Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!kth!draken!tut!santra!lupu!jtp From: jtp@lupu.hut.fi (Jukka Tapani Partanen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Tetris Keywords: Tetris, console.device Message-ID: <20216@santra.UUCP> Date: 8 Mar 89 15:44:02 GMT References: Sender: news@santra.UUCP Reply-To: jtp@lupu.hut.fi (Jukka Tapani Partanen) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Lines: 31 In article as4e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Andrew Paul Stern) writes: >I have written a tetris game for the Amiga, and would be interested in >releasing it public domain. Is there already a PD tetris? I know there's >a commercial one. How would I go about submitting to Fred Fish or whoever? There are actually a number of Tetrixes around, but who would mind another one ... >Also, it only works with joystick. I can't seem to be able to read simple >keypresses in a customscreen & window. Any tips? Try attaching a console device to your custom window. The RKM's have a sufficient example... BTW, some suggestions about the Tetris game: don't use a custom screen (who wants such a memory- eater?), make the window re-sizable and draggable (it's kinda annoying to have it blocking a hot terminal session :-), attach some kind of priority setting option, and please try to make it multitask nicely. >-Drew BTW, I really like the Amiga! -- Jukka Partanen ! ! jtp@hupu.hut.fi Lintukorventie 2 J 107 ! Divan, Divan... ! jtp@otax.tky.hut.fi 02660 Espoo ! Weisst du wer ich bin? ! t36324t@puukko.hut.fi puh: (90) 546064 ! ! guru@amiga.my.net