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date: 2024-02-11 20:51:50

categories: linux

firstPublishDate: 2024-02-11 20:51:50

My TUIs run in linux terminals and are built with:

Sheepy (and libsheepy) - my build system

Modified version of termbox

A widget library (twid)

Written in C

There are no dependencies besides sheepy and gcc.

The terminal font has to support unicode 15 for the TUIs using the 2x3 pixel characters and the terminal is configured for RGB 24 bit colors, when using terminal multiplexers (screen, tmux) you might not get 24bit colors.

The TUIs built on twid have these common key shortcuts:

F1     - Help (blue box on screen top)
q      - Quit
esc    - Quit/Close help
`      - Disable/Enable mouse
ctrl+/ - Change colors (c+7, c+-, c+_)
ctrl+p - Take a screenshot (as text)

I use i3 and I have shortcuts to start my TUIs on terminal windows, I start my calendar in the st terminal with Win/Cmd Key + d:

bindsym $mod+d exec st -e calendar

After sheepy is installed, the TUIs below are installed like this:

sudo spm -g install PACKAGE_NAME

On my laptop, it takes less than 16ms to start these TUIs.

Sheepy

Sheepy is a build system for using C as a scripting language like python. It takes less than 5 minutes to install sheepy on a machine:

apt-get install gcc git
git clone https://spartatek.se/git/sheepy.git
cd sheepy
sudo -H ./install.sh

The readme has more details.

Sheepy Readme

paku paku

`paku paku` is a 1D Pacman game created Aba games, to play it tap any button (except q) to turn. Press `q` to quit the game. It is a one button game.

Original paku paku game (javascript)

I reimplemented `paku paku` in C for the terminal (a font with unicode 15 is required to display correctly).

sudo spm -g install pakupaku

Precompiled executable for linux

paku paku screenshot [IMG]

Video of paku paku running on the librem5 phone

Aba games

Wikipedia article about Aba games

Aba games github

Missile Command

Missile Command is a clone of the Missile Command arcade game. I modified the code from `https://github.com/johnflakejr/MissileCommand` to run in the terminal.

Missile Command screenshot [IMG]