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From: sam7@quads.uchicago.edu (Stuart Marquis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Looking for Tetris
Keywords: games on the cube
Message-ID: <1991Feb12.214558.14706@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 12 Feb 91 21:45:58 GMT
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Seems to me that a long time ago, couple of years now, I was playing around
with the demo NeXT in the campus computation center, and they had a really
nice version of Tetris.  I've seen lots of versions of Tetris at lots of the
ftp sites, but none like this first one.  The entire game was... configurable.

You could choose _block-size_, and level, and keyboard control of course, and
I think also the hieghth and width of the playing-box, in terms of blocks.

The only version I can find these days has none of these inhancements, and 
although you can select a start-level, it does not automatically progress
in difficulty.

Sure was fun, playing with those mongo blocks, about an inch across!
Oh, and it also showed off the machine's capabilities pretty nicely, too.
You could make the falling blocks as big or as tiny as you wanted, and they'd
still fall fast and smooth - instantaneous keyboard response and screen
updates.

Anywhere this version can be ftp'd?
Anywhere this version can be, gasp, bought?

Thanks,
Stuart

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