[the_old_crowd] Retro-game (OT)

[silmariel]

Kneasy:
> Those that struggled and cursed with pre-GUI computers (ah! that
> heady day when you up-graded to a PC-AT with 1 Meg RAM and a hard
> disk all of ooh! a massive 30 Meg) may remember with nostalgia the
> old text-based adventure games.
> Well, if you've a Mac running OS X there's one buried deep in its
> innards, lurking in the UNIX emacs text editor.
>
> Go to Utilities - Terminal, fire it up and type in
> emacs -batch -l dunnet
> Hit Return and:
> "You are at a dead end of a dirt road. The road goes east. In the
> distance you can see that it will eventually fork off."
>
> If you're a Mac user you probably knew about  this already. So why
> didn't you  tell me?
>
> If you're not a Mac user - tsk, tsk, tsk.
>

I also didn't know, but it works in my linux terminal with the same command. 
That's the second holyday present, the first being the 'Xmas story. It is not 
in my traditions, so it's the fisrt time I hear it (virtually speaking).

The first game I owned (and ended) was of that kind, Gremlins (1984), in my 
fisrt computer, Commodore 64.

But there's more...

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html
Emacs 21 runs on these operating systems regardless of the machine type:

    * AIX 4.3.3 and higher
    * FreeBSD
    * GNU/Linux
    * Mac-OS X
    * MS DOS
    * MS Windows
    * NetBSD
    * OpenBSD
    * Solaris
    * SunOS
    * Ultrix

In desperate cases, you can give a try with a knoppix type distribution. Burn 
a cd with it, it is a linux distribution that does't install ot touch 
anything on your computer, so once you end the session, all memory of it 
dissapears.

http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html

I think ewe2 can give us further information on the subect, I'm a lazy linux 
user.

Silmariel