Greetings everyone! So this article is going to be a hit for all the Mac users out there who enjoy using Terminal for fun and games! Recently I wondered what types of Terminal uses could be had for a little fun and games. To my suprise I found quite a few answers and decided to share them with you all!
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Games
Okay so the cool thing about playing games in Terminal on your Mac is they are already installed, you just have to know how to access them! So below is a list of how to access these games.
First you have to load Terminal. Once you have loaded Terminal, in the command line enter emacs to access GNU Emacs, then press Enter on your keyboard.
Next once you see something like this (see below), hold Esc and press X on your keyboard. This will prompt at the bottom of Terminal M-x.
From there you can enter the name of any number of games below, then press Enter on your keyboard.
- 5×5
- animate
- blackbox
- cookie1
- decipher
- dissociate
- doctor
- dunnet
- fortune
- gamgrid
- gametree
- gomoku
- handwrite
- hanoi
- landmark
- life
- meese
- morse
- mpuz
- pong
- snake
- solitaire
- spook
- studly
- tetris
- yow
- zone
To quit the game, press Ctrl and X then Ctrl and Z.
Movies
You can also watch Star Wars Episode IV in Terminal! To do so is rather simple. In terminal enter the following command.
curl telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl:23
After tpying this command, press Enter on your keyboard.
After pressing Enter, the movie will play! It is downloaded via the internet and played in Terminal, altohugh I have no reaosn to believe the data needed for this is extensive. So for all you Star Wars fans, SET BACK AND ENJOY THE SHOW!