UNIX Games

[Laser47]

Well I was bored so I wanted to learn the workings of Unix and found a sweet little piece of code to enter into terminal

/usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/play

Which gives you this;

5x5.el          dissociate.el   gametree.elc    meese.el        solitaire.elc
5x5.elc         dissociate.elc  gomoku.el       meese.elc       spook.el
animate.el      doctor.el       gomoku.elc      morse.el        spook.elc
animate.elc     doctor.elc      handwrite.el    morse.elc       studly.el
blackbox.el     dunnet.el       handwrite.elc   mpuz.el         studly.elc
blackbox.elc    dunnet.elc      hanoi.el        mpuz.elc        tetris.el
bruce.el        fortune.el      hanoi.elc       pong.el         tetris.elc
cookie1.el      fortune.elc     landmark.el     pong.elc        yow.el
cookie1.elc     gamegrid.el     landmark.elc    snake.el        yow.elc
decipher.el     gamegrid.elc    life.el         snake.elc       zone.el
decipher.elc    gametree.el     life.elc        solitaire.el    zone.elc

Those are infact games included emacs which is a part of Unix and you can actually play them in terminal
1. Open terminal
2. Type emacs
3. Press Esc+X
4. Type in the game you want to play

 

[risc]

Those are infact games included in the Unix filesystem and you can actually play them in terminal

Emacs is a text editor NOT the UNIX file system, and yes it includes everything including the kitchen sink.

 

[Laser47]

Emacs is a text editor NOT the UNIX file system, and yes it includes everything including the kitchen sink.

My bad, I meant It was part of emacs which was a part of Unix. Atleast thats what the article I read told me

 

[risc]

It is in most UNIX or UNIX like OSes but it definitely isn't part of UNIX. Indeed you would get shot for saying it was part of UNIX if you spoke to the people who wrote the GNU (GNUs Not UNIX) version that came with OS X.

I love the emacs doctor that thing drives me nuts.

 

[jhu]

ah, well, who needs a gui when emacs does everything?

 

[Doctor Q]

If you make your Terminal window wide, you can type "banner whatever" where whatever is replaced by your favorite word or phrase.

You can have fun for hours!

Well, more accurately, for about 0.01667 hours.

 

[skoker]

EDIT: Pagination SUCKS!

 

[Doctor Q]

EDIT: Pagination SUCKS!

I'm not sure what you tried to do, but you might be in need of the banner -w switch, to limit the width of the banner display.

% banner -w 60 skoker
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[risc]

ah, well, who needs a gui when emacs does everything?

Yeah it is an insane app seems to be an OS all to itself.

 

[jhu]

Yeah it is an insane app seems to be an OS all to itself.

hmmm... now there's an idea, tack on some boot code, video driver, keyboard driver, generic ide driver, and it becomes a full-fledged os!