cn9gr8am@hydra.unm.edu (j warsa) (01/29/91)
can anyone please tell me where i might find TETRIS for a non-windows ms-dos environment? i've looked at about 15 anonymous FTP sites and could only find versions for SUN workstations. please e-mail replies to cn9gr8a@hydra.unm.edu. thanks. jim warsa albuquerque
mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle {Nexus}) (01/30/91)
In article <1991Jan29.155539.16989@ariel.unm.edu> cn9gr8am@hydra.unm.edu (j warsa) writes: >can anyone please tell me where i might find TETRIS for >a non-windows ms-dos environment? i've looked at about You could try your local software vendor, or a mail-order place. Remember, TETRIS (tm) is a COMMERCIAL product produced by Spectrum Holobyte. You should NOT be able to find it on the net, as that would be illegal. -- Mike Castle (Nexus) S087891@UMRVMA.UMR.EDU (preferred) | ERROR: Invalid mcastle@mcs213k.cs.umr.edu (unix mail-YEACH!)| command 'HELP' Life is like a clock: You can work constantly, and be right | try 'HELP' all the time, or not work at all, and be right twice a day. |
erc@radon.berkeley.edu (Eric Ng) (01/30/91)
In article <2046@umriscc.isc.umr.edu> mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle {Nexus}) writes: > >In article <1991Jan29.155539.16989@ariel.unm.edu> cn9gr8am@hydra.unm.edu (j warsa) writes: >> >>can anyone please tell me where i might find TETRIS for >>a non-windows ms-dos environment? i've looked at about > >You could try your local software vendor, or a mail-order place. Remember, >TETRIS (tm) is a COMMERCIAL product produced by Spectrum Holobyte. You should >NOT be able to find it on the net, as that would be illegal. Or you could try ocf.berkeley.edu (128.32.184.254) if you have a fast (read: 8 MHz or faster, the faster the better) PC compatible and an EGA with 256k RAM or a VGA card. There you will find egaint. Egaint is a "free" (both free of charge and copylefted) product with some rather nice features. Also available is the full Turbo Pascal 5.5 source code. Two versions of egaint have appeared in cbip. This is not illegal. -eric -- eric ng 1906 milvia street berkeley california 94704 ..!uunet!irss.njit.edu!erc ...!ucbvax!radon!erc erc@irss.njit.edu erc@radon.berkeley.edu
steve@cad0 (Stephen Peter) (01/31/91)
In article <1991Jan29.155539.16989@ariel.unm.edu> cn9gr8am@hydra.unm.edu (j warsa) writes: >can anyone please tell me where i might find TETRIS for >a non-windows ms-dos environment? i've looked at about There is a version of TETRIS called Nyet, which is quite good (and non-windows). This should be available from most archives that include games. It is available from "garbo.uwasa.fi" in "pub/PC/games/nyet.zoo" (or similar) cheers, Stephen Peter steve@cad0.arch.unsw.oz.au School of Architecture, University of New South Wales, Australia
roelofs@nas.nasa.gov (Cave Newt) (01/31/91)
cn9gr8am@hydra.unm.edu (j warsa) writes: >>can anyone please tell me where i might find TETRIS for >>a non-windows ms-dos environment? i've looked at about mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle {Nexus}) writes: >You could try your local software vendor, or a mail-order place. Remember, >TETRIS (tm) is a COMMERCIAL product produced by Spectrum Holobyte. You should >NOT be able to find it on the net, as that would be illegal. The original Tetris was NOT commercial. It was also not very good, being a character-mode game (like Nyet) which had a nasty lag-time in cleaning out the keyboard buffer (unlike Nyet). But it *was* (is) the original, Soviet version on which all others, including the S. H. version, are based. Nyet can be found on grape.ecs.clarkson.edu, I think, but not the most recent version (1.2)--that doesn't seem to exist on any ftp site in the U.S. EGAINT on ocf is excellent and should be up to date, since Eric is both the guy who wrote it and one of the moderators(?) of ocf. Its top level is comparable in speed to Nyet's, despite using EGA graphics.
hv@uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama) (01/31/91)
In article <1046@usage.csd.unsw.oz.au> steve@cad0 (Stephen Peter) writes: > >In article <1991Jan29.155539.16989@ariel.unm.edu> cn9gr8am@hydra.unm.edu (j warsa) writes: >There is a version of TETRIS called Nyet, which is quite good (and >non-windows). This should be available from most archives that >include games. > >It is available from "garbo.uwasa.fi" >in "pub/PC/games/nyet.zoo" (or similar) Sorry, we don't have it anymore. We tend keep down the number of games packages here at garbo.uwasa.fi so we clean that directory every now and then. Games is not the main thing we consentrate here :) -- == Harri Valkama, University of Vaasa, Finland =========================== P.O. Box 700, 65101 VAASA, Finland (tel:+358 61 248426 fax:+358 61 248465) email: hv@garbo.uwasa.fi hv@nic.funet.fi hv@finfiles.bitnet Anon ftp garbo.uwasa.fi (128.214.12.37) & nic.funet.fi (128.214.6.100)
GERSHON@BARILVM.BITNET (Gershon Kunin) (02/05/91)
The Tetris-like game NYET can be found at many FTP-able sites. It needs no special hardware configuration. -Gershon