What is it?
- Tetris for the HP95LX and
DOS/VGA,
1992.
- What computer or emulator will it run on?
- A HP95LX or any PC with a VGA card.
- Similar Games
- Tactical Lines, XO Tactics, Othi.
What is it?
The HP95LX was one of the first PDAs, rather similar to the better known Atari Portfolio. It had a 40 column, 16 line, 240×128 LCD screen and ran MS-DOS 3.22. Any text-based HP95LX program could run on a standard PC as well. A graphic program could run with a few modifications. Gilles Kohl included executables for both hardware platforms in the archive of his Tetris clone. That he chose to have it run, with unmodified graphics, in hi-res VGA on the PC gave it an almost surrealistic quality, fitting its quirky gameplay with all kinds of nasty surprises well.
