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glen ep ropella

Telehack

I know some of you are old geezers and would appreciate this bit of
history as much as I do:

http://telehack.com/

cf:
Playable Archaeology: An Interview with Telehack's Anonymous Creator
http://waxy.org/2011/06/playable_archaeology_an_interview_with_the_telehacks_anonymous_creator/

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Russ Abbott

Re: Telehack

Command-line processing is considered cool these days. Some of my best students insist on doing as much as they can that way. When I ask them why they say it's the power. Next thing you know they'll be coding in assembly language--or raw C.

On Apr 30, 2014 4:58 PM, "glen e. p. ropella" <[hidden email]> wrote:

I know some of you are old geezers and would appreciate this bit of history as much as I do:

http://telehack.com/

cf:
Playable Archaeology: An Interview with Telehack's Anonymous Creator
http://waxy.org/2011/06/playable_archaeology_an_interview_with_the_telehacks_anonymous_creator/

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Arlo Barnes

Re: Telehack

I found and signed up for Telehack a few months back, but have not done too much with it.
FriAM-ers may also enjoy the Super Dimension Fortress, which despite the name is less gamelike than Telehack.
Of course, if you want something less expansive, there is always hackertyper.net (for when you want the appearance of terminal-fu without having to learn anything) and Jurassic Systems (for when you know this, because it is a Unix system).

Why I like CLIs is that, when they are well-designed, they get out of your way much more than the best GUIs do.

-Arlo James Barnes

Russ Abbott

Re: Telehack

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I'll bet you also use Sublime text--and with a black background.

On Apr 30, 2014 7:45 PM, "Russ Abbott" <[hidden email]> wrote:

Command-line processing is considered cool these days. Some of my best students insist on doing as much as they can that way. When I ask them why they say it's the power. Next thing you know they'll be coding in assembly language--or raw C.

On Apr 30, 2014 4:58 PM, "glen e. p. ropella" <[hidden email]> wrote:

I know some of you are old geezers and would appreciate this bit of history as much as I do:

http://telehack.com/

cf:
Playable Archaeology: An Interview with Telehack's Anonymous Creator
http://waxy.org/2011/06/playable_archaeology_an_interview_with_the_telehacks_anonymous_creator/

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Tom Carter

Re: Telehack

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rain . . .

Ah, the joys of curses on a vt100 . . . :-)

tom

On Apr 30, 2014, at 4:57 PM, glen e. p. ropella <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> I know some of you are old geezers and would appreciate this bit of history as much as I do:
>
> http://telehack.com/
>
> cf:
> Playable Archaeology: An Interview with Telehack's Anonymous Creator
> http://waxy.org/2011/06/playable_archaeology_an_interview_with_the_telehacks_anonymous_creator/
>
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Marcus G. Daniels

Re: Telehack

On 4/30/2014 11:57 PM, Tom Carter wrote:
> Ah, the joys of curses on a vt100 . . . :-)
>
>
Install `ed' and learn how to navigate a program only using regular
expressions.
No excuses, it's still maintained (below). Curses?? What's that
pattern matching using the visual cortex? The neocortex is where the
action is. Sheesh!

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ed/

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Owen Densmore

Re: Telehack

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On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Russ Abbott <[hidden email]> wrote:

I'll bet you also use Sublime text--and with a black background.

Well, the hot dude nowadays is Atom, from GitHub. And yup, you can have all the Sublime themes as well as the TextMate ones.

-- Owen

Russ Abbott

Re: Telehack

Show how behind-the-times I am. I had never heard of atom. The atom web page has a Mac download. Should I be totally embarrassed to ask whether there's a Windows version. (Now I see that the faq says not yet.)

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On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Russ Abbott <[hidden email]> wrote:

I'll bet you also use Sublime text--and with a black background.

Well, the hot dude nowadays is Atom, from GitHub. And yup, you can have all the Sublime themes as well as the TextMate ones.

-- Owen

cody dooderson

Re: Telehack

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type starwars into it.

Cody Smith

On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Russ Abbott <[hidden email]> wrote:

I'll bet you also use Sublime text--and with a black background.

Well, the hot dude nowadays is Atom, from GitHub. And yup, you can have all the Sublime themes as well as the TextMate ones.

-- Owen

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glen ep ropella

Re: Telehack

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On 04/30/2014 10:57 PM, Tom Carter wrote:
> rain . . .
>
> Ah, the joys of curses on a vt100 . . . :-)

Not just rain!

http://youtu.be/I83eVi6b3Rw

Ahh, the irony of uploading a video of that to youtube. I feel like
such a hipster.

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Steve Smith

Re: Telehack

I really enjoyed the mix of old and new on this one....

http://www.learningprocessing.com/examples/chapter-17/example-17-4/

My first "Computer Graphics" program was a program that allowed you to
place charges of different magnitudes on a plane and then calculated the
"field strength" on the plane and plotted it on a line-printer. Of
course I *then* did some *character* image printing, imagining I was
*inventing it* myself... I suspect it was the first thing anyone did
with the first line-printer that allowed overprinting!

> On 04/30/2014 10:57 PM, Tom Carter wrote:
>> rain . . .
>>
>> Ah, the joys of curses on a vt100 . . . :-)
>
> Not just rain!
>
> http://youtu.be/I83eVi6b3Rw
>
> Ahh, the irony of uploading a video of that to youtube. I feel like
> such a hipster.
>