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- From: francis@ircam.fr (Joseph Francis)
- Subject: Re: "sports" games for X-Windows
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.174714.24901@ircam.fr>
- Organization: IRCAM, Paris (France)
- References: <1993Jan4.171727.1874@mlfarm.com> <1993Jan6.174231.24783@ircam.fr>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 17:47:14 GMT
- Lines: 49
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- In article <1993Jan6.174231.24783@ircam.fr> francis@ircam.fr (Joseph Francis) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan4.171727.1874@mlfarm.com> ron@mlfarm.com (Ronald Florence) writes:
- >>My son, aged 14, would like me to build some sports-oriented games he
- >>can play on our little network of Sun-3/60s and 3/80s, running Open
- >>Windows. He plays in an EFBL rotisserie league via email, and enjoys
- >>xtank, xconq, xtrek, xmris, and tetris. He is jealous of friends with
- >>Nintendo or ms-dos machines with color displays and commercial games.
- >>I think he'd particularly enjoy X-Windows games based on baseball,
- >>football, or basketball. Any suggestions?
- >>
- >>Please reply by email. If there is much interest, I'll post a summary
- >>of replies. Thanks.
-
- Sorry about the first mangled reply: Ahem:
-
- Perhaps its just my orientation, but all I could think of building was
- xteth (with a pronounced lisp) - an X based tetherball game.
-
- You need a good 24-bit color X terminal, thin-wire ethernet
- connection, a long pole, crash helmet and boxing gloves. You connect
- one end of the ethernet wire to the top of the pole, and let the
- terminal hang down along the side. The wire cannot be too long or the
- signals attenuate too much - the terminal should just touch the
- non-static floor carpeting. The object of the game, like ordinary
- tetherball, is to wind the cable around the pole until it cannot be
- wound tighter. You put on the boxing gloves and crash helmet, and hit
- the X workstation as hard as you can to make it swing around the pole,
- winding the cable. Make sure you have the motorcycle crash helmet
- securely tightened to avoid having your brains bashed out if the
- workstation hits you in the face when you miss (I know how maladroit
- most programmers are). I would suggest that children under twelve wear
- shoulderpads.
-
- It is a visually exciting game, with full 24-bit color quality,
- especially popular in France. I know that tetherball hasn't really
- been adopted by rigid-wristed international sports organizations, but
- hey. Perhaps the EFBL rotisserie league will be interested.
-
- I know my friends are jealous!
-
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