Re: Nolan Bushnell on ZDTV

Ummmm I must correct you, Computer Space as built by Nutting was definitely
TTL logic only. I should know as I have fixed these turkeys since they
first came out. (Currently I have one spare CS 2 player boardset sitting on
a shelf, plus I made custom card extenders to work on the boards...I also
have good schematics sitting in my filing cabinets.) The game was fast
enough, but the play was a bit too complex, the rockets had inertia, The
shots would follow the direction of rotation of the ship, and the ships
would fall off the sides of the screen and re-appear on the opposite side,
people just weren't ready for this yet. It was also, and remains, mostly
boring.

This is not very vector, is it? Lets try and force this back on topic: Did
Nolan design any Vector games?

John :-#)#

At 12:07 AM 1/7/2000 +0100, you wrote:
>Not true, Computer Space used a microprocessor, but it was FAAAR to slow. The
>game played horrible (hence the failure of it).
>
>The 'new' TTL logic made it possible to make games a lot faster... :)
>
>(At leastm that's is what tey've told me. I don't believe i'll ever see any
>computer space in my life... :( )
>
>Rodger Boots wrote:
> >
> > Not to be nit picky (but I will anyway), there is no code for Pong, it
> was WAY
> > before microprocessors were used in games.
> >
> > Jeff Bovee wrote:
> >
> > > He doesn't claim to have actually written the code for Pong, he only
> claims
> > > to have created the idea for Pong, and how it should play and
> feel. There
> > > is a great article about it on Brian's site
> http://coinop.vintagegaming.com
> > > , seems like a truly interesting guy to listen to anyway.
> > >
> > > Jeff
> >
> > --
> > Windows:
> >
> > 32 bit graphical interface for a
> > 16 bit patch for an
> > 8 bit operating system written for a
> > 4 bit processor by a
> > 2 bit company that can't stand
> > 1 bit of competition.

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Received on Thu Jan 6 17:33:34 2000