TETRIS - ANALYSIS AND SIMULATIONS

The classic game of falling pieces which are to be placed 'efficiently'. I got pretty good at a PC version, but (of course) grew frustrated that the game ran too fast. I was sure I could keep the game up almost indefinitely, if it were just a question of brainpower (not coordination). So...I taught the computer everything I knew how to do and let it play all by itself!

The PC version I played was called 'NYET' (something to do with copyrights, I think), so I started calling my version 'DA'. This ran on my home PC in 1990. I guess it would run a little faster now :-)

• da314.com -- PC executable
• da314.pas -- Turbo Pascal 3.0 source

Tidbits picked up elsewhere:

• Tetrises for XWindows:
  • ftp.x.org/contrib/tetris.3.1.0.tar.Z
  • ftp.x.org/contrib/altetris.tar.Z
  • ftp.x.org/contrib/xhextris.tar.Z
  • ftp.x.org/contrib/T3D.tar.Z
  • ftp.x.org/contrib/xtetris-2.5.2.tar.Z
• Paper: Can you beat tetris?
• Mail: No -- there are games so bad you lose.
• News: Some events are so bad you cannot win.

• My home page is just a short introduction to the pages I maintain
• The parent page to this one is dedicated to mathematical analysis of games in general.
• I keep a large set of pages which provide a thematic introduction to the subject areas of modern mathematics, complete with answers to thousands of more or less common questions.

This page is

	http://www.math.niu.edu/~rusin/uses-math/games/tetris/index.html