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From: maffett@uther.CS.ORST.EDU (Tim Maffett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: The ~Real~ Tetris
Keywords: mirrorsoft?
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Date: 21 Sep 90 22:16:24 GMT
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In article <1990Sep19.035656.27716@uncecs.edu> kms@uncecs.edu (Ken Steele) writes:
>
>There was much discussion a while back about the
>"real" Tetris (as distributed by Spectrum Holobyte) and
>all of those other insidious Tetris clones that were
>infringing on Spectrum Holobytes territory.
>
>A friend came by the other day to show me a copy of the
>commercial tetris that he had.  It was from MirrorSoft,
>not Spectrum Holobyte.

   MirrorSoft == Spectrum Holobyte.
They are both owned by Sir Robert Maxwell (captian bob), 
ie. Maxwell Communications.

These are the people (maxwell) that screwed the russian inventor out
of most of his royalties (they say hes received ~800 american dollars so far).