Re: ITP: tetris -- a clone of the original tetris

[Michael Banck <mbanck@gmx.net>]

> > > A couple of years ago I got fed up with the lack of tetris games for Linux
> > > that closely resembled the original tetris (The one written by Alexey
> > > Pajitnov, Dmitry Pavlovsky, and Vadim Gerasimov), so I wrote one.
> > 
> > I don't see how this is identical:
> 
> I said 'closely resemble', not identical (: If it we're identical it would
> run in DOS and would be the same size, same author, etc.

> > 1. Once you press space, the brick drops down immeadiatly, in the
> > orginal it stops rushing down once you release 'down'.
> 
> No, that is incorrect. You can find the original tetris here in case you
> don't remember (It's the home page of one of the authors).
> 
> http://vadim.www.media.mit.edu/Tetris.htm

OK. I did not know the PC version was _that_ different from the GameBoy
one. I must say, I like the GameBoy version much more...

Michael