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From: roelofs@nas.nasa.gov (Cave Newt)
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Subject: Re: WANTED: TETRIS in non-WINDOWS executable form
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Date: 31 Jan 91 04:14:46 GMT
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cn9gr8am@hydra.unm.edu (j warsa) writes:

>>can anyone please tell me where i might find TETRIS for
>>a non-windows ms-dos environment? i've looked at about

mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle {Nexus}) writes:

>You could try your local software vendor, or a mail-order place.  Remember, 
>TETRIS (tm) is a COMMERCIAL product produced by Spectrum Holobyte.  You should
>NOT be able to find it on the net, as that would be illegal. 

The original Tetris was NOT commercial.  It was also not very good, being
a character-mode game (like Nyet) which had a nasty lag-time in cleaning out 
the keyboard buffer (unlike Nyet).  But it *was* (is) the original, Soviet
version on which all others, including the S. H. version, are based.

Nyet can be found on grape.ecs.clarkson.edu, I think, but not the most 
recent version (1.2)--that doesn't seem to exist on any ftp site in the 
U.S.  EGAINT on ocf is excellent and should be up to date, since Eric is
both the guy who wrote it and one of the moderators(?) of ocf.  Its top 
level is comparable in speed to Nyet's, despite using EGA graphics.