5 Dec
2004
5 Dec
'04
8:58 a.m.
Dr. Ido wrote:
There were at least a couple of versions of tetris
that ran in text mode.
The original Tetris was 40-column text mode, MS-DOS. underdogs should have it
(www.the-underdogs.org).
--
Jim Leonard (trixter(a)oldskool.org) http://www.oldskool.org/
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From memory the Spectrum Holobyte release included
a tiny text mode version
(~8kb .com file) along with the graphic version. The
others were probably
PD/shareware and weren't
actually called tetris.