Comments on: Scope This Out http://grandtextauto.org/2008/07/16/scope-this-out/ A group blog about computer narrative, games, poetry, and art. Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:43:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Dennis G. Jerz http://grandtextauto.org/2008/07/16/scope-this-out/comment-page-1/#comment-288585 Dennis G. Jerz Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:42:42 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=1903#comment-288585 Given that the path of a tennis ball is a parabola, I think the profile view was almost inevitable on this platform. Have you seen the source code for A.S. Douglas's "Noughts and Crosses" (1952)? It's new to me. http://www.adit.co.uk/html/noughts_and_crosses.html Given that the path of a tennis ball is a parabola, I think the profile view was almost inevitable on this platform.

Have you seen the source code for A.S. Douglas’s “Noughts and Crosses” (1952)? It’s new to me.

http://www.adit.co.uk/html/noughts_and_crosses.html

]]> By: scott http://grandtextauto.org/2008/07/16/scope-this-out/comment-page-1/#comment-288072 scott Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:23:11 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=1903#comment-288072 There is a history channel program that shows how the game was developed and that you had to do english to score it was that boring. It wasn't until the ball changed direction frame when it hit the paddle that it became the game we all grew up with. There is a history channel program that shows how the game was developed and that you had to do english to score it was that boring. It wasn’t until the ball changed direction frame when it hit the paddle that it became the game we all grew up with.

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