[BRLTTY] [OT] betris -- a horizontal braille version of tetris

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2018, Mario Lang wrote:

> Nicolas Pitre <nico at fluxnic.net> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 31 Aug 2018, Mario Lang wrote:
> >
> >> I'd be interested in feedback.
> >> I have only tested it with one other blind person yet.
> >> 
> >> It is a haskell projeect.  To install, run:
> >> 
> >> $ cabal update
> >> $ cabal install betris
> >
> > Well.... I get:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > And so on for an almost screenful before it bails out.
> >
> > And I know nothing about haskell.
> 
> Sorry, dependency hell.  The short story is, that cabal on Debian is
> pretty old.  stack should manage to build it, however the stack
> version on Debian stable is broken with newer projects.

This is on Fedora 28.

> If you are on x86_64, you could try this:
> 
> $ wget https://blind.guru/betris
> $ chmod +x betris
> $ ./betris

That worked.  Now I have to figure out how to play. Admitedly, I never 
saw how Tetris works.


Nicolas