Show HN: 2048.cpp – Play 2048 in directly your terminal
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Re: Show HN: 2048.cpp – Play 2048 in directly your terminal
#2nice! how did you record the commandline as a gif?
Re: Show HN: 2048.cpp – Play 2048 in directly your terminal
#3nice! how did you record the commandline as a gif?
Not sure how OP did it, but I use peek. Pretty handy for readmes, even for showing clients stuff without having to deploy.
Re: Show HN: 2048.cpp – Play 2048 in directly your terminal
#4nice! how did you record the commandline as a gif?
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Re: Show HN: 2048.cpp – Play 2048 in directly your terminal
#5Very cool!
I noticed Wikipedia references another app for terminal in C: https://github.com/Tiehuis/2048-cli
Might be interesting to compare.
Re: Show HN: 2048.cpp – Play 2048 in directly your terminal
#6Type
telnet telehack.com
2048
Re: Show HN: 2048.cpp – Play 2048 in directly your terminal
#7Have we really come so far? This has to be full circle, right?
First we had a wave of “see what can be done in a browser!” kind of demos.
Which at the time was massively impressing, because nobody thought you could seriously use the browser for other things than documents and very slow and clicky applications.
These days impressive browser-based experiences are the norm and native software is often accused of being visually “boring” and inanimate.
And here we’re back at the beginning: a tech demo for a native app, in the terminal, trying to reproduce what was once a tech demo of what you could do in a browser, as if that’s somehow novel.
Just 30 (or more?) years after nethack.
I’m honestly not sure how to feel about that ;)
Re: Show HN: 2048.cpp – Play 2048 in directly your terminal
#8nice! how did you record the commandline as a gif?
If you’re on OS X, gifox is nice.[0]
[0] https://gifox.io
Re: Show HN: 2048.cpp – Play 2048 in directly your terminal
#9Another, in Python: https://github.com/darius/sturm/blob/master/2048.py
This one animates the sliding of the pieces.
The terminal input-handling might not work in your OS -- I gave up trying to find a nice cross-platform approach to that.
Re: Show HN: 2048.cpp – Play 2048 in directly your terminal
#10Type telnet telehack.com 2048 in a terminal
For other telnet games, there is milek7.pl with tetris, breakout and multiplayer pong.