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LaserMAME: Playing Tempest In A Whole New Light

Posted by Hemos on from the big-and-beautiful dept.

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."

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  1. The coolest part... by Omar · · Score: 5

    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...

  2. Oh, the possibilities here by Meridun · · Score: 5
    Doesn't this just beg for someone to set up a game of Missile Command on the side of the Pentagon?

  3. Video Mirror Up by aardwolf64 · · Score: 5

    You can also view the MPEG at Zophar's Domain by going here:

    Video File

  4. No WAY would I play this. by Nidhogg · · Score: 5

    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."