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Doing "text mode 'splash' game" during boot

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Mar 15, 2026403 views
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Problem

Sometimes I want to do something (for example, playing a simple text-mode game) while the system is booting up. This is especially useful when lengthy reiserfs transaction replays are happening. Current hacky way of doing it is: Put the program on initramfs. Before running , "openvt 2 /my/program".…

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/sbin/init

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Fix for: Doing "text mode 'splash' game" during boot

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Buy a copy of Paper Pong. http://paperconsole.com/paperpong.html (With higher karma I would have posted a picture of page 2 where the paddel and ball is visible. you turn to page X to move the paddle up, and page Y to move the paddle down).

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