This is a game of pentix for terminals pentix is one of the various flavours of good old tetris. however, pentix surpassed its famous parent in playbility this version of pentix is based on the original msdos version of pentix by Marta & Adrian Soncodi (C) 1986 ICE/APP which is considered standard of pentix I've tried to keep this port and the original version as alike as possible in all relevant respects Play Pentix! Andrey Tchoritch http://www.sympad.net/~andy/pentix -- credits - game idea inspired by the original msdos version of pentix by Marta & Adrian Soncodi (C) 1986 ICE/APP which is based on the original version of tetris by Alexey Pazhitnov (C) 1985 - source code based on the version of tetris ported to linux by Zeyd M. Ben-Halim , based on the version of tetris modified to run on ascii terminals by Roberto Biancardi <..!unido!tmpmbx!deejay!i2ack!usixth!bob>, based on the version of tetris posted by Phill Everson and Martyn Shortley , based on the version posted to comp.sources.games by Adam Marguilies -- history - v 2.1 Thu Aug 10 16:00:01 EEST 2000 Finally it is looking like real pentix (more or less). At least by colors, shapes and appearance. It took me an arm and a leg to get all shape related coding done. One of the most significant enhancement - shape control handling which provides much better feedback. Well, much more to be done, but now it is fairly playable (touch wood). - v 2.2 Wed Sep 6 00:18:51 EEST 2000 Lots more things done/tuned/fixed: speed, levels, level leep, score counting. Now score icrement depends on game level, height at which shape dropped and "show next" hint. All code had been rearranged and brought to ANSI style. Some parts have been well optimized. Some minor problems with shape movement above the top of the bucket still remain, but that happens seldom or never. Well, since I'm having great deal of fun playing and coding pentix, I'll continue to work on it. - v 2.3 Sat Sep 23 16:28:40 EEST 2000 Score counting improvements: more collapsed lines at once yield more scored points. Scoring weights were defined for every shape in every phase of rotation. Finally I've prepared a decent man-page and a regular installation procedure. Now it looks like a real distribution package. And, more than that, since this version it compiles and runs under Linux without any changes (at least under a version I've got). - v 2.4 Mon Oct 9 11:16:10 EEST 2000 The major modification was that since this version speed coefficients are bound to system timer, so pentix should run at the same speed in the same way on different computer systems. A simple technique is applied to crypt scorefile to avoid tampering with it.