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seatris Version 0.0.14.
Copyright 1999 Jonathan McDowell for Project Purple. http://www.earth.li/projectpurple/progs/seatris.html

Introduction

seatris is a tetris clone. Simple as that. Written as it's one of my favourite games and I've been meaning to write it for ten years now. Slightly helped by the fact that the previous Linux Tetris game I'd been playing (tt) didn't compile under glibc.

Playing

Keys are:

j,l     : left, right
k       : rotate
<space> : drop
m       : drop by one line
+       : increase level
p       : pause
q       : quit

Ctrl-L : refresh screen

Running

seatris can be given several command line options:

-s            : Print out the high score table.
-l x          : Start at level x. (max 20)
-k "abcdefgh" : Use key a as left
                        b as right
                        c as rotate
                        d as drop
                        e as drop by one line
                        f as increase level
                        g as pause
                        h as quit.
                Default is "jlk m+pq"
-f <filename> : Use <filename> as an alternative high score file. Does
                not work if seatris is SUID or SGID.
-b            : Force seatris not to use colour, even if ncurses reports
                that the display is capable of it.
-c            : Force seatris to use colour, even if ncurses reports that
                the display isn't capable of it. May not work.

Config file:

Several options can also be set via either a global config file (/etc/seatrisrc by default) or a per user config file (~/.seatrisrc). They are all overridden by the command line options. The options are:

KEYS abcdefgh

The same as the -k command line option.

LEVEL <level>

The default start level.

MONO <true|false>

Force the use of no colour, as with the -b command line switch.

SCOREFILE <filename>

        The full pathname to the desired highscore file to be used. Note
        this cannot be used from the per user config file if seatris is
        SUID or SGID.

DOTS <true|false>

        Enable the use of dots to help guide the position of pieces in
        the playing grid.

SQUIGGLES <true|false>

        Enable the '$' characters at the bottom of the playing field to
        help guide pieces.

BOLD <true|false>

Enable the use of bold colours instead of darker ones.

Platforms

seatris should be fairly portable - certainly the aim is to make it so. Unfortunately I only have a limited range of systems to try it on and so I can only say that I've tried it successfully on Linux, FreeBSD and HP/UX.

Name

Why is it called seatris? Well, you see, I went to a careers fairs and Seagate were there. And they gave me a funny executive toy sort of thing, that just happens to only fit together with both sides covered when it's the in the shape of a tetris block. So it's the tetris shape maker and I renamed tetris to seatris as it's as good (or bad) a name as any. Note this does not imply any affiliation or support of Seagate, other than the fact they give away cool tetris shape makers if you ask nicely.

Notes

Ideally seatris should be installed SGID games so that the high score file can be accessed for all users. Please note that this is a slight security risk.

Contacting the author:

I can be reached as noodles@earth.li or on Fidonet as Jonathan McDowell @ 2:443/21

All constructive criticism about seatris is welcome.

License

seatris is distributed under the GNU Public License, a copy of which should have been provided with this archive as LICENSE.