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LaserMAME: Playing Tempest In A Whole New Light
Effugas writes: "Seen on Zophar is one of the slicker hacks I've seen pulled off in recent memory: LaserMAME. A group of hackers actually patched MAME to drive a Pangolin QM2000 Laser Show Controller Card, allowing them "to play Classic Vector Games on large surfaces, for example we could play it on the side of a building, or possibly on the clouds." Tempest, Battlezone, Asteroids, and many other classics work perfectly--though, unfortunately, the Star Wars classics still don't work correctly. Still, the video is incredible."
Is what they're doing tomorrow...
Oct 26th, 2000: This Saturday, we are going for the first large scale Trial... In conjunction with our sister Company Light Wave Laser Productions, we will be playing LaserMAME on the side of at least a 6 Story office building, playing from the Club AREA 51, Pittsburgh, PA. 2100 block of Penn St. in the Strip District. Come check it out...
...and when the Citizens looked to the sky, they saw the giant vector-graphics in the sky.
They knew everything would be allright, Nerd-Boy was being called to the Commisioner's Office.
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Feminism is the wild notion that women are human beings.
I want one!
Oh, and can we make a (beowulf) whole block of these?
Imagine a group of hackers protesting a "no-arcade" local regulation with these mounted on rolling trucks, displaying Tempest on skyscrapers while driving around?
The right to offend is far more important than the right not to be offended. (Rowan Atkinson)
You can also view the MPEG at Zophar's Domain by going here:
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When I was just a lad my father gave to me,
a video game of delicious sim-pli-c-ity,
with bouncing balls and bleeps and bloops,
and paddles and switches and scoring loops,
a game I would remember my whole life long,
fun... (music sting) thy name is pong.
I recall the fun I had, playing the hours away,
pong'ing always was the climax of my day,
Now I'm a techie and what do I want most?
A thing to show my nerdy friends, a thing that I can boast,
Let them look with eyes of green up so very high,
and envy me my giant game of pong in the sky!
Chorus: pong in the sky, pong in the sky,
oh I'd like to play some pong before I die,
just take your Quake and Diablo and let them fry,
I just wanna play my pong in the sky!
You know it was one thing when it was console game and only a crowd of 3 or so could watch and see how bad I sucked at Tempest.
There's not a chance in Hell I would play it in front of a crowd of 500.
In the immortal words of Tim Allen, "I would rather smash my balls flat with a wooden mallet."