Terminal Tip: Tetris

All of C.K.’s Terminal Tips so far have been very useful, too useful if you ask me. I want to use my Mac for fun things, and the Terminal can be fun as well!

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Tetris:
emacs Tetris

abbottpc.com, a site with tips and tricks for both OS X and Windows had this neat tip, so I thought I would reprint it here and let you all enjoy it, so here are the instructions via abbottpc.com:

Here it is:

1. Open a terminal window.
2. Type “emacs” and press enter.
3. Press escape+x.
4. Type “tetris” and press enter.

Now all you have to do is use the arrow keys to play.

- Left and right arrows move the piece side to side.
- Down arrow changes the way the piece will fall.

Pretty nifty, huh? And here’s a fun fact about this post, that shot of the terminal isn’t from my computer, rather it hails from Engadget phenom, and TUAW All-Star, Barb Dybwad’s Mac.

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Online tetris

Well this isn't much cool. Check out my site for online tetris

April 09 2005 at 12:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

gko

Isn't "do one thing and do it well" the philosophy of *UNIX*? The geek in me always wanted to learn emacs, but I never got around to it. I'm still a vi user after all these years, and for the most part, pretty much handles my needs.

March 26 2005 at 5:04 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

janeiro

shoot, that first part is supposed to say Ctrl+X, Ctrl+C. should have previewed before adding. oops!

March 25 2005 at 9:23 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

janeiro

+X, +C will get you out of emacs. (or C-x, C-c for the emacs people). its funny that i was just playing with emacs yesterday. what a strange program. historically its a text editor, but built to be so extensible you can use if for email, games, etc. if there's any program that goes against the Apple philosophy of a program that does one thing a does it well, it's emacs. i just want a text editor, is that too much to ask??!! nano and vi[m] (when i'm in a pinch) are just fine for me.

March 25 2005 at 9:20 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

magnus

I tried to write 'snake' instead of 'tetris', and it worked!

March 25 2005 at 8:58 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Alix

funky. It's not quite the same tetris I remember playing as a kid. But entertaining nontheless.

March 24 2005 at 8:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply