In Terminal, type in the following command and hit Return: Luckily Terminal comes with a few old-school retro games that just about anyone is sure to love. Now that you’ve got a movie in it’s time to play a game. Sit back and relax while ASCII Star Wars plays out in front of you and if you have IPv6 you’ll even get color! Note: This is actually connecting to a site where Star Wars ASCII lives, so you need an Internet connection for this one to work. If at least number two is correct then open up Terminal and enter the following command in, followed by Return: First, you’re a pretty big Star Wars fan and two, you’d probably enjoy an ASCII text-based version of Start Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. If all that snow has you thinking of the ice planet of Hoth, then two things are probably true. Click the full screen button for a nice screen saver, too. This uses up about 5-10% CPU to run, so while not a huge power hog, you should probably close it if you’re taxing your system with other commands. The Terminal window will look a bit wonky when you end the snow, so type clear and hit Return to clear out everything that was typed. To stop it, hit Control + Z to stop the snow.
Immediately you should start seeing snowflakes fall and collect at the bottom of the screen. Once you have the window looking right, enter the following string into Terminal and hit Return: I recommend Pro for the best white on black effect. Launch Terminal and hit Command + i on your keyboard to change Terminal’s theme. It’s that time of year again when the snow falls as much as the temperature, but if you haven’t seen enough snow yet or just want some right on your desktop you can make Terminal into a tiny UNIX snow globe with a simple command.īefore you enter it, however, you probably want to change how Terminal looks to get the full effect. Here are 5 fun Terminal commands to try right now.
The utility at the heart of OS X, Terminal can do just about anything and is already known for some pretty interesting tweaks, but there are some less dangerous and more fun commands you can enter into Terminal and have some fun while you’re at it.
When people think of fun they rarely think of Terminal.
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