s893971@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Volksie Wagen.) (05/29/91)
Does anyone know where I can get Tetris for the mac? Adrian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ Two seals walk into a club. s893971@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby) (05/29/91)
In article <1991May29.054427.15381@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> s893971@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Volksie Wagen.) writes: >Does anyone know where I can get Tetris for the mac? Spectrum Holobyte markets the 'official' Tetris for the Macintosh. However, there are a number of shareware/freeware knock-offs of Tetris, some of them not half bad. I have seen "Hextris", "Weslyan Tetris", and one other who's name I don't recall. -- | Paul E. Jacoby, 3M Company, 3M Center, 235-3F-27 | | Maplewood, MN 55144-1000 .-----------------------------------| | => pejacoby@3m.com | I am _not_ the editor of | | (612) 737-3211 | the Radio Times. |
Kevin.J.Feury@dartmouth.edu (Kevin J. Feury) (06/01/91)
In article <1991May29.054427.15381@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> s893971@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Volksie Wagen.) writes: > Does anyone know where I can get Tetris for the mac? i've got a version of Tetris, a version of Hextris, and a version of Welltris for mac that you might be interested in. post back or e-mail me: nicko@mac.dartmouth.edu if you're interested -kevin --------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------- So, Understand, Don't spend your time always searching For those Wasted Years, Face up, Make your stand, And realize you're living In the Golden Years... God give me the answer to my life, God give me the answer to my dreams, God give me the answer to my prayers, God give me the answer to my being... 6666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666
s893971@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Volksie Wagen.) (06/05/91)
Sorry...but someone sent me a couple of __tris files but they didnot get through and I have lost their address. Could they please resend them to me? Thanks! Adrian. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ Two seals walk into a club. s893971@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
CAH0@bunny.gte.com (Chuck Hoffman) (06/05/91)
Tetris on the Mac is available from Spectrum Holobyte. Works great. Chuck Hoffman, GTE Laboratories, Inc. | I'm not sure why we're here, cah0@bunny.gte.com | but I am sure that while we're Telephone (U.S.A.) 617-466-2131 | here, we're supposed to help GTE VoiceNet: 679-2131 | each other. GTE Telemail: C.HOFFMAN |
dam@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (David Morning) (06/11/91)
Chuck.Hoffman@f98.n250.z1.FidoNet.Org (Chuck Hoffman) writes: >Tetris on the Mac is available from Spectrum Holobyte. Works great. As an alternative Catch the Buzz is a rather neat Shareware implementation of tetris but with an additional problem. Available ftp from most good archives. Check it out. Dave (No connection with whoever wrote it)
dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) (06/12/91)
In article <1991Jun11.111047.7375@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> dam@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (David Morning) writes: > Chuck.Hoffman@f98.n250.z1.FidoNet.Org (Chuck Hoffman) writes: > > > >Tetris on the Mac is available from Spectrum Holobyte. Works great. > > As an alternative Catch the Buzz is a rather neat Shareware implementation > of tetris but with an additional problem. Available ftp from most good > archives. Check it out. > You might alse try Wesleyan Tetris; available from the same sources. My spokesmen tell me it is very good (although a bit silly at times). Addicting is the word. -- dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland dik@cwi.nl
dauter@terminator.cc.umich.edu (Michael Dautermann) (06/13/91)
In article <3684@charon.cwi.nl> dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes: >In article <1991Jun11.111047.7375@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> dam@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (David Morning) writes: > > >You might alse try Wesleyan Tetris; available from the same sources. My >spokesmen tell me it is very good (although a bit silly at times). >Addicting is the word. Wesleyan Tetris USED to be available from mac.archives.umich.edu... not anymore, however. We received a message from Robert Cook, the author, saying verbatim: "This game is gonna be commercial, I never meant for it to be released". I trashed our copies immediately. Robert did a good job with the game and I was pretty p.o.'ed that somebody sent it to the archive as "freeware", when it was actually too polished to really be free. I hope he re-releases it as shareware (with appropriate notices)... why not ask him.. his address is: RCOOK@eagle.wesleyan.edu If you have a copy.. welllll.. I hope that you would get a real version of Wesleyan Tetris and delete the one you got from our site. Sigh.... Michael... -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Mike @ ccs.itd.umich.edu ( ( ( ( (( in stereo )) ) ) ) ) Mike Dautermann - U-M Ann Arbor, Dearborn and the WORLD!!
ingemar@isy.liu.se (Ingemar Ragnemalm) (06/13/91)
dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes: >In article <1991Jun11.111047.7375@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> dam@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (David Morning) writes: > > Chuck.Hoffman@f98.n250.z1.FidoNet.Org (Chuck Hoffman) writes: > > >Tetris on the Mac is available from Spectrum Holobyte. Works great. > > > > As an alternative Catch the Buzz is a rather neat Shareware implementation > > of tetris but with an additional problem. Available ftp from most good > > archives. Check it out. > > >You might alse try Wesleyan Tetris; available from the same sources. My >spokesmen tell me it is very good (although a bit silly at times). >Addicting is the word. >-- >dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland >dik@cwi.nl There are *lots* of Tetrisoids out there by now; perhaps it is time to try to make a list of them. (I know it is futile, but...) If we stay with the 2D games, and primarily the SW/PD ones: A list (and my own rating) of some Tetris-like games for the Mac: ================================================================= Tetris by Spectrum Holobyte. B/W version, Color version, DA version. Very polished. Music, sounds, color version is 256 colors. Commercial. ***** Tetrix. Plain tetrisoid. Simple but ok. Worth the space on the disk. Poor graphics, but it feels appropriate. Appears to be freeware. *** Catch the Buzz. Well... different. More luck than skill. Gives silly comments in the window title. Lots of flicker. Shareware. ** Wesleyan Tetris. Nice graphics. Makes rude sounds for every piece you drop; very annoying. Bombs frequently. Some features looked promising, but when it just doesn't work... Very large due to all the sounds. Is it shareware? Don't know: it bombs when I try to pull down the apple menu. * Hextris. Hexagonal. Lacks some features, like high scores. Decent graphics. Shareware. ** Bikaka. Hexagonal the other way around. Freeware. (No rating. I refuse to rate my own game.) Cumulonimbus. One of the tetrisoids that believe that the screen should be blanked once in a while. Lots of settings. Simple graphics, looks poor on B/W screen. 1$ Begware. ** Columns. Match patterns rather than fill lines. Nice. Shareware. **** The ratings mean something like: * = Poor. Trash it. ** = OK, but needs some improvements. *** = Good. **** = Addicting. ***** = Excellent. DISCLAIMER: I havn't played all of these games all that much, so some statements might be made on loose grounds, especially concerning the games that I don't like. If I rated your game low, please don't get mad. There was something I didn't like about it. How about improving it? -- Ingemar Ragnemalm Dept. of Electrical Engineering ...!uunet!mcvax!enea!rainier!ingemar .. University of Linkoping, Sweden ingemar@isy.liu.se
stanger@otago.ac.nz (Nigel Stanger) (06/14/91)
In article <ingemar.676803775@stuart>, ingemar@isy.liu.se (Ingemar Ragnemalm) writes: > dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes: > > There are *lots* of Tetrisoids out there by now; perhaps it is time to try to > make a list of them. (I know it is futile, but...) > If we stay with the 2D games, and primarily the SW/PD ones: > > A list (and my own rating) of some Tetris-like games for the Mac: > ================================================================= [ list omitted ] Add to this variant written locally. It's called Quadra, and is a two-player version of Tetris (sort-of). It's not an action game - it's more like chess in a lot of ways. There's a lot of strategy involved. Has anyone out there actually come across this game in the wide world, or has it never left this university? -- See ya Nigel. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Nigel Stanger, Internet: stanger@otago.ac.nz c/o University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Phone: +64 3 479-8179 Dunedin, NEW ZEALAND. Fax: +64 3 479-8311 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "If I had a quote, I'd be wearing it." -- Bob Dylan ----------------------------------------------------------------------