[Joel]

Hey guys!

I've been looking into getting someone to port one of the linux variants of Blockout that exist. There are several, all open source GPL, to my knowledge. Some are designed for X Windows and some are designed to be run from the command line. What I was hoping, was to get a version that had a nice Aqua UI. I contacted the author of one of the command line variants and this is what he replied with:

<font color = red>&gt; I'm currently a Mac OS X user and remember having a lot of fun playing
&gt; Blockout when I was younger. Though I don't program myself, I think I
&gt; could find a couple of programmers for OS X that would be willing to port
&gt; the game. I was wondering if you still know who to contact to get

I think there is nearly nothing to do for the port.

If it is done, I will integrate the changes in my version.

&gt; permission to make a port of the game. Actually, I'm hoping to get a

The code is GPL, you can make ``what you want'' with it.
Thanks for asking permission.

&gt; version made that looks a bit more modern (perhaps with an option for the
&gt; traditional look) and an OS X specific GUI to interact with. In any case,

If it is what you want to do, I think you should use another
blockout to make the port. Mine doesn't use widgets and
it will be difficult to port.

There is others blockout implementation using widgets.

&gt; any help or information you could give me regarding this would be much
&gt; appreciated!! Thanks!

I hope release a new version in a month or two to correct
a small bug and enhance realtime. These are minor changes,
so you can use the current source.

Sincerely yours.
Thierry Excoffier.</font>

I then replied mentioning that someone had tried compiling his copy in OS X and it wouldn't work. So I asked him about other variants. Here's his reply:

<font color = red>&gt; Yours is the only version I could find. Do you happen to have links to any
&gt; of the other versions? Thanks!

Ask "google.com" with "3d tetris"....

The best answers :
http://gno3dtet.eseb.net/ &lt;---- This one must work on Mac OS X
http://www-public.rz.uni-duesseldorf...on/Trullatris/ http://www.geocities.com/xifrac/
http://www.mindlick.com/oldtetris/do...oads_Linux.htm
http://www.1000files.com/search.html?q=tetris
</font>
Anyone think they could do this? Thanks a ton!

-Joel

[ 11-13-2001: Message edited by: Joel ]

[Apocalypse]

A game as simple as 3D Tetris is not worth an actual "port" since it is pretty straight-forward to begin with. You should just look at the general logic and user interface (game board dimensions, etc) and then right it up yourself in OpenGL. I could give you a hand with that since it would be damn simple (each shape would only be a set of squares so it would be easy to hard-code and visualize mentally). The logic isn't too difficult for something like Tetris. Just make sure that space occupied by one shape doesn't intrude on another (make the board a 3-dimensional integer array where the value is the colour of the cube in that space). Just try it yourself without the Linux code. It wouldn't be too difficult.

Get back to me if you want to chat about it (ICQ #7027184),
Jeff.