XONIX

XONIX is classic computer game that was popular in Soviet Union several decades ago. While its origins are lost in the becalmed mists of time, mainstream mythology associates creation of this game with Dmitry Pavlovsky. Moreover it's often claimed that original version was created to fulfill contest to create computer game, and that contest was won by Tetris created by Pavlovsky's coworker at CCAS --- Pajitnov.

Screenshot

Implementation

This clone was written as an exercise in portable multi-threaded programming. It uses Quercus Robusta library. Here is tar-ball containing executable image for Linux, statically linked with QR (665k).

ldd output:

        libbfd-2.9.5.0.24.so => /usr/lib/libbfd-2.9.5.0.24.so (0x40015000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40067000)
        libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x40084000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x40092000)
        libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 => /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 (0x4013c000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40184000)
        libreadline.so.4.0 => /lib/libreadline.so.4.0 (0x40189000)
        libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x401af000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x401f8000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4020b000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
			

untar it somewhere:

$ tar xvzf xonix.tar.gz
			

and run:

$ cd xonix
$ ./xonix
			

I'll put sources here as soon as they became more or less usable

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