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[Joe Ferraro]

JOSHUA is a TOPS20 box... for which I don't think a port of tetris exists :)


On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote:
Hello!
Interesting. No machines playing this game of yours Sampsa named JOSHUA?

And I arranged the lag personally. I felt that we needed some
excitement into this activity.
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."


On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
> Yeah, because I'd hacked the source code to make they in a more sane arrangement.
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> And it didn't compile on VAX after I seem to recall..
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> sampsa   <sampsa at mac.com>
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> On 21 Dec 2013, at 00:32, Joe Ferraro <jferraro at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> We were using FALKEN but the hardware died a sudden death a while back... WOPR is a game machine, but vax... if i recall, you wanted to keep it on AXP!?!
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>> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
>> UK, London specifically.
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>> Last year we came across the same issue, I believe WOPR (?) was setup to run a US version of the software..
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>> sampsa   <sampsa at mac.com>
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>> On 20 Dec 2013, at 21:19, Joshua Benedetto <dasbooterror at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > My buddy who was playing under 'Budster' was going well, but the lag was simply too much to deal with from the US. Where is CHIMPY at these days?
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>> > On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
>> > ELEVEN DAYS LEFT UNTIL THE DEADLINE!
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>> > The CHIMPY:: 2013 Retro VT100 Challenge closes at 23:59 GMT on 31-DEC-2013.
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>> > At the moment, the leaders are (only the top two players are awarded):
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>> > 1. Mark Holmes    with a score of 9,816
>> > 2. Mark Wickens   with a score of 7,640
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>> > Unfortunately the mystery player vola1 disappeared with his score of over 11,000 - make sure you screen shot your result when entering you name into the leaderboard, and send it to me.
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>> > Come on guys, let's get over 10K this year as well, SET HOST to CHIMPY and log in as TETRIS...
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>> > sampsa   <sampsa at mac.com>
>> > mobile +44 7961 149465
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