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iPod Tetris Game and Cube Effects?

Tuesday May 31, 2005 6:15 pm PDT by Arnold Kim
Appleinsider claims that Apple will be introducing a iPod photo software update that will offer new image transitions, such as Mosaic, Cube and Fade effects.

In addition, the popular game "Tetris" is reportedly included.

The photos of the effects where first published on the internet on May 28th, 2005 to a free upload service. The back-story behind these photos was that this iPod software update was made available for a short time and was downloaded by this individual. This story was suspect and unverifiable and therefore remained unpublished.

Appleinsider is republishing the same photos, but is presumably confident enough about the report to post it.
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angelneo
88 months ago
Another new handheld gaming console perhaps? I wonder how good or how fast it can supports those transition or animations. Anyone has any idea of the graphics it can support?
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jimsowden
88 months ago

saw this this morning, now i want one!! Is it wrong to have four ipods??

Yeah, why do you need so many? I could see two, three max. A 30 or 60gb photo, depending on capacious need and importance of size. THen maybe a shuffle for jogging or working out. If you're insane, throw a mini in there because they're cool. There is no need to have old ones in the mix, sell those b*+(|-|35.
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johnbro23
88 months ago
Tetris must be really tough to play on an iPod. I wonder how they figured out the controls?
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obeygiant
88 months ago
so how did some guy in Germany get a hold of this?
was apple preparing the german version of the iPod update
and just messed up?
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sjpetry
88 months ago
Sadly the scroll wheel limits many games. But I guess that's why it's a music player.

And yes "Woot Tetris". :D
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JoeG4
88 months ago
I guess you've never used ipodlinux, there is tetris, andit's actually very easy. You turn the wheel to move the item, play drops it to the bottom.

It looks a LOT different though:
http://www.ipodlinux.org/Image:Liv2_bluecube.jpg
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phawksworth
88 months ago
Getting Tetris will be cool, and the transitions are nice too I guess, but I hope this upgrade will fix the annoying bug in the iPod photo where third party headphones trigger the autopause feature at random.

I love my iPod but this bug is a real pain. Are many of you folks experiencing this?
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obeygiant
88 months ago


It looks a LOT different though:
http://www.ipodlinux.org/Image:Liv2_bluecube.jpg


yeah, it looks crappy... :D
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dejo
88 months ago

I guess you've never used ipodlinux, there is tetris, andit's actually very easy. You turn the wheel to move the item, play drops it to the bottom.


How do you rotate the piece then?
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phawksworth
88 months ago

Sadly the scroll wheel limits many games. But I guess that's why it's a music player.

And yes "Woot Tetris". :D


Yeah, there aren't too many games that can easily played with the clickwheel, and as a result I rarely play the included games. Tetris might be rather addictive though. I can see myself missing my stop on the tube on the way to work!!
:)
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