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Two-Player Pong Homebrew Arrives On PS3

Posted by timothy on from the overqualified dept.

Croakyvoice writes "Dragula96 has released the first 2 player Homebrew Game. Using the Blue Disc Java runtime on the PS3 and the Minimal BD-J (Java) Devkit, this will run on any PS3 on any firmware — Pong finally arrives on PS3."

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  1. FormerComposer by FormerComposer · · Score: 5, Interesting

    While not wanting to take away too much from this, in the early 80s, Radio Shack released a version of Breakout (the ball and bricks game) that had nine modes including 2-player versions in both cooperative and competitive modes. You could put English on the ball (square) because of the 2-D paddle motion (not just 1-D). In some modes (bricks at top of screen), gravity also affected the trajectories.

    For the Color Computer ("CoCo") -- 1K of RAM (included the screen memory) and 4K of ROM for the program. Don't remember if there was anything like a BIOS but I believe not. No OS, no virtual machines, or any of the fun things available nowadays.

    I spent many long nights squeezing my code into that tight shoe -- and along the way fell in love with the Motorola 6809 as probably the best designed microprocessor ever made. (I haven't seen anything since then to change my opinion on that.)

    The more things change, the more they stay the same ....

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    For most purposes, 355/113 is close enough.
  2. Re:more importantly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    it'll be exciting to see what else people come up with in the coming weeks and months.

    Asteroids! Hell yeah!