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VITETRIS - Virtual terminal *tris clone
Homepage: http://victornils.net/tetris
Rotation, scoring, levels and speed should resemble the early Tetris games
by Nintendo, with the addition of a short lock delay which makes it
possible to play at higher levels. (It does not make it possible to
prevent the piece from ever locking by abusing lock delay resets.)
vitetris comes with more features and options than might be expected from
a simple text mode game. Full input control, customizable appearance,
netplay where both players can choose difficulty (level and height) --
unless you must have sound (or just don't like Tetris), you won't be
dissappointed. Everything is not described here, but you should be able
to figure it out.
This program is free software. It is distributed under the terms of a
simple BSD-style licence (OSI-approved). See licence.txt for details.
How to Play
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Run "./tetris" inside a terminal window if you have just extracted a
tarball somewhere (cd into the directory first). The command could be
"vitetris" or "tetris" if you have used a package manager to install it.
(If you're on Windows, just double-click tetris.exe.)
To navigate in the menus, use the cursor keys, ENTER to proceed (or leave
a menu), and BACKSPACE or ESC to go back. Exit at once with Q.
Default Game Controls
Move left: LEFT
Move right: RIGHT
Rotate: UP
Softdrop: DOWN
Harddrop: SPACE
To pause in a single-player game, press P or ENTER.
A-type means a normal "marathon" game.
In a B-type game, the object is to clear 25 lines.
Options
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The first thing you want to do if you're in a terminal window with a white
background is to enter "Options" and set "Term BG" to "white" (press
right). Otherwise you'll get a white/grey piece which is hard to see.
You can also change the colours of individual pieces in the "Tetromino
Colours" menu.
To change key bindings, go to "Input Setup". To the left are keys used in
menus, to the right in-game keys. Just press the key you want to use.
If not explicitly set, the following in-game keys depend on some other key
binding (e.g. if UP is used for "Up", it is also used for "Rotate"):
Rotate - Up
Rot cw - A
Rot acw - B
Softdrop - Dwn
"Rot cw" means "Rotate clockwise" and "acw" anticlockwise.
There are three separate configurations, single player, player1 and
player2, which include keys, starting level and height, and rotation
preference. In netplay, the single player configuration is used.
Command Line
------------
Run "vitetris -help" (or whatever the command name is) to get a help message
with a list of command-line options. If you're on Windows, you need to
run this from a cmd window, or a "DOS window".
This help message tells you where configuration and highscores are saved.
Network Play
------------
To play against someone on the internet, one needs to listen with
vitetris listen PORT
(where PORT is a number, e.g. 34034); the other connects with
vitetris connect HOSTNAME:PORT
HOSTNAME may be an IP address or a hostname. If it is omitted, localhost
is used.
If the server (the one who listens) has mode set to B-type, such a game
will be set up.
It is also possible to play using Unix domain sockets, which means that
filenames on the local system are used as addresses. The most convenient
way to set up such a connection is as follows. Start vitetris on two
different terminals. Then one player enters "2-Player Game", which will
bring up a list of ttys. When the tty of the other player is selected, an
invitation will appear on his screen.
Gamepad Start Button
--------------------
The START button on a gamepad can be mapped to act like the ENTER key.
Add the following line below [js0] or [js1] in .vitetris (or vitetris.cfg):
start=NUM
where NUM is the button number.
Credits
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The original Tetris game was designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in
1985.
The wiki at tetrisconcept.com has been a valuable resource.
tt "Tetris for Terminals" was written by Mike Taylor in 1989.
Hugo Fernbom and Andreas Carlsson have helped me with testing, ideas and
feedback.
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