Re: interactive game demo for gnuplot

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

>> Looking forward to Tetris in gnuplot!
> I couldn't resist the challenge...
>
> It's not "real" Tetris but a variant called Xixit that I used to play a
> lot on my 486.

Fantastic!!!

Now it runs slightly better on qt than on x11.

In the setup, I propose
- bind the up arrow to nothing 
- bind also normal +/- to faster/slower
- unset mouse

> (I decided against Tetris because I had doubts about the legal status of a 
> reimplementation.)

I don't think there are any nowadays; there is also tetris as a vim plugin.

> I also have doubts whether it should be included in the demo suite: the
> game logic is sufficiently complex that it begins to strain the limits
> of gnuplot. Well, theoretically, we have conditional execution,
> variables and eval in gnuplot, so it can do anything, but the point is
> whether it is sensible to do so - and if someone said this example is
> not sensible, I'd have to agree.

I think there can be a subdirectory games/ in the demo directory. And on web 
page as well.

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