For those who may not have heard of the Free Tools Association (FTA) and their influence within the Apple IIGS community many decades ago, a website is still maintained by Olivier Goguel (one of the original members of the group).

Please Note: This source code is very much in a state of flux and is currently a bit of a mess. I will provide updates as best as I can 😄

Change-log:

04/05/2024 - Foundation code.
20/07/2024 - Making progress, albeit slowly when I can find time between work and personal life.
12/08/2024 - Code refactoring and tidyup.
18/08/2024 - Code starting to come together and take shape. Overall structure begining to settle. Ironing out bugs.
30/08/2024 - It's been four months already. More incremental progress. Hopefully not much longer now.

Compilation

Make sure to install the following development libraries
1. SDL2
2. SDL_image 2.0
3. libsodium
Type the following commands:

cd src
make

Screenshot

Misc.

Run from command line or GUI
To move game window using GNOME (Press Super [win] key) and right click/hold mouse) anywhere in game window.

Todo

Score (points allocation)
high score dotfile (in user home dir)

In Progress

High scores (entry & panel)
Status (panel)

Nice to have

Intro (page / music)
Game play (music / Sound FX)

Done

Cluster detection
Display updated board (render/update)
No more moves / Game over
Random brick selection
Brick: Rotation [R], Left [←], Right [→]
Random column selection
Display in play brick (falling brick)
Backdrop Colour selection [^C]
About screen [A]
Menu screen
Info screen [I]
Pause [P]
Quit [Q]
Restart [^R]
Keyboard input (Event Handling)
Invert backdrop gradient [ctrl + X]
Next piece preview [N]
Tile Shape [^S]
Brick (drop) [SPC] - improvment needed
Game (loop / timing / logic) - still some issues need to be ironed out - improvment needed
Brick (cluster elimination & explosion)
Levels [1 - 6]

Bugs

Visual artifacts
intermittent tile elimination issues

Author(s)

Apple IIGS Version: FTA (1990/91)
SDL Version: Jason Bou-Samra (2024)