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- From: george@ucs.ubc.ca (George Chow)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp48
- Subject: Re: EQ card with Tetris
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 06:08:34 GMT
- Organization: University Computing Services, UBC, Canada
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- References: <12NOV199216195961@utarlg.uta.edu> <2b08b6c8.2172.1comp.sys.hp48.1@hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com>
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- In article <2b08b6c8.2172.1comp.sys.hp48.1@hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com> akcs.joehorn@hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com (Joseph K. Horn) writes:
- >Unfortunately, HP went to great pains to insure that us hacker types
- >cannot extract the Tetris code from the card. (Well, at least I tried
- >very, very hard, and couldn't do it). So bootleg copies of it won't be
- >floating around. You can only get it in one place: version B of the EQ
- >card. It's not being announced with a lot of fanfare, so that the
- >version A cards will continue to sell to the uninformed.
-
- And so, I suppose that there will be no "upgrade" available? BTW, what is
- the usual practice with ROM cards wrt versions and upgrades? Do companies
- view the ROM card as yet another distribution media or do they see it as
- hardware (and therefore not upgradeable).
-
- >-Joseph K. Horn- -Peripheral Vision, Ltd.-
- >akcs.joehorn@hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com
- >Disclaimer: I don't work for HP, EduCALC, or anybody else.
-
- George
-