Earlier quoted context omitted.
Surely tsx-11 or sunsite would have something, right?
or funet, or wuarchive
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Twenty years later I wrote a Tetris again
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Re: Twenty years later I wrote a Tetris again
#12Great story. I recently made my own tetris game, though since I wanted to put it on the app stores and not get sued, I had to come up with a "tetris without being tetris", which was a great creative exercise. In the end I made a more unique game with some gameplay that is rather fun (IMHO) that would never have come to be if I just made a straight clone.
Re: Twenty years later I wrote a Tetris again
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
"...the majority of them in node.js, so now I need to install 500MB of dependencies to play a simple game of Tetris."
Check out https://github.com/mafintosh/tetris . This is a Node.js based Tetris clone, with only 46KB of dependencies. Please provide an example of a Node.js project which downloads 500MB of deps.
One? LOL, here are some that I know require ~600MB of dependencies:
- https://github.com/shockone/black-screen
And there are hundreds of them, specially if they require Babel which by itself requires a significant amount of disk space, but since you were lazy to find these projects by yourself, I will be lazy too and just list three of them, I will leave the rest to your imagination.
Re: Twenty years later I wrote a Tetris again
#14Yes because with improved tools we are expected to do more things to achieve the same goals.
Doesn't this mean we are becoming more inefficient? I wouldn't agree with calling those tools "improved", in that case.
About the size of the code: the code I wrote this time is roughly one third of the size of my original code which probably means it has less bugs and is more maintainable
That neglects to consider the fact that you are now depending on orders of magnitude more code than before, which from an overall perspective certainly doesn't mean "less bugs", and in fact could even make things more difficult to debug.
...and for something related but on the opposite direction, a competition on making the smallest (binary) Tetris clone that follows a spec:
https://files.scene.org/view/mags/hugi/compos/hc22fin.zip
The winners are 363 bytes.
Re: Twenty years later I wrote a Tetris again
#15I think any re-implementation of something you are fond of is a great exercise. It reminds me of a small project in undergrad for a networking course. Our professor's assignment for the quarter was to implement a basic TCP stack using the UDP protocol. It wasn't perfect and had quirks but it worked for a basic client/server model and gave me a huge appreciate for what happens when we use the internet. I think the hig…
> I think any re-implementation of something you are fond of is a great exercise
This is basically my procedure for learning a new programming language. I have a list of things that I like to have on hand that cover a fair amount of possible paradigms, and re-implement them. Things like FFT, linear algebra methods, numerical root finding/optimization algorithms, etc. Project Euler (and now also exercism.io) are great for finding small but digestible things to do too.
At the moment I'm working on finding some better mathematical examples for class abstractions & better use cases for object-oriented concepts in general. Because it looks like I'll be teaching a course either in Java or C# next fall. Coming from a scientific computing background the usual use cases for java and .net aren't my typical problem areas of expertise (though there are some things I definitely do appreciate about them).
Re: Twenty years later I wrote a Tetris again
#1614 years ago, I decided to write one to run on ITS, which had just been resurrected. My code's here: http://web.onetel.com/~hibou/ITSter.txt
323 lines of MACLISP including comments, no dependencies.
Re: Twenty years later I wrote a Tetris again
#17I like to have a simple personal 'benchmark' when learning new languages. One of the first programs I try to implement whenever a new language comes along is a filesystem walker.
It combines enough concepts that allow me to quickly evaluate the syntax and some core principles of a language. I rarely end up writing the same thing, which is rather impressive and sometimes even enlightening.
Re: Twenty years later I wrote a Tetris again
#18For those who haven't seen it, there is a wonderful talk by Jason Turner about writing a simple Pong clone for the Commodore 64 in modern C++:
Re: Twenty years later I wrote a Tetris again
#19Re: Twenty years later I wrote a Tetris again
#20Great story. I recently made my own tetris game, though since I wanted to put it on the app stores and not get sued, I had to come up with a "tetris without being tetris", which was a great creative exercise. In the end I made a more unique game with some gameplay that is rather fun (IMHO) that would never have come to be if I just made a straight clone.
Thanks for posting this. I'm always on the lookout for interesting Tetris variants. I purchased (on iOS) for Quad Blocks, after playing it on your website.