Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!meaddata!johnt From: johnt@meaddata.com (John Townsend) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: ML tetris (and Hextris) Message-ID: <4115@meaddata.meaddata.com> Date: 29 Apr 91 16:42:33 GMT References: <1991Apr15.061548.12826@colorado.edu> <3982@meaddata.meaddata.com> <4017@meaddata.meaddata.com> Sender: usenet@meaddata.com Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH Lines: 69 In article , bqt@cia.docs.uu.se (Johnny Billquist) writes: |> In <4017@meaddata.meaddata.com> johnt@meaddata.com (John Townsend) writes: |> > There are |> >actually ten different pieces, and their new, improved, bandwidth-wasting |> >graphical representations are: |> |> [some pieces deleted...] |> > __ __ |> > / \__ / \ |> > \__/ \ \__/ |> > / \__/ __/ \ |> > \__/ / \__/ |> > / \ \__/ \ |> > \__/ \__/ |> |> These should be (as many might suspect...) |> |> __ __ |> / \__ __/ \ |> \__/ \ / \__/ |> / \__/ \__/ \ |> \__/ \__/ |> / \ / \ |> \__/ \__/ |> You are correct here. I noticed that shortly after posting it (as usual), but didn't feel like following up on it, especially since I can't seem to get it right! Thanks for tying up this loose end! You also wrote: |> |> The border was drawn a little wrong. |> It was drawn like this: |> |> > \__/ / \ |> > / \__ __ __ __ __ \__/ |> > \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \ |> > \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ |> > \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ |> |> It should be looking like this in the bottom: |> |> \__/ \__/ |> / \__ __ __ __ __ __/ \ |> \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ |> \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ |> \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ |> |> Also, it should probably be a few rows wider... Here, however, I must disagree. If there's one thing I remember about the Hextris game (which I played under X-Windows on a Sun 3), it was that the two lower corners of the play area were not symmetrical. Also, every implementa- tion of Tetris that I have seen to date has a play area ten blocks wide, not eleven, as yours is. I agree that it would be neater to have an odd number of columns, however. But what the heck? Whoever writes this is entitled to a little artistic license. -- John Townsend Internet: johnt@meaddata.com c/o Mead Data Central UUCP: ...!uunet!meaddata!skibum!johnt P.O. Box 933 Telephone: (513) 865-7250 Dayton, Ohio, 45401