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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+45It's not a Mac thing. You can do this in any OS that can run Emacs, dumbass
- 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.
- 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... - amboy00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20We can't all have Minesweeper.
- JorgeArbusto, on 10/12/2007, -5/+23Umm, emacs does not refer to Apple Mac and Apple did not invent Unix.
- 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!!!! - 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, -5/+17Yeah, unless it's got a registry to edit all day it ain't *****.
- ikickass, on 10/12/2007, -4/+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 - 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 - SwabTheDeck, on 10/12/2007, -2/+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. - 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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! - seventoes, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12WHAT???!?!?!!!?!
- 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.
- venicerocco, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Worst digg post ever. Rubish on so many levels.
- fitchmicah, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7he's getting at the fact that this isn't a mac thing, it's an emacs thing...
- 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.
- arjayl642, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"reason 845,384,498 mac users are ***** retarded."
...what, just because some people are smart enough to find surprises in their OS, it makes them "***** retarded"? Lose the ***** pottymouth, bud. - amboy00, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8If only I could play them with a wii-mote!
- 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!
- 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. - tuartboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Nope, Woz did.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakout - 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 - Ulrika, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Perl > LISP
VIM > Emacs
President Ford > Pack of Wolves - noseeme, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Worse than this?
http://digg.com/apple/The_whole_film_was_made_on_a_mac_One_Six_Right - noamsml, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's neither hidden, nor OSX, it's one of emacs's many strange yet documented functions.
- 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 - etechonline2002, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1its time to dust of the old os X box.
- thudbar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Alternate way: Open Emacs and use the builtin menubar; Tools > Games > ...
But really, it isn't Mac-specific. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Duh, totally hidden in an emacs distribution, a feature for years on any UNIX-like system
- 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) - kdmaster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1that explains how vortex came to light in ipod games
- 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.
- BigBadHoss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1
But its easier to do because its on a mac! - priestofkost, on 09/02/2008, -0/+0If you want to spend outragious amounts of money while being raped by Wintelvidia just to play games: Get yourself that walmart special PC (The one for $10 with a $9 rebate) with that stone age OS called Windows.
If you want to buy a computer and do nothing with it but log into Yahoo to check your mail, type up an occasional word document and play solitaire while sitting on your fat ass all day long: go to the Good Will and get a PC for free.
If you want a Unix core: Buy OSX. It's comes with the best one on the planet at no additional cost. That way, you get the most powerful and stable gooey on the planet with a Core OS that has been schooling kiddie noob CL's like Linux for decades.
If you want to run a Post Production studio, do some VFX, Animation, Motion Graphics, Photo editing, Movie Making, Movie sharing/streaming, Video conferencing and the rest of the stuff the entire planet does with a command line: buy a bucket of rat poison and plug your nose. If not, buy OSX
If you want an OS that does not psychologically rape you with more pop up windows than stars in space, really poorly written drivers and the most pathetic third party apps the world has ever seen (an OS that lacks $11,000 of features you would otherwise get with Apple for free): Buy A WinPC
If your part of the techno inept world, then buy a WinPC. Oh wait. You already did. Sorry :(
If you want an OS that will encourage your thoughts of suicide rather than helping conquer them since your bad experience with windows, spend the next half of your life finding someone to install Linux for you. Now drive him away after 1 week and 11,000 tech calls later. Whichever comes first.
If you have an old PC around and don't have money to buy a real computer (Mac): Take it into your local mom and pop shop and have them put Linux on it. Oh wait, Mom and pop shops are all gone. Damn you uneducated pop-culture heathens!
If your a somewhat normal person, want to have nothing to do with a command line ( Which of course, you have never laid eyes on one) want an OS that lives up to its name (Operates your system) rather than windows, which is an unconcuerable obstacle that has successfully sold itself as an OS; (in large part due to a bunch of noob kids on Digg that think they know something) then Mac OS with an iMac is the choice for you. Never mind the social germs above. True to the pop-culture language they would use: they are a haters drinking haterarde. Oh and yes, Mac's are light years better at creating web sites than a poor Mans OS called Winblowz. If you knew anything about fonts, Digial Color Meter, Color Syn Utility, OGL, Aqua and Post Script PDF, you would know why that statment is true. Unless you mean a "web Page". ROFLMAO! Then yeah. Windows (The OS that sort of does things) should be fine. Don't make me pull my website out and slap you on the forehead with it chump. Ah, fine. You made me do it. BASTARD! What's next? After Effects is better then Motion? LMAO! Yeah, I agree with your logic. No not Logic the Application which your poor ass can't get. But you know, your pop-culture logic. The one that tells others than your pinto is somehow better than my Porsche. Yeah. That one. Shove it! Come talk to me when you have a $250,000 PPS and a few clients behind you. Running Win PC's won't get you there pal. It takes you further away. If I want a cheap render farm, I will Wrangle it myself with a few dozen Pc's running Fedora. That's right. As the Q Master or X-grid host douche bag. Lets see... A decent SAN solution for Windows or linux? Nah. Shake on Linux or Mac? Hmmm..... Not bad on Linux. But certainly no Mac powerhouse. Final Cut Server for Linux? Nope. Color? Nope. Logic Studio? Nope. Motion? No. Live Type? No. Why use Windows and Linux again? Because you, the retard says so? Nah. I have a life and a kid to feed. I put my money with reliability. That be Apple my pop-cultu foo! - priestofkost, on 09/02/2008, -0/+0Why? So it can crash just as much and keep it's light in the ass architecture? Apt-get install out of here. If I wanted no Gooey and raw power, I would run OSolaris or Free BSD and ***** all over Linus and his pathetic OS. But I don't pretend that the command line makes me smart or that I am special. I wont pretend that the CL will ever make a come back either. You Torvoids are worse than the Cult-like Christians. Your just plain stupid. Power= Free BSD. Gooey=OSX. OSX+BSD=Epic win! FTW! Now go fix your broken packages. Just make sure your not running that pile of Horse S**T called the Synaptic Package manager. Cause you can't do both without major problems Sir Hal. LMAO! Now I must return to my Fedora distro and do really cool Beryl desktop stuff that gets boring after 1 thousands of a sec and serves no purpose and is inherently anti-productive. Yeah! Actually, I would rather stick around here and fight with you about which is better! GNU? KDE? Beryl? Compiz? Beagle? Smeagle? Ubuntu? Fedora? STFU! Give Linus a reach around.
- priestofkost, on 09/02/2008, -0/+0OMG. All windows and M$ do is (1) support DX10 (2) Don't even do that well (3) Pretends Windows still has purpose (4) Encourages and propagates gaming for 50 year old loser ass bags that live at home, have no life, have fat ugly guy friends, no jobs, no chicks and leech off mom. Not to forget gamer losers that work their thumb muscles while melting their brain on drugs (5) Build hardware products that die the moment they are conceived (6) Release a disaster posing as an OS called Vista (The finally updated ME) (7) Has an OS that it's fart huffing loser troll consumers hail as the "best OS" called XP that is exactly 30,000 years older than Christ as of today (8) Exists only because of third party applications (Oops! I mean "Programs") like a disease that can't be cured. (9) Has a fat and sweaty teensy gorilla CEO running the company (10) Lives by the standard "When all else fails" Lie your ass off (11) Has yet to catch up to OS 10.3 Panther (12) Releases an OS that devours more Hardware resources than a black hole does Space Matter (13) Has to insult every intelligent techie the world over by calling us liars in their new ads called the Mojave..... something? (14) Is a trillion dollar company that has it's ass handed to it by the Open Source movement, Google and Apple on an hourly basis (15) Will give you hot dogs and rebates if you buy their product even though you don't want to (16) Creates a 50 ton glass slab with Pseudo touch capabilities and pretends that it is not more Vaporware + an 80's looking Pacman cocktail table from hell + Just more crappy M$ hardware... Just much, much heavier (17) Ahhh forget it. Wintards never learn.
- priestofkost, on 09/02/2008, -0/+0http://www.letta-ltd.com/eriks/
Now what were you saying about web sites douche bag? Show me some of your work. All the work you see is all Cinema 4D modeling and shading. Most compositions were finished in Shake. Motion Graphics were originally done in Motion of course. The rest sent to flash and Dreamweaver. All very easily done on a Mac. What I do in an hour would take your sorry ass days. Assuming we were equal in our computer skills. OS and application integration is key. Hardware is important too. But the bottom line is that I can create Web Sites with an OS that is light years beyond yours in a fraction of the time it takes you. I can even prove this to you on a broken down and detailed technical level with the same web Site for us both. Show me some Quartz compositions on Windows? Oh wait. Your sorry ass can't do that either. Man... GTFOOH! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Good thing they found this, I was getting really tired of that sliding puzzle from System 7...
- PirateFSM, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Why so you can go out of your way to break that too?
- priestofkost, on 09/02/2008, -0/+0OMG. All windows and M$ do is (1) support DX10 (2) Don't even do that well (3) Pretends Windows still has purpose (4) Encourages and propagates gaming for 50 year old loser ass bags that live at home, have no life, have fat ugly guy friends, no jobs, no chicks and leech off mom. Not to forget gamer losers that work their thumb muscles while melting their brain on drugs (5) Build hardware products that die the moment they are conceived (6) Release a disaster posing as an OS called Vista (The finally updated ME) (7) Has an OS that it's fart huffing loser troll consumers hail as the "best OS" called XP that is exactly 30,000 years older than Christ as of today (8) Exists only because of third party applications (Oops! I mean "Programs") like a disease that can't be cured. (9) Has a fat and sweaty teensy gorilla CEO running the company (10) Lives by the standard "When all else fails" Lie your ass off (11) Has yet to catch up to OS 10.3 Panther (12) Releases an OS that devours more Hardware resources than a black hole does Space Matter (13) Has to insult every intelligent techie the world over by calling us liars in their new ads called the Mojave..... something? (14) Is a trillion dollar company that has it's ass handed to it by the Open Source movement, Google and Apple on an hourly basis (15) Will give you hot dogs and rebates if you buy their product even though you don't want to (16) Creates a 50 ton glass slab with Pseudo touch capabilities and pretends that it is not more Vaporware + an 80's looking Pacman cocktail table from hell + Just more crappy M$ hardware... Just much, much heavier (17) Ahhh forget it. Wintards never learn.
- Cheeseness, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Because they have a fairly well respected Unix text editor at their fingertips?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Did steve jobs really invent breakout?
- 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. - 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.
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