An addictive action puzzle game with single player and multiplayer capabilities (Internet or LAN). Quadra is an extremely smooth Tetris clone with single player and multiplayer capabilities over the local area network or the Internet. Either play with one or two friends on one PC or play over LAN or Internet with even more players.
Quadra is an addictive puzzle game and competitive, action-packed multiplayer game all-in-one. It features incredibly smooth gameplay, recursive line clearing allowing blocks to combine in violent chain reactions, integrated CD music player, fully configurable multiplayer mode with team play, powerful and flexible user interface TCP/IP support for internet or LAN multiplayer games and more.
From https://code.google.com/archive/p/quadra/downloads: https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-downloads/v2/code.google.com/quadra/quadra-1.2.0.tar.gz Assigning this package request to all packagers collectively. On a voluntary basis, one of them might, if there are no license or other legal issues, want to integrate it to the distribution and maintain it for bug and security fixes. You Pavel might also want to join the packager team to maintain this piece of software: see https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager
Severity: normal => enhancementSummary: Nice tetris clone - version 1.2 => quadra, a tetris clone, game with single player and multiplayer capabilities (Internet or LAN). NEW PKG REQUESTAssignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs
The reason for RPM request (I played Quadra some years ago, and its really "addictive") is in fact, that I couldn't finish the installation from the sources, that I couldn't find the package providing the files for X11 (using in MCC - package management, and tried install everything with "x11" in the name (?)), as listed in the end of the dump from terminal: "configure: WARNING: X11 is required and could not be found! configure: error: Required dependencies missing." [pavel@localhost quadra-1.2.0]$ ./configure checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for X... libraries , headers checking for gethostbyname... yes checking for connect... yes checking for remove... yes checking for shmat... yes checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... yes checking for g++... g++ checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking for compress in -lz... yes checking for png_create_read_struct in -lpng... yes checking for XOpenDisplay in -lX11... yes checking for XShmAttach in -lXext... yes checking for XF86VidModeSwitchToMode in -lXxf86vm... yes checking for XpmCreatePixmapFromData in -lXpm... no checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking X11/Xlib.h usability... yes checking X11/Xlib.h presence... yes checking for X11/Xlib.h... yes checking X11/xpm.h usability... no checking X11/xpm.h presence... no checking for X11/xpm.h... no checking for X11/extensions/XShm.h... yes checking for X11/extensions/xf86vmode.h... yes checking zlib.h usability... yes checking zlib.h presence... yes checking for zlib.h... yes checking png.h usability... yes checking png.h presence... yes checking for png.h... yes checking machine/endian.h usability... no checking machine/endian.h presence... no checking for machine/endian.h... no checking machine/byte_order.h usability... no checking machine/byte_order.h presence... no checking for machine/byte_order.h... no checking linux/cdrom.h usability... yes checking linux/cdrom.h presence... yes checking for linux/cdrom.h... yes checking linux/soundcard.h usability... yes checking linux/soundcard.h presence... yes checking for linux/soundcard.h... yes checking mcheck.h usability... yes checking mcheck.h presence... yes checking for mcheck.h... yes configure: WARNING: X11 is required and could not be found! configure: error: Required dependencies missing. [pavel@localhost quadra-1.2.0]$
I'm no dev but I often succeed in building something I think I want, when dependencies are reported as missing, by using CLI urpm tools. I'd say > configure: WARNING: X11 is required and could not be found! is too general for a dabbler, such as myself, and I've encountered many such "cryptic" messages in the build terminal. Here's an example of one fishing strategy that is of the form that has yielded a complete build in my past experience, based on "checking" messages that report "no", for example: > checking X11/xpm.h usability... no > checking X11/xpm.h presence... no What package provides that file? [rolf@x570i ~]$ urpmf X11/xpm.h lib64xpm-devel:/usr/include/X11/xpm.h http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/distrib/8/x86_64/media/core/updates/media_info/20210327-133221-files.xml.lzma http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/distrib/8/x86_64/media/nonfree/updates/media_info/20210322-211520-files.xml.lzma http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/distrib/8/x86_64/media/tainted/updates/media_info/20210327-133433-files.xml.lzma libxpm-devel:/usr/include/X11/xpm.h http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/distrib/8/i586/media/core/updates/media_info/20210327-133137-files.xml.lzma http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/distrib/8/i586/media/nonfree/updates/media_info/20210322-211519-files.xml.lzma http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/distrib/8/i586/media/tainted/updates/media_info/20210327-133430-files.xml.lzma [rolf@x570i ~]$ The current relevant urpm database files are downloaded and parsed for what package contains the particular file. Note: the more of a file path that is fed to urpm, the more limited are the results. IOW, a single file name might return dozens of results but 'configure' has helped us avoid that ambiguity by providing the partial path of interest. Perhaps it is interesting to find what might be the relevance of the indicated packages to the ultimate goal of having the software built. Bonus example of this venerable "frantic hammering" IT style: [rolf@x570i ~]$ urpmq -i lib64xpm-devel Name : lib64xpm-devel Version : 3.5.13 Release : 2.mga8 Group : Development/X11 Size : 76977 Architecture: x86_64 Source RPM : libxpm-3.5.13-2.mga8.src.rpm URL : http://xorg.freedesktop.org Summary : Development files for libxpm Description : Development files for libxpm What is libxpm? [rolf@x570i ~]$ urpmq -i libxpm No package named libxpm Terminal output nouns used have a special meaning to devs and I have to fish some more to get an answer. [rolf@x570i ~]$ urpmq -y xpm lib64xpm-devel lib64xpm4 libxpm-devel libxpm4 [rolf@x570i ~]$ urpmq -i libxpm4 http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/distrib/8/i586/media/core/release/media_info/20210224-164801-info.xml.lzma Name : libxpm4 Version : 3.5.13 Release : 2.mga8 Group : Development/X11 Size : 81476 Architecture: i586 Source RPM : libxpm-3.5.13-2.mga8.src.rpm URL : http://xorg.freedesktop.org Summary : X Pixmap Library Description : The xpm package contains the XPM pixmap library for the X Window System. The XPM library allows applications to display color, pixmapped images, and is used by many popular X programs. [rolf@x570i ~]$ Displaying color and pixmapped images *does* sound important for a game but IDK. My suggestion is that CLI urpm is likely a better tool for finding needed software for compiling than is rpmdrake but I might not have learned how to thus use MCC software management to its fullest capabilities.
CC: (none) => rolfpedersen
Yes, thanks a lot. I've just run MCC and using MCC found and installed the -devel package for "lib64xpm4" named lib64xpm-devel (development files for libxpm). Without you I would never find it and thus continue installation. Now when ./configure is done, I used make command for build and make install for installing the result into system. With my new PC it's (compiling etc.) very fast. There is just one big issue with my 24'' monitor: In console/terminal: /dev/dsp: Input/output error It ended/ends in black screen. I experienced this some days before, when playng the game Berušky, started it with fullscreen and the next time I've launched the game, there was the same black screen with the message displayed in right bottom corner of the LCD display: ! Out of range.
(In reply to Pavel Fric from comment #5) > In console/terminal: /dev/dsp: Input/output error /dev/dsp is used with the open sound system. I think the command padsp can be used to enable it's emulation, but have not used it.
CC: (none) => davidwhodgins
Found some more info. Install ossp, enable and start osspd.service Then use "padsp OSSprogram" with the proper program name.
Further information: I´ve found, that Quadra 1.2 release was the 10th anniversary release, and there could be/is version 1.3 too: 1.3.0: 15th Anniversary Release. But: "Has now been ported to SDL2, which should improve portability, especially on Mac OS X, which is now using native graphics (instead of X11) and is packaged as an application bundle. With many other changes, this might not be the most reliable of releases, but since the last release was the 10th anniversary release, I figure the best we can do for Quadra is to release earlier, and rather than try to get everything perfect, be ready to fix it in quick follow up releases." https://github.com/quadra-game/quadra/releases
I've just installed Quadra version 1.3 and I can confirm, it is very addictive. :-) I've probably hadn't seen more tetris like games, because there wasn't the need for searching another clone, but this..., well. :-) After first launch, I thought that the cursor keys aren't responding, or something else is wrong. I hit Esc key, and ... and yes in "player setup" there were mapped keys like F 15, ... F 17 etc - I don't have keyboard with such keys (or I am not aware). So, I remapped moves: left, right, down, and it is mapping that suits me well: for twice rotating the "block" - cursor key for Up. There are keys for instant dropping, twice rotating the block too.
I mistyped "for twice rotating the "block" - "Rotate twice": I meant the Rotate counterclockwise action - set now as cursor key for Up (direction)." -
Created attachment 12547 [details] quadra's spec/patch files in a rpmbuild directory tree Attached is a rpmbuild directory structure for quadra game from git( without the source as inside is a script to get it) which builds/runs fine on Mageia Cauldron. A proper and more experienced Mageia packager may clean up this. Hope this helps. Cheers.
CC: (none) => arusanu
The last release is from 2014! Zero project activity since 2014. So this is dead and unmaintained upstream. 61 open issues... Closing as WONTFIX.
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => WONTFIX