can someone find me a copy of tetris?

[Dijos]

Either flash online or downladable for mac, the classic layout, but must have music! I can find dozens of games, but i reallly want one with music. Thanks!

 

[J. MacDonald]

Do a little Googling for MAME. MAME is an acronym for Multi Arcade Machine Emulator. MAME is a piece of emulator software that emulates teh processor environment of many of the old CPUs that ran real arcade video games like the Z80, the old Intel 8086, etc. Once you have MAME which has been compiled for both Windows and Mac OS, you can then start searching for ROM dumps. There are libraries of ROM dumps out there. A ROM dump is where someone has taken the ROM chip sets from an old arcade machine and used a reader to dump the code and then posted it to the net. With MAME and the right ROM, you will actually be running the original code from an arcade machine in an emulated processor environment on your modern computer. Sometimes the ROM dumps are works in progress as the game might play and look great but no sound, etc, but for a game like Tetris you should be able to find a fully working version no problem. MAME will also emulate the processor environment of Game Boys, consoles, etc. It's a fun hobby that is somewhat questionable from a copyright perspective, but certainly no worse than using Napster or whatever the current P2P music sharing software is.

Look here for the MAME software, but you'll have to do a little more digging for the game ROMS

http://www.mame.net/

After reading this post, I can't believe what a freakin geek I've become!

 

[G3]

Emulators and roms are definitely the way to go. Besides MAME there are tons of them out there for all different arcarde, computer, and console systems.
So far I have NES, SNES, Sega MS, Sega Genesis, Commodore 64, Atari Aquarius, Neo Geo, 3DO, and some others. Tetris should be one of the easiest and most copied to find.