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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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGqD-J_pRvs

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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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