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amasad wrote: post #3

Cool! I made a demo playable in the browser: https://repl.it/@amasad/tinytetris Or run it directly here: https://tinytetris.amasad.repl.run/

Is it just me? I can't make any operations, and tetrominoes did not drop from center (horizontally), but kind of from random position

Re: Show HN: Tinytetris – 80 x 23 Terminal Tetris

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Post by bitwize » Sun, Mar 31, 2019, 1:51 AM UTC

Friendly reminder: Tetris is one of the most valuable, and vigorously defended, game IPs in the world. Such aspects of the game as the dimensions of the playfield and the shapes of the tetrominoes are protected by copyrights and trademarks belonging to Tetris Holdings LLC -- and Tetris Holdings is Oracle-tier litigious. Yes, this has stood up in court. Hope you like unfriendly C&Ds from powerful attorneys.

Re: Show HN: Tinytetris – 80 x 23 Terminal Tetris

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Post by classichasclass » Sun, Mar 31, 2019, 1:59 AM UTC

With ncurses it runs out of the box on my POWER6 AIX machine, so A for portability. I'd give you an A+ if I had xlc installed locally, but I cheated a little and used gcc. (For ncurses, I used the perzl pre-built library.)

Re: Show HN: Tinytetris – 80 x 23 Terminal Tetris

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Post by baddox » Sun, Mar 31, 2019, 2:08 AM UTC

You could probably go even smaller by using higher resolution characters, like Braille, but without the per-block colors.

Re: Show HN: Tinytetris – 80 x 23 Terminal Tetris

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Post by legohead » Sun, Mar 31, 2019, 2:14 AM UTC

There used to be a playable Tetris in the favicon, which I found from HN[1], but it looks like the website[2] is dead now :(

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3873623

[2] http://favris.info/

Re: Show HN: Tinytetris – 80 x 23 Terminal Tetris

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Post by blondin » Sun, Mar 31, 2019, 2:24 AM UTC

amazing op! tetris is one of those game on my need to implement list and never actually finished an implementation :)

Re: Show HN: Tinytetris – 80 x 23 Terminal Tetris

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Post by dannyw » Sun, Mar 31, 2019, 2:28 AM UTC

legohead wrote: post #8

There used to be a playable Tetris in the favicon, which I found from HN[1], but it looks like the website[2] is dead now :( [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3873623 [2] http://favris.info/

Probably because of how vocal Tetris's IP lawyers are.