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| Something to waste a few minutes on in the Terminal | |
| Posted by: beachycove on 2012-04-08 20:44:53 Erm, begin by opening the Terminal.... At the bash prompt, enter: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl You'll then have to hit return a couple of times before the magic begins -- and may the ASCII force be with you! | |
| Posted by: uniserver on 2012-04-09 08:19:24 pretty cool 🙂 i wonder how a Macintosh Se would render those ASCII graphics, whats a good terminal for MacOS? | |
| Posted by: IPalindromeI on 2012-04-09 16:47:56 NCSA Telnet, or even MacSSH. | |
| Posted by: jruschme on 2012-04-09 17:21:58 AppleWorks 4 or 5 should also be good if you can find a TCP/IP tool for comm toolbox. (IIRC, Black Knight has a free one.) JR | |
| Posted by: Anonymous Freak on 2012-04-09 17:40:16 MacTerminal is my favorite:  (Aw, crap, that link is going to die in a couple months when MobileMe iDisk goes away... I'll have to find a new domain host to move all my "random pictures to" before then.) Sometime this week, when I have a free evening, I'll boot up the Linux server (the rack-mount monstrosity underneath - a quad Itanium rig,) and the Mac 128 and MacTerminal over and try that URL on the Mac-cum-serial-terminal. Unfortunately, my serial terminal boot disk for the Apple IIc died, and I can't get ADTPro to work on the Linux box properly. | |
Posted by: Bunsen on 2012-04-10 02:25:53(Aw, crap, that link is going to die in a couple monthsYou can upload pictures as attachments to posts here, and use them inline. In fact we encourage it, because of just this issue. See the "Upload attachment" tab below the text entry box. There is a size limit, so if your pic is too large you may have to downsize it and provide a link to the larger off-site original. | |
| Posted by: Bunsen on 2012-04-10 04:44:56 For some more interactive ASCII sci-fi fun, check out the command-line Star Trek game, a port to Javascript (ie, playable in your browser) of one of the earliest popular computer games. http://nerici.org/bloggo/p/trek/code/trek.html | |
| Posted by: IPalindromeI on 2012-04-15 09:05:01 Thought I'd test NCSA Telnet in an emulator | |
| Posted by: olePigeon on 2012-04-19 13:23:04 You can also telnet to nethack.alt.org for some Nethack. It's actually pretty fun because so many people play there, you run into a bones level probably 1 out of 5 games. | |
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