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Article #995Re: Software Pinball Machine
From: Shane Fought
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 15:32
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 15:32
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In article <1992Nov5.135235.7388@meiko.com> gordon@meiko.com (Gordon Henderson) writes: >In article <1992Nov2.204624.24267@u.washington.edu> goble@hardy.u.washington.edu (Brian Goble) writes: >> >>I have programmed many arcade style games but never anything like a >>pinball machine. It seems very challenging and I am interested in hearing >>what others have done or how they might go about it. > >Does anyone remember the pinball games that ran on the Apple ][ ??? >(1MHz 6502 for you who don't rmember the good old days!) There >were at least two of them, and there was even a pinball creation game >system! (Author Bill Budge, but I may be wrong - it's been a *long* time!) > >It had a basic board area, and an area where you could drag the little >icons representing bumpers, pushers, flags, flippers and whatnot into >the board using a joystick! You could also draw scenery onto the board. >I seem to recall that it was quite fast too! > >All this was ... Oh ... 8 years ago ... > >-- > Gordon Henderson There was a similar program out for the Commodore 64. Pretty extravagent program for such a limited machine...
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Newsgroups: rec.games.programmer Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!usenet-feed.cc.umr.edu!mcs213j.cs.umr.edu!sfought From: sfought@mcs213j.cs.umr.edu (Shane Fought) Subject: Re: Software Pinball Machine References: <1992Nov2.204624.24267@u.washington.edu> <18899@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <1992Nov5.135235.7388@meiko.com> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 15:32:16 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: mcs213j.cs.umr.edu Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla Sender: cnews@umr.edu (UMR Usenet News Post) Message-ID: <1992Nov5.153216.29617@umr.edu> Lines: 25