It's wild that there aren't any FOSS Tetris games for Android that have been updated this decade.
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You did not ask for an alternative but just for visibility because its awesome: a great tetris clone is Techmino. It is on Github and I am getting it via Obtainium.
And for anyone who hates themselves, it looks like bastet is also available!
Gotta try this for fifteen minutes then ditch it forever. Never heard of it before, but as they say: curiosity killed the cat!
Yep... definitely crazy. Tried easy, was thinking I seemed to be pretty smart up to 4 lines. Then it just kept screwing me with two alternating pieces and the holes started. It loves giving you angles that go the wrong way around given your current block layout 😅
Wow, I didn't know you could run a terminal on Android, I'll check it out, thank you
Termux is so useful and fun.
out of curiosity, what do you use it for? I've never been able to find a useful function of it beyond a niche party trick
I use it for backing up all my photos and videos (the DCIM folder) to my B2 repo using rclone.
It's genuinely amazing how useful it is.
There's a native foss android app called Round Sync that does this.
Oh, that client looks great.
Will check it out, cheers!
I use it for YouTube-dl, and it's probably useful for programming too. There is a command to let it access shared storage, use that before anything else. Download it from f-droid. Play store build is broken.
box64(droid) makes it possible to run x64 applications, even with wine - so you can have a mini graphically accelerated desktop
also try running the command ssh playnetris.com, it's a server that allows you to play tetris by yourself or online with strangers
Nethack is also available on termux. I like to play on my Chromebook when at school.
Nice! I did the same thing until my school figured out how to block Google Play
Yeah the restrictions on Chromebooks are really annoying. Termux is the only way I can actually program on my chromebook and if they remove that I guess it's time to buy a Thinkpad.
You can download and run an apk of Termux (this is v118), or even of F-Droid so you can install Termux and keep it up to date.
You can also play Tetris via Emacs.
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TetrisMode
Starting with OS X, every Mac has shipped with Tetris out of the box 🙂.
So cool, I didn't even know it was possible. If you or someone else want to try a tetris app on F-Droid I recommend Blockinger
That's cool but looks like an absolute disaster to play with a smartphone keyboard. Or even just the buttons they give.
Have a look at netris also, open source multiplayer tetris that you can play by sshing into playnetris.com (or your own self hosted server
On termux you have to rebind the rotate buttons as they don't have a default value but on a pc they do
This is IMO the best FOSS Tetris for Android
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