Re: Best version of tetris?

1997-11-01 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, A year ago, when I still used Slackware, I had a 'tetris for terminals', which was really a program that could be used on any keyboard-and-screen terminal. Only 'letter' keys (and maybe Space and Enter, I'm not sure) were used and the output

Re: Best version of tetris?

1997-10-31 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Oct 30, 1997 at 05:29:47PM +0100, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: A year ago, when I still used Slackware, I had a 'tetris for terminals', which was really a program that could be used on any keyboard-and-screen terminal. Only 'letter' keys (and maybe Space and Enter, I'm not sure) were used

Best version of tetris?

1997-10-30 Thread Sam Ockman
I'm working on a standard set of packages that can be easily installed for Debian, and want to pick one of the tetrises (or is it tetrii) to include in the load...what is everyone's favorite tetris version? Thanks Sam -- VA Research Linux Workstations | The World's Best Linux Computers

Re: Best version of tetris?

1997-10-30 Thread Alex Yukhimets
I'm working on a standard set of packages that can be easily installed for Debian, and want to pick one of the tetrises (or is it tetrii) to include in the load...what is everyone's favorite tetris version? Thanks Sam Hi. The best tetris version *for console* I found is vga-tetris

Re: Best version of tetris?

1997-10-30 Thread Sam Ockman
of packages that can be easily installed for Debian, and want to pick one of the tetrises (or is it tetrii) to include in the load...what is everyone's favorite tetris version? Thanks Sam Hi. The best tetris version *for console* I found is vga-tetris. There is a link to it from

Re: Best version of tetris?

1997-10-30 Thread Will Lowe
On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Sam Ockman wrote: Everything has to come from a package in main stable Debian though...is this? I'm also mainly looking for an X-version tetris, although I'm not opposed to also having a console/vga tetris. Many of the previously available tetris packages are probably

Re: Best version of tetris?

1997-10-30 Thread Joey Hess
Will Lowe wrote: Many of the previously available tetris packages are probably going to be dropped from debian, as the name tetris is copywritten, and the authors of several tetris clones are pulling their packages until they figure out the copyright issues. Really, have you heard from any

Re: Best version of tetris?

1997-10-30 Thread Will Lowe
On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Joey Hess wrote: Really, have you heard from any more than the author of xtetris? I maintain most of the tetris packages and haven't heard of it. No, but I thought that the discussion here ended with deciding to pull the packages from master because the author decided to

Re: Best version of tetris?

1997-10-30 Thread Joey Hess
Will Lowe wrote: No, but I thought that the discussion here ended with deciding to pull the packages from master because the author decided to retract the releases until he figured out what to do about copywrites. You're right, but it was package, singular. None of the other packages have

Re: Best version of tetris?

1997-10-30 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
Hi, A year ago, when I still used Slackware, I had a 'tetris for terminals', which was really a program that could be used on any keyboard-and-screen terminal. Only 'letter' keys (and maybe Space and Enter, I'm not sure) were used and the output was all ASCII. This program was part of the

Re: Best version of tetris?

1997-10-30 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: : A year ago, when I still used Slackware, I had a 'tetris for terminals', : which was really a program that could be used on any keyboard-and-screen : terminal. Only 'letter' keys (and maybe Space and Enter, I'm not sure) : were used and the output

Re: Best version of tetris?

1997-10-30 Thread Joey Hess
Remco Blaakmeer wrote: A year ago, when I still used Slackware, I had a 'tetris for terminals', It's not exactly the same, but the tetris-bsd in bsdgames is very similar to what you're looking for. There is also the netris package, which is a multiplayer text tetris. -- see shy jo -- TO

Re: Best version of tetris?

1997-10-30 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote: On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: : A year ago, when I still used Slackware, I had a 'tetris for terminals', : which was really a program that could be used on any keyboard-and-screen : terminal. Only 'letter' keys (and maybe Space

Re: Best version of tetris?

1997-10-30 Thread Paul Miller
On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Sam Ockman wrote: I'm working on a standard set of packages that can be easily installed for Debian, and want to pick one of the tetrises (or is it tetrii) to include in the load...what is everyone's favorite tetris version? ktetris (ftp.kde.org) is very nice and it