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What is xtris?

xtris is a multi-player version of the classical game of Tetris, for the X Window system. It will run on most any reasonably modern Unix-like system, and has been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, SunOS and Solaris.

xtris is a true client/server game (as opposed to a centralized game managing multiple displays), which makes it particularily responsive and bandwith-effective. It can handle human players and automated ones (bots), and includes a simple chat system.

The latest version of xtris is 1.15; it fixes some resizing problems under CDE and mwm.

Here are some screenshots (click on them for full-size pictures):

xtris features:

The game itself is as close as I could get to the original Tetris game (the one written in Turbo Pascal 3 by the two Russian guys), so when you rotate your brick and drop it, it will fall just where you expect it.
The X interface has a Motif-ish look-and-feel, but does not actually use Motif, so it will compile on any system.
Works both standalone and multiplayer. Multiplayer games are synchronous, managed by a server. When a player fills two or more lines at the same time, they grow at the bottom of some other player's pit.
You can start automatic players (bots) and play against them. The bot's playing has improved a lot; it averages some 50,000 lines per game when playing alone now.
Includes a chat system where you can chat with other players (when some have lost and are waiting for the game to end), or see a detailed account of the game in progress.
You can redefine the keys the game uses and change its default colors, via X resources.

Downloading:

Download xtris in tarred and gzipped (compressed) form:

(these two are the same; the second is provided as a stable URL to link to if you want to link the xtris distribution).

Or you can look at these files one by one:

Read the README.
Read the ChangeLog.
Read the formatted man pages for xtris, xtserv and xtbot.
Read about the protocol used by the xtris server.
To see other stuff I've programmed/hacked, see here.

Note: to compile under current FreeBSD, edit the makefile with these definitions:

CFLAGS = -O3 -D__USE_FIXED_PROTOTYPES__ -I/usr/X11R6/include
XLIBDIR = -L/usr/X11R6/lib

License:

xtris is distributed under the GNU General Public License:


    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
    any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

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