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From: leue@galen.crd.ge.com (Bill Leue)
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Subject: Re: Tetris for the Mac
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Date: 10 Apr 91 15:56:51 GMT
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In article <1991Apr10.062806.11518@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> brian@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Brian Hoffman) writes:
>Ok, here's the situation:
>
>The guy who lives next door to me has a Mac.  We play alot of Spectrum
>Holobyte's Tetris.  I always kick his butt.  I had the top scores (near
>10,000) and he never even got close.
>
>Today, I noticed that his girlfriend was unusually enthusiastic about showing
>me the high scores on Tetris.  It seems that they have figured a way to
>score several thousand points more than any previous games.
>
>How did they do it?  I know they didn't get that much better overnight.

I don't know how they did it, but here's how you can generate an arbitrarily
high score:  get one of the Mac speed-control INIT's (Speed Chopper works
well) and slow down the Mac to about 15% of its standard speed.  Given
enough time, even your great-grandmother could score 1,000,000 with
this setup!  (Kind of takes the fun out of it, though :-))

-Bill Leue
leue@crd.ge.com