I never imagined I’d like playing Tetris on the command line, on a terminal on my phone (termux), but here I am!
I couldn’t find any Tetris app on fdroid, and just checked if pkgs had one. Lo and behold! It asked me to run pkgs install vitetris, and when I did, the tetris command was there to launch the game.
It’s a two step process, as opposed to just launching an app, but it is very lightweight, no tracking, and FOSS.
For anyone with termux already installed and feeling a bit nostalgic, might be worth trying it out.
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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.
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
DCIMfolder) to my B2 repo usingrclone.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.
play store build is broken because of its insecurities via sdk29 usage.
box64(droid) makes it possible to run x64 applications, even with wine - so you can have a mini graphically accelerated desktop
Can also get a NixOS version of termux
If you really want your mind blown check out UserLAnd
I’ve been using Andronix, how does this compare?
There’s also AnLinux (available in F-Droid)
It utilizes termux to run Linux distros on Android without root access.
ty, I had fun for 10m 👍
also try running the command
ssh playnetris.com, it’s a server that allows you to play tetris by yourself or online with strangersNethack 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.
I am the man who arranges the blocks.
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 🙂.
Does it support hjkl?
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
I do not. The UX is mediocre and while it says it uses the 7-bag system, it doesn’t do that, at all.
Very cool
That’s cool but looks like an absolute disaster to play with a smartphone keyboard. Or even just the buttons they give.
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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
