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Mac OS X Hidden Games in Terminal Video

metacafe.com — How to play the hidden games in a mac using terminal. Easy trick !!. Tetris, Pong , Solitaire,Snake, etc...

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  • longofest, on 10/12/2007, -34/+5Not quite the "scrolls like butter" quality that you'd expect to find with built-for-osx games, but I never would have thought to look in emacs to waste my time... er... play games...
    • NoOneButMe, on 10/12/2007, -6/+42Thats cause it's a hidden egg in emacs, not in OS X. they just never removed it in OS X.
    • oxymor00n, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27No it's not an egg in Emacs. The games are documented in (info "Emacs(Amusements)") for instance.
    • longofest, on 10/12/2007, -13/+2@NoOneButMe: "Thats cause it's a hidden egg in emacs, not in OS X. they just never removed it in OS X."

      Hence me noting that the games AREN'T like the other built-for-osx games. If it's in Terminal, it's most likely something Apple ripped from somewhere else (but not necessarily)
  • ikickass, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15Put into terminal:
    ls /usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/play
    get te name of what you want to play
    type:
    emacs
    press escape and x at the same time
    type your game ex: tetris
  • unamas, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4type ls /usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/play in a terminal window
    pick a game
    type emacs
    press esc+x
    type your game ex: tetris
    enjoy!
  • dpcamp, on 10/12/2007, -59/+8OMG! OS X has a half as version of tetris hidden in it! let's praise our Lord and Savior Steve Jobs!


    digg me down all you want but you know i'm not the only one..
    • amboy00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20We can't all have Minesweeper.
    • haxorjoe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+45It's not a Mac thing. You can do this in any OS that can run Emacs, dumbass
    • jaycliche, on 10/12/2007, -21/+5It's an interesting easter egg asshole. Just cause your ghetto ass can't afford a mac you don't have to hate.

      Wasn't the 90's nothing but "praise the glorious Bill Gates"? Maybe next decade we can praise your amazing and innovative OS.
    • UltimaNut, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25"digg me down all you want but you know i'm not the only one.."

      Yes...we know you are not the only idiot...
    • luvkit, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3@jaycliche

      "Wasn't the 90's nothing but 'praise the glorious Bill Gates'? Maybe next decade we can praise your amazing and innovative OS."

      Next decade we'll praise Linus Torvalds.
  • amboy00, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8If only I could play them with a wii-mote!
    • PirateFSM, on 10/12/2007, -9/+4... in a game where you have to shoot Sony's president.
  • nateabel, on 10/12/2007, -14/+2Easy my ass...
    • PirateFSM, on 10/12/2007, -20/+5I was going to say that they made those instructions for retards. Even a baby can do them with ease. Then I realized it was for "OS X". Meaning, the majority of them have never seen a command prompt.
    • SwabTheDeck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12@PirateFSM
      The command line is like 30% of the reason why I got a Mac in the first place. Of the Mac users I know vs. the Windows users I know, a higher percentage of the Mac users use the Terminal and a much smaller percentage of Windows users use the Command Prompt. People need to get the idea out of their head that Macs aren't for "hardcore" users, as I find that almost everyone I know that owns a Mac is either an electrical engineering or computer engineering/science major that is heavily into the hardcore stuff.
    • arjayl642, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3@PirateFSM
      I use the command prompt WAY more on a Mac than on a Windows. Windows has the easiest UI, which makes it more preferred over a Mac.

      Although I bet others would disagree. There's plenty of other arguments to make, but in this case, that's how I feel.
  • JorgeArbusto, on 10/12/2007, -5/+23Umm, emacs does not refer to Apple Mac and Apple did not invent Unix.
    • seventoes, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12WHAT???!?!?!!!?!
    • fitchmicah, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7he's getting at the fact that this isn't a mac thing, it's an emacs thing...
  • broomett, on 10/12/2007, -18/+10And people say you can't play games with a MAc! *****! With OS X they give you CUTTING EDGE games like Tetris and Pong!
    • jaycliche, on 10/12/2007, -5/+17Yeah, unless it's got a registry to edit all day it ain't *****.
  • Ulrika, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14The games are neither hidden in Terminal nor in Emacs. They are games written in Lisp for Emacs as part of its standard distribution. All flavors of Unix and GNU/Linux comes with Emacs and its vastly superior counterpart, Vim.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs
    • cdmarcus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9You really have to bring up editor wars here? Either way, you're right. Not about Vim, but about Emacs games being standard.
    • Ulrika, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Hijacking this thread for an Emacs-Vi editor war would only be an improvement. ;)
    • jaycliche, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2So where are all you dissing LISP? How come it's ok now when it's not written for mac? Start complaining how you can't play Bully on x-windows and how all anyone can talk about on here is Sun and Linus Torval. Bring on the disses. Waiting...
    • Ulrika, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Perl > LISP
      VIM > Emacs
      President Ford > Pack of Wolves
  • prockcore, on 10/12/2007, -7/+15Why is it every time I see "OS X Hidden suchandsuch" I just know it's going to be a standard feature of some standard software?
    • rolotomasi, on 10/12/2007, -11/+7Because Mac users aren't exactly the most computer savvy people.

      I bet submitter felt all special when he first discovered the windshield washing button on his car.
  • cdmarcus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Oh my god. Shut up about this *****. This is a NON-HIDDEN feature of EMACS, a text-editor. I have emacs installed on my Windows and Linux PC's, and they can all do this. It just so happens that Emacs is built in to Mac OS X.
  • select, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I think the title is very misleading, as the games are not hidden and they are not specific for OS X.
  • cdmarcus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Emacs is a multiplatform text editor. It has these as documented features. It's not hidden, it's not Mac-specific, and therefore, it's complete crap.
  • fikle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Wow. Yes, emacs games. Fun, but really have nothing to do with OS X itself. And chances are if you open emacs they aren't even hidden. I guess that would bury you under ... "wrong topic". Cheers.
  • venicerocco, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Worst digg post ever. Rubish on so many levels.
  • Embrace, on 10/12/2007, -8/+5HEY! Windows has hidden games to!
    Just go start>run>regedit and delete everything you can... than restart!

    Its called "Holy crap" and "BSOD"
    :( Will somone by me a Mac ?
    • PirateFSM, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Why so you can go out of your way to break that too?
  • NKUmike, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Did steve jobs really invent breakout?
  • Daveecee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This was kind of fun when it was dugg to the front page just 42 days ago. 1500+ diggs at that. Buried as a dupe.

    http://digg.com/apple/Cool_list_of_easter_eggs_in_Mac_OS_X
  • foxmajik, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Good thing they found this, I was getting really tired of that sliding puzzle from System 7...
  • cthellis, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1See? Macs ARE for gamers!
  • dreadstar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'm getting sick of these stupid videos that get posted here to make the video poster money. What is the sense of turning something like this into a video when it'd be so much easier to just put it on a webpage. Everyone rate the video 1 star so he don't get his money that we're giving him!
  • n00bst3r, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1MAN! This is way better than playing Half-Life 2 and the Goldeneye Source Mod that my cousin is playing on the Dell he got for Christmas! Suddenly I have no regrets getting a Macbook for Christmas!
  • fitchmicah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13HERE IS A SECRET **EASTER EGG**** FILE VIEWER FOR MAC OS X:

    OPEN THE TERMINAL AND TYPE "ls" AND IT WILL LIST FILES!!!! SECRET EASTER EGG!!!!
  • dooraque, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Duh, totally hidden in an emacs distribution, a feature for years on any UNIX-like system
  • DnasTheGreat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3_How_ many times have there been articles on this!!

    It's not an easter egg. It's a documented feature of the Emacs editor, very common in UNIX environments. It has absolutely nothing to do with Apple at all.

    I would bury this as lame and inaccurate, if it were possible to do both.
  • rolfmblindgren, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Those of us who do have a clue not only know that emacs is a text editor available for a lot of operating systems, we also know how to start the games from the command line.

    emacs -f tetris
    emacs -f hanoi 4
    emacs -f dunnet

    and so on. you can also use Emacs for reading mail and news and for editing texts. much better to not run Emacs from the terminal, though, rather install Carbon Emacs from http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/carbonemacspackage.html
  • Tourney3p0, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0"...what, just because some people are smart enough to find surprises in their OS, it makes them "***** retarded"? Lose the ***** pottymouth, bud."

    Probably because they consider well documented standard features "surprises".
  • niczar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Buried as inaccurate.

    Such Unix illiteracy is hilarious. Some archeologist we have here, rediscovering emacs! "Hidden games in terminal" ... that's ***** hilarious.

    Hey looky, I found hidden swear words in TextEdit:

    1. Launch TextEdit
    2. Type F, then U, then C and finally K.
    3. TextEdit displays a swear word!
  • inf4my, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0OMG SUPER MAC OSX GAMES!!!!

    If you want to play games on your computer and thats all...get windows
    if you want a unix core...get BSD
    if you want good looking desktop + a unix core...get FreeBSD or Linux with Beryl
    if you want a secure,virus free, good looking, free, unix-like operating system....get FreeBSD with Beryl
    if you want to an artsy operating system that is not free but still unix-like and you want to play games like WoW or WC3...get OS X = FreeBSD + OpenDarwin + Artsy Gui

    If I have one more person tell me that Mac's are good because they are better for creating websites than windows computers im going to kill them....There is a little company called Adobe that makes the professional standard in this field and last time i checked makes the same products for both platforms.


    • BigBadHoss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1
      But its easier to do because its on a mac!

  • inf4my, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0@luvkit

    Too bad linus torvald is kindof a dickhead and fanatical.
  • noamsml, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's neither hidden, nor OSX, it's one of emacs's many strange yet documented functions.
  • etechonline2002, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1its time to dust of the old os X box.
  • BigBadHoss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Its funny how so many mac users always think they've found something like an easter egg, only to discover that its part of the Unix system that OS X is built on. Damn shame, OS X dosen't get enough credit for what it is :). Too bad Apple didn't take Linux under its wing.
  • Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1sheesh
    another video on metacrape
    the crapple praise
    fanboyism and video spam
    and i can be compleatly unbiased by includeing the words winshmos and cringux (cringe and linux)
  • thudbar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Alternate way: Open Emacs and use the builtin menubar; Tools > Games > ...

    But really, it isn't Mac-specific.
    • Atomic1fire, on 02/16/2008, -0/+1exactly
      you can also pull this off in windows
      Install gnu emacs windows
      extract folder
      open emacs
      press esc+x
      type tetris
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