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In article <6NOV199208134420@acad3.alaska.edu> fxmlk@acad3.alaska.edu (KIENENBERGER MIKE L) writes:
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>Yep. This was the "Pinball Construction Set" by (as you said) Bill Budge.
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>The other really awe-inspiring Apple II pinball game was "Night Mission
>Pinball."  This game had a set playing field, but it offered zillions of
>configuration options.  Truely amazing.
>
>Taking a look at both of these games is definitely a step in the right
>direction for the design of a Software Pinball Machine. 

   All this talk of good pinball machines brings to mind the recent release
of a *superb* game by Amtex called "Tristan Pinball".  It was originally
done on the Macintosh, but has since been ported over to the IBM market.
It runs in 640x480x256 SVGA (in fact it looks like they used the exact same
artwork as for the Mac version), and all of the sounds are digitized
samples.  It requires at least a 386, but that's probably due more to the
graphics-intensive stuff than to the physical calculations involved.
   As for the realism of the action, it is *very* good!  The ball's motion
seems to take almost everything into account, and it bounces off of
boundaries very cleanly.

-Mark-