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Re: Software Pinball Machine

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From: Shane Fought
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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From: sfought@mcs213j.cs.umr.edu (Shane Fought)
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