From uknet!csv.warwick.ac.uk!cs.nott.ac.uk!pjl Fri Feb 28 18:16:45 1992 Return-Path: Received: from uknet.UUCP by ssl.co.uk (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA03257; Fri, 28 Feb 92 18:16:45 GMT Received: from csv.warwick.ac.uk by eros.uknet.ac.uk via JANET with NIFTP (PP) id <12617-0@eros.uknet.ac.uk>; Fri, 28 Feb 1992 15:51:18 +0000 Received: from diamond.dcs.warwick.ac.uk by nettle.csv.warwick.ac.uk with SMTP; Fri, 28 Feb 1992 15:48:36 GMT Received: from clover.csv.warwick.ac.uk by diamond.dcs.warwick.ac.uk; Fri, 28 Feb 1992 15:48:42 GMT Message-Id: <16917.199202281548@clover.csv.warwick.ac.uk> Received: from cs.nott.ac.uk by clover.csv.warwick.ac.uk with ; Fri, 28 Feb 1992 15:48:24 GMT Received: from robin.cs.nott.ac.uk by marian.Cs.Nott.AC.UK id aa15955; 28 Feb 92 15:48 GMT To: mirk@dcs.warwick.ac.uk Cc: pjl@cs.nott.ac.uk Subject: TETRIS Date: Fri, 28 Feb 92 15:48:04 +0000 From: Pete Latus Status: R Dear "mirk" I have recently come into possession of your tetris game and must therefore write to let you know how happy it makes me. I love tetris and can think of no better way of avoiding the realities of my chemistry lecture course other than indulging in a good old game of tetris. Cheers! Pete Latus From mauvl@csv.warwick.ac.uk Tue Nov 2 00:37:24 1993 Return-Path: From: Nath Subject: thanks To: mirk@csv.warwick.ac.uk Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 00:37:24 +0000 (GMT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 106 thanks for writing Tetris, I can waste many a useful hour playing it instead of doing any sort of work!! From en2bidm@staffordshire.ac.uk Fri Jan 21 16:14:45 1994 Return-Path: Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 17:34:16 +0100 From: en2bidm@staffordshire.ac.uk (WAR HAS NEVER BEEN SO MUCH FUN...) To: mirk@csv.warwick.ac.uk Subject: Tetris X-Vms-To: SMTP%"mirk@warwick.ac.uk@bs38" We have you tetris for terminal game on one of our ultrix machine.. It's good fun but the version running is dated Friday may 26 1989 ... have you done any other version since ??? If so, have you added the real Tetris score (more points for double,triple and tetrises), the two rotation buttons and the releasable fall button (stops falling if you stop pressing it..) This would make the game a lot better... If you haven't implemented that, is it possible to get the source code of the game to implement it ourselves ? I'd be glad to send you the upgraded source code back if you are interested... Didier MALENFANT/HT3F student at staffs uni. From uknet!csv.warwick.ac.uk!phuck Sat May 21 07:09:13 1994 Return-Path: From: Mr D T Anstey Subject: tt To: mirk@csv.warwick.ac.uk Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 22:05:56 +0100 (BST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 69 I think your game is shit. The graphics are useless and so are you. From uknet!bjesomar.srce.hr!alex Wed Jan 11 18:22:31 1995 Return-Path: From: alex@bjesomar.srce.hr (Aleksandar Milivojevic) Subject: Tetris To: mirk@dcs.warwick.ac.uk Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 16:51:07 +0100 (NFT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 480 Hi I just played your tetris for terminals on an Linux box. I wonder, if source is available, becose I would like to install it on Ultrix (DEC 5000) and AIX (IBM RS 6000). If source is not available, do you have binaries for these two, or any other platform? Alex -- CAHN'S AXIOM: | Aleksandar Milivojevic | mail: Jakova Gotovca 5 When all else fails, | ---------------------- | 54520 Slatina read the instructions. | e-mail: alex@srce.hr | Croatia From uknet!sco.com!harveyt Thu Dec 21 12:24:48 1995 Return-Path: X-Uri: X-Face: "Ht#9&2KEo;v0Jn!m[7V}D}F5>{KUiNw Hi Mike (and Fiona), Did you know that "tt" is supplied on the latest Linux distribution! (Fiona: Linux is a free version of Unix -- the kernel (difficult bit) written by Linus Torvald -- hence the pun on Unix -> Linux, the rest by just about anyone on the Internet who wants to write code) Hows that for fame and fortune! Cunning. The guy who ported it (mostly trivial) added an extra readme file, included below. Hoopy Christmas items, Harvey (Still no sign of Defender et. al. Chuuuueeeeze!) PS. The bug in the uucp documentation -- I read the latest documentation and it all now seems fine and dandy. You've probably got version "3.2.0" or something -- we should now a days get to review technical documentation at least once before printing. In Theory. > Tetris for Terminals - "tt" - Written by Mike Taylor > ==================================================== > > The ported to Linux. Hey Linus, mondo O/S! > > We all know that a computer isn't worth the silicon it's made of unless > it you can play Tetris on it. So, here it is, after two long, hard days > of work. Actually, it only needed two defines and three procedures and > I'm not even sure why I had to put two of those procedures in there. It > looks to me as though those two are already in GCC 2.1. The third is > usleep. You should just be able to do a make install and have it work. > > If you do thing manually, that is with a plane make, you will need to > make your /usr/local/etc directory read-writeable by all because that is > where the high score and lock files are kept. If you get an Open(2) error > or "Save-score failure" it is because this hasn't been done. If you want > to change these, edit lines 34-35 of tt.h. Also in game.h, in lines 14-21 > you can change the key assignments, ie. right, left, drop. > > That's about it for what I have to say. I can be reached on the InterNet > as "bairstow@vivaldi.psu.edu" or "sab139@psuvm.psu.edu" and on BitNet as > "sab139 AT psuvm." I also read comp.os.linux so if you post something > there I should catch it. > > -- Steve Bairstow From fst@jones Mon Jun 2 13:13:23 1997 Return-Path: Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 13:13:21 +0100 From: fst@jones (Frank Taylor) To: all@jones Subject: Famous software Status: R I installed mini-linux (a Linux distribution for DOS machines that comes on just 4 floppy disks... includes X and TCP/IP (PPP, SLIP and PLIP)) on my laptop a few days ago. Poking around the games directory I found tt: Tetris for Terminals by a certain Mike Taylor from Warwick University... Ain't the world small place. Frank. From madhu@quickmonkey.com Wed Dec 6 19:10:11 2000 Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 11:09:10 -0800 From: MADHU To: mike@tecc.co.uk Subject: tetris fan mail X-Url: http://www.meer.net/~enometh Reply-to: madhu@quickmonkey.com helu, i still play your tetris for terminals (since 96), preferring it over emacs tetris, or just about any other (havent gotten any better though). I havent needed to change much source except minimally for the terminal stuff on new boxes. wonder if you'd ever made another release. my timestamps still show 1992. Thanks. Regards madhu :> -- You have new mail From madhu@quickmonkey.com Thu Feb 22 01:11:03 2001 MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.13.7 - "Awazu") Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 17:12:29 -0800 From: MADHU To: mike@tecc.co.uk Subject: cygwin + tt X-Url: http://www.meer.net/~enometh/ Reply-to: madhu@quickmonkey.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII helu, the current release of cygwin compiles tetris (just commented out extern WINDOW *stdscr; in screen.c), and now I can play at the dosprompt. just thought i should let you know :> regards, madhu From eden_c@rad.co.il Thu Jan 31 08:57:05 2002 MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Eden Cohen To: "'mike@miketaylor.org.uk'" Subject: tt (tetris) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 19:36:50 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Length: 367 Hi, I am in a team working on an embedded real-time communications box. It has a serial interface for configuration using a terminal. So I thought it would be nice if the, maybe, bored technician on site could play a little game on the terminal. So I looked for tetris source code and found your stuff. Is it OK for me to port it and use freely ? Thanks, Eden. From mike Thu Jan 31 08:58:47 +0000 2002 From: Mike Taylor To: eden_c@rad.co.il In-reply-to: <21FECF4891C9D311859D00508B8BB564C64A3B@exrad1.rad.co.il> (message from Eden Cohen on Wed, 30 Jan 2002 19:36:50 +0200) Subject: Re: tt (tetris) References: <21FECF4891C9D311859D00508B8BB564C64A3B@exrad1.rad.co.il> > Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 19:36:50 +0200 > From: Eden Cohen > > Hi, Hi. > I am in a team working on an embedded real-time communications box. > It has a serial interface for configuration using a terminal. So I > thought it would be nice if the, maybe, bored technician on site > could play a little game on the terminal. > > So I looked for tetris source code and found your stuff. > > Is it OK for me to port it and use freely ? Hell, YES! That would be great! I'd love to see something that exotic happining to my humble little thirteen-year-old game! Please let me know how it goes. _/|_ _______________________________________________________________ /o ) \/ Mike Taylor www.miketaylor.org.uk )_v__/\ "You couldn't stamp 'PROPERTY OF THE ZOO' on a great big lion!" / "They do them when they're still small." / "What happens when they moult?" / "Lions don't moult." / "Ah, but penguins do! There, I've run rings around you logically!" -- Monty Python. From eden_c@rad.com Mon Jun 09 10:04:46 2003 MIME-Version: 1.0 x-mimeole: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6375.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: RE: Tetris in Embedded System Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 08:42:26 +0300 X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Tetris in Embedded System Thread-Index: AcMlIksTsG+ehmvqRUyE/sttT6mRQQJJxFgg From: "Eden Cohen" To: "Mike Taylor" X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests= version=2.20 X-Spam-Level: Hi Mike, I did start doing the porting to our platform, and some of it actually worked. But I didn't get to finish it because management are a bit uptight about including it in software going to customers (even though I assured them it would be hidden and could only be activated by a code). Thanks anyway, Eden Cohen. -----Original Message----- From: Mike Taylor [mailto:mike@indexdata.com] Sent: Wed, May 28, 2003 6:06 PM To: Eden Cohen Subject: Tetris in Embedded System Hi Eden, Sixteen months ago, you asked whether it would be OK to port my tetris-for-serial-terminals implementation "tt" onto the embedded real-time system you were working on (and of course I said yes!) I wonder whether anything ever came of that? (Old messages attached below) _/|_ _______________________________________________________________ /o ) \/ Mike Taylor http://www.miketaylor.org.uk )_v__/\ It's a million-to-one chance -- but it might just work. -- >From eden_c@rad.co.il Thu Jan 31 08:57:05 2002 MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Eden Cohen To: "'mike@miketaylor.org.uk'" Subject: tt (tetris) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 19:36:50 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Length: 367 Hi, I am in a team working on an embedded real-time communications box. It has a serial interface for configuration using a terminal. So I thought it would be nice if the, maybe, bored technician on site could play a little game on the terminal. So I looked for tetris source code and found your stuff. Is it OK for me to port it and use freely ? Thanks, Eden. >From mike Thu Jan 31 08:58:47 +0000 2002 From: Mike Taylor To: eden_c@rad.co.il In-reply-to: <21FECF4891C9D311859D00508B8BB564C64A3B@exrad1.rad.co.il> (message from Eden Cohen on Wed, 30 Jan 2002 19:36:50 +0200) Subject: Re: tt (tetris) References: <21FECF4891C9D311859D00508B8BB564C64A3B@exrad1.rad.co.il> > Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 19:36:50 +0200 > From: Eden Cohen > > Hi, Hi. > I am in a team working on an embedded real-time communications box. > It has a serial interface for configuration using a terminal. So I > thought it would be nice if the, maybe, bored technician on site > could play a little game on the terminal. > > So I looked for tetris source code and found your stuff. > > Is it OK for me to port it and use freely ? Hell, YES! That would be great! I'd love to see something that exotic happining to my humble little thirteen-year-old game! Please let me know how it goes. _/|_ _______________________________________________________________ /o ) \/ Mike Taylor www.miketaylor.org.uk )_v__/\ "You couldn't stamp 'PROPERTY OF THE ZOO' on a great big lion!" / "They do them when they're still small." / "What happens when they moult?" / "Lions don't moult." / "Ah, but penguins do! There, I've run rings around you logically!" -- Monty Python. From mike Wed Dec 15 21:33:19 2004 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Envelope-to: mike@miketaylor.org.uk Delivery-date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 21:21:22 +0100 Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 22:20:52 +0200 From: Aleksandr Koltsoff To: mike@miketaylor.org.uk Subject: tt (missed it all these years) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: Aleksandr Koltsoff X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on bagel.indexdata.dk X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.0 X-Spam-Level: Hello Just wanted to drop a thank you note for those countless hours I spent on my first Linux way back in 1995 with slackware (don't remember the release version) playing tt. Decided to hunt the software and google found it pretty well, will put it into an administration menu for our network engineers ASAP :-). Without tt my first years in Linux would have been oh so much bleaker :-). ak.