Tetris
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From: philo on 8 May 2010 19:21 On 05/08/2010 04:12 PM, Radiorick wrote: > What ever to the version of Tetris that came with windows? It seems to have > disappeared from every computer I've got. > > Tetris never came with any version of Windows but there was a BOWEP game pack that had it It's still one of my favorite games and if you do a Google search for BOWEP I'm sure it's still out there somewhere
From: Paul on 8 May 2010 20:18 philo wrote: > On 05/08/2010 04:12 PM, Radiorick wrote: >> What ever to the version of Tetris that came with windows? It seems >> to have >> disappeared from every computer I've got. >> > > > > > Tetris never came with any version of Windows > > but there was a BOWEP game pack that had it > > It's still one of my favorite games > > and if you do a Google search for BOWEP I'm sure it's still out there > somewhere Apparently there was one in here. Release date 1990. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Entertainment_Pack Paul
From: Nil on 8 May 2010 23:03 On 08 May 2010, "Radiorick" <rlmorrison(a)earthlink.net> wrote in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general: > What ever to the version of Tetris that came with windows? It > seems to have disappeared from every computer I've got. Windows has not included Tetris since Windows 3.1. If you want Tetris, you gotta go buy it or find a replacement. I like Crack Attack: <http://crackattack.org/> <http://aluminumangel.org/attack/>
From: philo on 9 May 2010 03:59 On 05/08/2010 10:03 PM, Nil wrote: > On 08 May 2010, "Radiorick"<rlmorrison(a)earthlink.net> wrote in > microsoft.public.windowsxp.general: > >> What ever to the version of Tetris that came with windows? It >> seems to have disappeared from every computer I've got. > > Windows has not included Tetris since Windows 3.1. If you want Tetris, > you gotta go buy it or find a replacement. > > I like Crack Attack: > > <http://crackattack.org/> > > <http://aluminumangel.org/attack/> I've used *all* non-server versions of Windows and Tetris did not come with any of them...but as mentioned it's included with BOWEP FWIW: The BOWEP games will run on Windows 3.0 and up I am sure many decent versions of Tetris can be found with a quick Google search
From: Nil on 9 May 2010 10:00
On 09 May 2010, philo <philo(a)privacy.net> wrote in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general: > I've used *all* non-server versions of Windows and Tetris did not > come with any of them...but as mentioned it's included with BOWEP So have I, and I'm fairly sure I remember Tetris being included with some early version of Windows, then it being removed. It might have even been in a beta, but not in the released version. At the time, the story was that there was a dispute between Microsoft and the guy who owned the name "Tetris". |