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Monday, September 04, 2006

Hidden Games in Mac Terminal

If you are an apple computer owner, you might be interested to learn that there are hidden games in your computer terminal. While they are not very glamorous and you may not play beyond one game, it's still cool to know that you have embedded games somewhere inside the convoluted brain of an Apple engine.

Why is it such a thrill to me? Because it feels like I've stumbled on an inhouse Apple secret!

Follow the steps below to find where your games are:

1. Open the finder
2. Open Applications
3. Open Utilities
4. Open Terminal
5. type "emacs"; click enter
6. Press ESC + X at the same time
7. Type "tetris"
8. Play Tetris! Use the arrow keys to move and rotate the blocks, and press the space to make the blocks fall.
This isn't really a part of the Mac OS, it's a part of emacs which is part of the UNIX system. Most Mac users don't know this is included with their computer. There are many more games included as well. To know what other games are included, do the following:
Open the terminal again, at the prompt type:
"ls /usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/play"
Don't forget the space!
You'll get a directory of the games included with emacs,
to play these games do the same thing as with tetris,
except type your chosen game's name in place of tetris.

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