Re: Bill Budge & pinball

[s924105@yallara.cs.rmit.OZ.AU (Cameron Silver)]

aa382@Freenet.carleton.ca (Marc Sira) writes:


>If anything would be taxing, it would be providing a "realistic" enough
>simulation of a pinball bopping around inside a machine. You'd probably
>want it to simulate the physics involved at a resolution a bit higher than
>what's actually displayed on the screen, for instance. I still don't imagine
>it would particularly tax the machine (though I'll readily cede to any 65816
>programmers waiting to pounce on this thread)...the thing would be to have
>really slick graphics and (especially IMO) sound. 

All of this would be great in a pinball game, but I think that if a 
construction program was to be written, then there would need to be many
more options then just the physical layout. Idealy, a mini programming
language could be designed to make the constructedpinball 'machines' anything
the constructor likes! ... 

Cameron Silver