Block-breaking game in vim 8.0

Re:Block-breaking game in vim 8.0 by hultner on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @06:11AM (#14694828)

For those who like this I can tell you about another thriving gaming platform...

Emacs! You can out of the box play all your favorites such as

   M-x tetris
   M-x snake
   M-x solitaire

Just as well as multiplayer classics

   M-x pong

To find out more and get the latest games check out https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryGames#toc1

Great OS, the only thing that's really missing is a decent text editor.

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Re:Block-breaking game in vim 8.0 by Asooka on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @09:52AM (#14695877)

Nothing beats Microsoft platforms for gaming though. Excel 97 has a built-in flight sim. Can Emacs do THAT?

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Re:Block-breaking game in vim 8.0 by melling on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @10:56AM (#14696191)

It was written with Excel macros or Basic, or someone wrote the C program and compiled it within the Excel binary?

The point of Emacs is that you can build this stuff with its Lisp language. I imagine that you can write a crappy flight simulator with it.

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Re:Block-breaking game in vim 8.0 by UncleSlacky on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @11:12AM (#14696319)

There's a decent Pac-Man implementation in Excel: http://www.geocities.jp/nchikada/pac/

Edit: I see he's added Space Invaders too.

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Re:Block-breaking game in vim 8.0 by tambourine_man on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @10:42AM (#14696118)

Or Hall Of Tortured Souls (Easter Egg) Excel 95:

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Re:Block-breaking game in vim 8.0 by kazinator on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @06:37AM (#14701300)

The question is: can Excel 97 do that with its extension language.

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Re:Block-breaking game in vim 8.0 by qb45 on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @07:03AM (#14695060)

And there was pinball in Microsoft Word 97.

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