About:
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Tubularix is a free opensource game similar to Tetris seen from a tubular perspective. Game's rules and behavior are very similar to the Tetris ones. It's written in c++ with the Qt 4 libraries.
The game can be run on GNU/Linux, Windows or Mac.

You can find Tubularix's news, files and updates at:
http://tubularix.sourceforge.net

Please, send your comments, suggestions, etc. to <miguelescudero@users.sourceforge.net>

Requirements:
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Qt 4 (tested on Qt 4.4.3 and 4.5)

Instructions (WINDOWS):
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You just need to uncompress the downloaded file, enter the game's directory and run tubularix.exe.

Instructions (GNU/Linux):
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If you downloaded a compiled version, you just need to uncompress the file, enter the game's directory and run tubularix.

Compiling and running (GNU/Linux):
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Uncompress the file
Open a console, go to the game's directory and run:
qmake (or qmake-qt4, depending on your distribution)
make

If compilation ends successfully, you can go to the game's directory and run tubularix.

Installation (GNU/Linux):
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Uncompress the file
Open a console, go to the game's directory and run:
qmake (or qmake-qt4, depending on your distribution)
make
sudo make install

If installation ends succesfully, you can start tubularix directly from a console or launch it from any application launcher.

OS/2 additional notes:
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Probably, in order to be able to save high scores correctly you will need to uncomment the lines from mainwindow.cpp that follow this commentary:
//that may solve some QSetting problems in OS/2

Game controls:
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Main:
P to pause, R to restart game, F to switch between normal mode/full screen and ESC to exit full screen mode.

Player 1 (right player):
Left and right arrows to move, down arrow to move down faster, B to drop the piece, up arrow to rotate piece counter-clockwise and space to rotate clockwise.

Player 2 (left player):
A and D to move, S to move down faster, X to drop the piece, W to rotate piece counter-clockwise and Q to rotate clockwise.

Mouse control:
It must be activated in Options->Activate mouse movement. Piece is moved with the mouse wheel, dropped with the left key and rotated with the right key.

Configuration files (Windows):
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Settings are stored in Windows registry at:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\tubularix\tubularix
HKEY_USERS\Software\tubularix\tubularix

Configuration files (GNU/Linux):
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Configurations are stored at $HOME/.config/tubularix/tubularix.conf

Languages:
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Tubularix is available in czech, english, galician and spanish.

Credits:
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Created and maintained by Miguel Escudero Gestal <miguelescudero@users.sourceforge.net>
Czech translation: Pavel Fric http://fripohled.blogspot.com/
