Mac OS X

Every Mac Comes With Tetris, Pong, Snake, and A Weird Version Of Solitaire

Emacs (not eMacs) is an open source project, bundled with every version of OS X. And it can’t be altered. I wrote about the Cookies recipe that Richard Stallman bundled with Emacs long ago. He also has some somewhat sexist dating tips and a bunch of other weird rantings that he bundled in there. But perhaps the best contribution is the games that Emacs comes with. These include doctor, dunnet (which would have been a great MMPORG), pong, snake, solitaire, tetris and the ever-so-popular gomoku.

These games are located in the /usr/share/emacs/22.1/lisp/play directory. But you don’t access the games directly. Instead, you use the emacs command. To get started, fire up Terminal, then run the emacs command:

emacs

At the “Welcome to GNU Emacs” screen (see below), you’re going to need to be very specific about the keys you use. Hit the Escape key.
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At the screen with the red text (see below), hit the x key.

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At the M-x prompt, type the name of the game I listed above that you’d like to play.

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Here, we’ll type snake.

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Press the Enter key and then you will be in the game.

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When it’s over, hit escape, then x and then type the name of the next game if you’d like to, such as tetris.

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