So I finally got this thing working and robust enough to transport and demo it. I'm working on borrowing a real video camera so you can actually see the vector shapes. But for now....here's a couple of phone grabs from last Thursday's CCCKC meetup.
training speed:
kick-your-ass speed:
Who knew Pong could still be that much fun? And they were sober too! My 8 year old nephew and 5 year old niece came over and played for 30 minutes straight and loved it. I'm stoked at how it turned out.
The game is living in my Asteroids Deluxe cabaret and uses the stock WG 15V2000 monitor. Score runs to 21 and is displayed using 7-segment LEDs behind the smoked plexi. The control panel consists of a paddle control knob and serve button for each player and a common "start" button. The ball's vertical and horizontal speed are seperately (and smoothly) adjustable via pots on the game board.
The short technical details: An analog computer is doing real time collision detection and drawing vectors (the ball is a true circle, the paddles are pentagrams). Audio and score are 5 volt random logic. There is no CPU....everything is discrete with no software at all (yay!).
Whadya think?
training speed:
kick-your-ass speed:
Who knew Pong could still be that much fun? And they were sober too! My 8 year old nephew and 5 year old niece came over and played for 30 minutes straight and loved it. I'm stoked at how it turned out.
The game is living in my Asteroids Deluxe cabaret and uses the stock WG 15V2000 monitor. Score runs to 21 and is displayed using 7-segment LEDs behind the smoked plexi. The control panel consists of a paddle control knob and serve button for each player and a common "start" button. The ball's vertical and horizontal speed are seperately (and smoothly) adjustable via pots on the game board.
The short technical details: An analog computer is doing real time collision detection and drawing vectors (the ball is a true circle, the paddles are pentagrams). Audio and score are 5 volt random logic. There is no CPU....everything is discrete with no software at all (yay!).
Whadya think?



