What is Galois
Galois is a computer game of the "falling blocks" type, but with unique features. Unlike most other games of that type, it is not limited to blocks made of four two-dimensional, square bricks: you can choose among several different brick shapes, blocks composed of more or fewer bricks, and even between two- and three-dimensional games.
Galois is free software, released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later. This essentially means that you can use, modify and redistribute it without restrictions, except that you are required to pass along the same freedom to everybody to whom you redistribute it.
Galois is hosted at Savannah, the software forge for people committed to free software.
News
- 5 Nov 2022
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Galois 0.8 released.
New features: removed application menu (deprecated by Gnome), added MetaInfo file, updated documentation.
- 29 Aug 2020
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Galois 0.7 released.
New features: improved blockset generation, packaging improvements, updated documentation.
- 30 Jun 2018
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Galois 0.6 released.
New features: packaging improvements, updated documentation.
- 16 Nov 2017
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Galois 0.5 released.
New features: port to gtkmm 3, updated style of user interface, improved superblock frequency in superblock mode, fall back to online manual if Gnome help isn't present, updated documentation.
- 14 Jul 2015
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Galois 0.4 released.
New features: animate dropping block, updated documentation, documentation in Italian.
- 25 Mar 2014
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Galois 0.3 released.
New features: superblocks game mode, display game over message, remove PDF manual from source tarball, updated documentation.
Note: paths of user data files were changed. To preserve your preferences and scores, read the upgrade notes.
- 26 Jan 2013
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Galois 0.2 released.
New features: improved graphics, packaging improvements, updated documentation, binaries for Debian GNU/Linux and Windows.
- 9 Nov 2012
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Galois 0.1 released.
Download
Download area: https://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/galois/
Current release (0.8):
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Source archive:
galois-0.8.tar.gz (284 kB) -
Debian GNU/Linux binary packages, amd64 and i386 architectures:
galois_0.8-1_amd64.deb (246 kB)
galois_0.8-1_i386.deb (250 kB) -
Debian GNU/Linux source package:
galois_0.8-1.debian.tar.xz (2 kB)
galois_0.8-1.dsc (1 kB)
galois_0.8.orig.tar.gz (284 kB) -
Microsoft Windows binary executable:
galois-0.8-mingw32.exe (25.1 MB)
This binary was built on Debian GNU/Linux using the MXE cross-compiling environment.
Documentation
Galois manual:
- English, HTML version (100 kB + 105 kB images)
- English, PDF version (218 kB)
- Italian, HTML version (101 kB + 105 kB images)
- Italian, PDF version (223 kB)
Contact
For any requests about Galois, send email to galois-list@nongnu.org
To subscribe to the mailing list, or browse its archives, go to https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/galois-list