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I was in college at the time. Wrote a /lot/ of technical papers with GeoWorks. The word processor and draw had great integration.

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Also had a Tetris that is still the nicest clone I've ever played. For years after, I'd load my GeoWorks onto an old PC just to play the Tetris. I probably have the GeoWorks disks in my garage still.

I'm 100% confident I've played that exact Tetris, but on Linux with Motif on X. So I think you'll find, if you poke around enough, that source code is alive and accessible.

I doubt it. Ours was written in our homegrown x86 assembly language for our own OS kernel.

We had some fun times playing heads up Tetris competitions in the office.

It was extra fun when one of the guys checked in a hacked version with some special keys to cheat that only he knew about. :-)

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