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we are looking at hidden games that are built in to your iMac now these aren't
call of duty or anything like that these are simply basic games like Tetris, pong
these are all built-in and accessible through the terminal command which we
are going to look at now. okay so the first thing you need to do is open
terminal up you can do this multiple different ways on your Mac, so I like to
to go into the search bar (Launchpad) and if you just start to type terminal
you'll see it in the results, you can also if I just come out of here
you can also go at the top a search in the top corner of your Mac screen it
click on the search and in there start to type terminal it will pop-up and
also you can find it if you go into your again go into your search tool (Launchpad) go into the
other section and terminal is in here. So click on terminal open terminal up and
then I'm presented with this terminal interface so the first we need to do is
type in Emacs and type in Emacs this is also gives us to the first section that
we need to access the games like so they are basic games that are built in but we will
look at this. So type in Emacs push enter or return and you're presented with more
text so I'll just expand that slightly can see that if that is all the screen
so once you're at this screen you need to then push the Escape key on your
keyboard this then puts the prompt if you look right at the bottom of terminal
window you'll see that it actually says escape and that was also pushing this
gate key which puts the prompt in this section here
once we're at this point now we now need to push X which will put an or command
in which you'll see replace the escape command here and the M minus X is there
now, so now we can type in again that we want
but because we don't know the list of games that are on the Mac we could do it
finding out what that is before we type anything in. I do know what the games are
but I'm not going to type it in as yet. I'll leave this window open, and
now we can do we've opening a Finder window just to see what games and what
command we need to give, so I'll open finder and I would just put it on the
same desktop that I have open here, so these are our this is our finder and this is
our terminal window so now I just need to find the games so when you now
need to go to the command that allows us to access the games, so we click
and make sure it says finder in this top left hand corner we've got finder
selected click on GO and then we need to go down to where it says it "go to
folder". Click on the go to folder and this will bring up another box and then in
here you need to type in this command that I have already put in which is
/usr/share /emacs/
22.1/lisp/play - and once you've done that and click go it
will then take us to this folder, so now we can see these are all the games that
are in this folder that is has taken us to, you'll notice you can sort here in this
section itself where it says name / date / modified / size and kind, if you click on
the kind it will organize them into the type of file that they are, so you click
on that one you can see then it lists them into these different ones these are
purely documents for these games here and these are all the games are built in
so you can see this solitaire built in snake pong there's even a psychiatrist
built in some of these games don't offer much instructions so they can be a
bit obscure and a bit tricky to sort of navigate but the obvious ones that we
know that we're all used to is tetris and pong so now we have this list there
I'll just type in back to the terminal command here and
then obviously make sure it's still in this section where it says M- X and
I'll type in their pong and then all of a sudden we're playing pong game. We
use the arrow keys to to control each of the paddles.
That's the pong game and that's how to access the games and play the games once
you score you'll see the score there on this particular game at the bottom.
Just close this one down and then we'll open another game up, so we'll open the
well it's not really a game but if I open the psychiatrist one so the
psychiatrist one is called doctor which you can see this is our game here
highlighted here so we just need to tap the first bit of this game in pretty
much like we just did with pong which we typed in pong so make sure that you've
pushed X to get back to command prompt back on so here if I type doctor, push
return or enter obviously you can type in here whatever you want.
OK so that's it that's how to access the secret games built into your Mac I
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