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From: mbk@hpsemc.HP.COM (Miles Kehoe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Anyone seen the game Tetris?
Message-ID: <620019@hpsemc.HP.COM>
Date: 3 Mar 89 19:32:29 GMT
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Organization: HP Technology Access Center, Cupertino, CA
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re: Tetris on the PC and Mac:

1. Isn't it funny that a system which cannot legally be sold in
   Soviet block countries has a popular game originally written
   in Russia for it?  

2. The IBM version has a nice feature I have not found on the
   mac version: the 'boss key'.  At the press of the ESC key,
   your screen turns into a DOS prompt or a Lotus style spread
   sheet.  

3. The PC version has no music, which is part of the calming
   effect I find when playing the Mac version.

4. I have a copy of an X.11 version of a Tetris-like game
   somewhere in my directory. I'll see if I can find it and
    put it somewhere public.

5. I've mused with the idea that this may be a way to reduce
   the effectiveness of US programmers everywhere - but then
   decided that the last thing the Soviets want is less effective
   software engineers here - how else would they get any work
   done without code?

mbk