VT52 emulator (was: Fw: Still Falling for Tetris, 25 Years After Its Birth ) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

24 Jun 2009

Cool video. Thanks for the link :)

Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk

--- On Sat, 13/6/09, Alexander Voropay <alec at sensi.org> wrote:

From: Alexander Voropay <alec at sensi.org>
Subject: Re: VT52 emulator (was: Fw: Still Falling for Tetris, 25 Years After  Its Birth
)
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
Date: Saturday, 13 June, 2009, 9:08 PM

2009/6/4 Alexander Voropay <alec at sensi.org>:

...
 >> The 0177 character was a 6x8 block.
>
> The VT52 ignored 0177 on receipt, so this game won't work on any decent
> VT52 emulator. You'd have to guess where the pieces were. :-) 
Sergei Frolov made a video playing this TETRIS game:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0gAgQQHFcQ

Rather bad VTY/CAM interference, nice keyboard "clicks" :)

Look at 2:25, the russian DVK (a PDP-11 clone) boots.

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