Re: Games
- Posted by don cole <doncole at ?acbe?l.net> Nov 10, 2007
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Al Getz wrote: > > c.k.lester wrote: > > > > Al Getz wrote: > > > It's interesting that this was brought up because i always wanted to > > > write a good pinball game where the user could have much control over > > > the play field environment > > > > Did you ever play EA's Pinball Construction Set? OMG that was fun. > > > > <a > > href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball_Construction_Set">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball_Construction_Set</a> > > > > I also loved Racing Destruction Set. > > Hi ck, > > > No, i never tried that and this is the first i've heard of it. > Radio Shack had a cheap pinball game back in 1980 that allowed some > changing of the field too. > I got my idea after playing some of the cheaper regular pinball > games and realized that it gets pretty boring after a fairly > short time so i thought it would be cool if you could change > the play table whenever you wanted to, and possibly have it > set up random also. I've played some really incredible pinball > games with really really great animated graphics, but they all > suffer from the same thing, and that's that they get a little > boring after a while, and this seems to happen no matter how > good they are. The 'real' tables however i used to play for > hours way back when. > I ended up getting more involved in chess sometime after. > I still think it would be interesting to have a pinball game > programmed in Euphoria of course, that we all could mod to our > own liking. > I do have one program in the archive which is a 'little' like > pinball, but it's not interactive. A whole bunch of balls > bounce around the screen and bounce into each other and off > of the walls. It's cool to watch the evolution of the patterns > that come about from the random collisions. > > > Al > > E boa sorte com sua programacao Euphoria! > > > My bumper sticker: "I brake for LED's" > While we are on games. I used to have a game called "Submarine Command". It was made for the Atari 2600. I had an Atari 800XL computer which also had slot for games etc... My cartige had problems. I've looked all over the internet for this game for the PC. A lot of sites talk all around it but I can't find anywhere to download it. Free or otherwise. Don Cole