Hello, atris users! We welcome any and all feedback.

Alizarin Tetris is a Tetris-like game with a twist for Unix, Win32 and BeOS systems. It includes multi-player support, user-extensible color, shape and sound styles, can use TCP/IP networking and features a few different AI opponents. It was written using the SDL Library.

• Download
• Documentation

Outside Information And Reviews

Here are some external reviews about Alizarin Tetris (most of which consider it to be abandonware).

• Game Downloads
• The Undergods
• Linux Game Tome

Download

See our README file for information about downloading and installing the game. There are no big secrets, however, so you can just follow the instructions below according to your distribution preferences.

The game sound effects are packaged separately from the main game files because they are quite large. The sound effects are completely optional (although we recommmend them!). If you do install them, install them in the same manner (e.g., into the same directory) as you install the main package.

• Linux binary (Debian):
  • You can get the debian unstable package for atris here or the debian testing package for atris here. The debian atris package overview is also available.
  
  
• Windows binary (zip): Currently unavailable.

• BeOS:
  1. See Eugenia Loli-Queru's BeOS port of Atris. Special thanks to Eugenia for taking the time to port Atris to BeOS.


• Source (tar.gz)
  1. You will need the FreeType library, version 2 or later:
     • Visit the FreeType Home Page
  2. You will need the SDL library, version 1.2 or later:
     • Visit the SDL Home Page
  3. You will need the SDL_ttf library (which requires FreeType), version 1.2.2 or later:
     • Visit the SDL_ttf Home Page
  4. You will need Alizarin Tetris itself; the latest version available is 1.0.6:
     • atris-1.0.6.tar.gz (local, 410K)
     • atris-sounds-1.0.1.tar.gz (OPTIONAL, local, 647K)
     • You will find the HTML manual in the "Docs" subdirectory of the source archive. Run "autogen.sh" (or just "configure") and then "make", as usual. You can play the game from the toplevel directory of the source, or you can run "make install".

Documentation

A copy of the HTML Manual included with all of the distributions is available here. It includes a few screen-shots and explains key game concepts. You may find the Troubleshooting section very useful; we post updates about known bugs there. Finally, a set of Frequently Asked Questions is available.