Terminal Tips: Play Tetris in Terminal
One of these "eggs" is the ability to play Tetris in Terminal. Here's how to do it. First, open a new Terminal.app (/Applications/Utilities) window and type "emacs," then hit enter. After the screen loads, press "escape," then "x." Type "tetris" (lower-case) and hit enter. There you have it, a fully playable game of Tetris. Use the arrow keys to control the blocks.
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Terminal boasts some cool, but hidden features that we like to call "Easter eggs." These "eggs" are hidden features that the developers...
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Yeah yeah yeah, but can anyone tell me if it's possible to resize the game - it's kinda narrow which makes it less playable.
December 06 2008 at 6:42 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyGawd, I thought Mac users were bad in the attitude department. Please have all your compadre's come here and complain I have not seen a snark fest like this in years. I jump for joy. Oh and thanks for the ctrl-x ctrl c hint. Emacs seemed a little sluggish dishing up the commands in the buffer. Seems like other things work faster in my simpleton exercises from my Unix for absolute morons.
October 04 2008 at 12:29 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIn case someone doesn't know emacs, press ctrl-x ctrl-c to quit.
October 02 2008 at 2:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWindows XP's Start Menu has a similar easter egg that lets you play minesweeper.
October 01 2008 at 11:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyYou can play doctor, another "Easter Egg...(lol)" by doing the same thing the article says, but replacing tetris with the word doctor.
It appears that TUAW has blogged themselves retarded.
October 01 2008 at 6:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThis made my day. :-D Emacs - the operating system disguised as a text editor disguised as a Terminal Easter Egg...
http://soi.kd6.us/2008/10/01/so-i-had-to-laugh/
I prefer my 338 lines of python :P
October 01 2008 at 1:30 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHot Apps on TUAW
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