bevis@EE.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (Jeff Bevis) (04/08/90)
In article <1317@taurus.BITNET>, <asaph%math.tau.ac.il@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> writes: > >P.S. If anybody out there has any inkling as to legal matters, such as > Blockout's copyright's effect on us, we would also appreciate a > note. > I just read something relevent to this in the latest AmigaWhirled: It seems the original creator of Tetris has already created (perhaps prior to Blockout) a 3D version dubbed "welltris" which is marketed through Spectrum Holobyte. I wonder how California Dreams feels about that? I wonder how Spectrum Holobyte feels. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Life is like a mop..." -- Stanley Spudowski, UHF ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Bevis Purdue Univeristy School of Electrical Engineering bevis@en.ecn.purdue.edu Give me Amiga or nothing at all. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
lfk@key.COM (Lynn Kerby) (04/10/90)
In article <9004072341.AA19070@en.ecn.purdue.edu> bevis@EE.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (Jeff Bevis) writes: >I just read something relevent to this in the latest AmigaWhirled: It seems >the original creator of Tetris has already created (perhaps prior to Blockout) >a 3D version dubbed "welltris" which is marketed through Spectrum Holobyte. >I wonder how California Dreams feels about that? I wonder how Spectrum >Holobyte feels. I saw Welltris running on a PC a while back, but it is not even close to the same type of game as Blockout. Welltris seems to be a version of tetris that is played on 4 walls and a floor simultaneously. The game is does *not* use 3d block shapes like Blockout, instead the pieces fall down the walls and on to the floor of the pit. I was very disappointed with Welltris (esp. after playing Blockout for a while). California Dreams may not like it much, but Spectrum Holobyte has nothing like it. > >Jeff Bevis Purdue Univeristy School of Electrical Engineering >bevis@en.ecn.purdue.edu Give me Amiga or nothing at all. >------------------------------------------------------------------------------