Old Dos Programs

From: Ron Hudson <ron.hudson_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: Wed Dec 1 10:56:48 2004

On Dec 1, 2004, at 4:33 AM, Dr. Ido wrote:

> At 10:27 PM 11/30/04 -0500, you wrote:
>>> anyone have the DOS version of Empire, Nethack (an older version that
>>> does not need dpmi), I had a DOS version of tetris too (using regular
>>> characters in 40 char mode) so I am looking for that too.
>
> There were at least a couple of versions of tetris that ran in text
> mode.
>> 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.
>
> I should have an old enough version of Nethack somewhere. I remember
> it
> included instructions for running it on non-PC MS-DOS machines and a
> premade config file for DEC Rainbows. I got it running on a Wang
> Professional, but I usually played it on a PC.

That would be awsome! I found (late last night) two console versions
of tetris, one is the one I remember, the other is new. Want copies?
Received on Wed Dec 01 2004 - 10:56:48 GMT