OpenEuphoria

Re: Games

• Posted by Al Getz <Xaxo at ?ol?com> Nov 11, 2007
• 592 views

don cole wrote:
> 
> ChrisBurch3 wrote:
> > 
> > don cole wrote:
> > > 
> > > 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
> > 
> > Hi
> > 
> > Describe it, specify it, detail its goals and objectives, link to its
> > graphics,
> > then
> > lets see who can reproduce it first 
> > 
> > Chris
> 
>    Well ... it has three views.
> 
> [1] map view (showing land and sea and other ships) if you go too close to
> land
> you run a muke)
> 
> [2] parascope view (as you would see the other ships through a parascope) Of
> course if you go too low you can't see anything.
> 
> [3] sonar view (looking at other ships a seen in a radar screen).
> 
> 
> also there is instrement view that is seen all the time.
> 
> showing:
> [1] depth
> [2] direction of travel
> [3] speed of travel
> [4] how long you have been out (there is no limit to this)
> [5] amount of air, if air goes too low you must surface.
> 
>  You start out with so many torpedoes
>   The object is too sink as much tonage as posible
>   Also the other ships can drop depth charges You must drop low and shut off
> all engines. 
> After a while you must go topside to get more air and refresh the ballasts.
> 
> It's been awhile I don't remember every thing. Seems it would be a lot of work
> to write in Euphoria.
> 
> Don Cole


Hi Don,

What kind of graphics are we talking here?  Really good views or
just minimal views like rectangles for ships?


Take care,
Al

E boa sorte com sua programacao Euphoria!


My bumper sticker: "I brake for LED's"

 From "Black Knight":
"I can live with losing the good fight,
 but i can not live without fighting it".
"Well on second thought, maybe not."