On a text terminal, the C-z command suspends Emacs, stopping the program temporarily and returning control to the parent process (usually a shell); in most shells, you can resume Emacs after suspending it with the shell command%emacs. Mac OS X: How to play old school arcade games in Terminal By SK 1 comment Last updated March 25, 2014 This article describes how you can play old arcade games, like Solitaire, Snake, Tetris, Fortune, Dunnet, Spook and many others (see available games below), in your Mac ‘s Terminal (command line).
| Click here to return to the 'Play Tetris in Terminal via emacs' hint |
Emacs is a nice operating system. Too bad it doesn't have a good editor.
*ducks*
Cheers,
b&
another reason i like VI . . . no bloat
If you really hate bloat in your editor, you should use ed, man! !man ed
It's the standard! Ed doesn't waste your time by gobbling up memory or getting in your face with a weird, inconsistent user interface. Try it today!
Wow, all those kilobytes of bloat. How can you stand it?
---
--
osxpounder
ed? My God, that thing is bloated as hell! I use cat as my editor. No fancy junk like going back and correcting your mistakes! I still remember when programmers were MEN, not little sissies whining for syntax highlighting in their editors. Punch cards, tape reels, and disk drives the size of washing machines... now those were the days....
yeah, talk about a bloated editor... emacs offers pong too (for 2 players). Just enter 'M-x pong' (M-x again equals to escape-x). One player can use the arrow-keys, the other the numbers 4 and 6.
Have fun!
Actually, emacs is not that bloated. It has a great lazy-loading system and all these 'goodies' are provided as packages. If you don't use them, they're not ever read from disk.
JP
---
Pell
Try 'snake' also.. ;) Or
doctor, hanoi, gomoku, blackbox, mpuz, 5x5, decipher, dunnet, lm, life, morse-region, pong, solitaire, studlify-region...
Cool, I didn't know of the other games, thanks! :-)
Well.. just look at the sourcecode.. 19.9MB.. I wonder, if there isn't a quake-engine also included.. ;)
Hi,
I am a really beginner with Mac and Terminal. After I applied this hint in terminal, I have noticed that my Tetris did turn out to be the black and white version.
I know Rob mentioned that if $TERM is set to VT100 (in Terminal Preferences), it'll show up as B&W version. And if I like the color version, I have to set $TERM to ansi.
Maybe what rob said is very obvious to many advenced Mac users out there, but I have tried to change mine into color version without luck. Can somebody be kindly walkthrough the steps for me on how to change the $TERM to ansi? I'll be very very appreciated for your help!
---
Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge; Speak with those who know as well as those who do not - Ancient Egyptian Ptah Hotep
Look in Terminal -> Preferences; you'll see a drop-down menu where you can set $TERM. Then just open a new Terminal window after changing it.
-rob.
When I went to Terminal preferences, it just had two things- /bin/tcsh and open a saved .term . It had a select from file thing, but I don't know were to find it. sorry to be such a bother- im just a beginer
Yes, please help. Im also a begginer and have no idea what that that means -thanx