What's Emacs
Unlike what people think of and write of, Terminal game isn't the correct term to be used; Instead, emacs game is the correct term.
Emacs version 22.1 first supports Mac OS X on June 2, 2007. The complete story of emacs can be read from wikipedia: GNU Emacs, if you're interested.
How to Play Game with Emacs
- Open Terminal
- Execute command emacs
- Under emacs, type keystrokes Escape X
- Insert the game you want to play. There are several interesting games you can play here, such as: Tetris, Dunnet and Gomoku
- Later I will tell you where to find the listing. Now, let's watch emacs in action
The first one I played is tetris, followed by dunnet, gomoku and the last one is 5x5.
Where to Find All Playable Games
If you're using Leopard now, you can open your Finder and then Go to Folder (Shift Command G): /usr/share/emacs/22.1/lisp/play. Inside there you can find all playable features. But some of them are just plain animation and unfortunately, some of them cannot be played. Don't ask me why, I also don't know.
To jump from one game to another, use the instruction above starting from step 3. After something like M-x appears on the bottom of your Terminal, you can type in the game name and execute it.
There also other playable animations and games that are quite interesting:
- Animations : animate, life, zone
- Games : snake, solitaire, pong
4 COMMENTS (RSS)
Stolencheese
June 24th, 2008 Time: 06:34 AM
Okay.. I can't do it, I type in emacs and then escape X then I get a blank screen and I enter Tetris and nothing happens.. What gives?
Vick156
June 24th, 2008 Time: 06:42 AM
Same here... running Leopard 10.5.3 on a macbook....
Wendy
June 24th, 2008 Time: 09:15 AM
Hm.. I wonder why, it should work. After you've entered "emacs", did you see Welcome message from GNU Emacs? If you've successfully entered GNU Emacs, hitting Escape-X will trigger blue "M-x" text at the bottom corner of the screen. This is when you can type the game name, such as tetris and play it.
Tice
June 24th, 2008 Time: 04:23 PM
It's wrong. It works like this: Open Terminal and type emacs and hit Enter. Than you have to press the "esc"-key and also the "x"-key at the same time than enter "tetris" and hit Enter.
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