Inbuilt asteroids...

[grobda]

this for real?

 

[Macro]

now that is a neat easter egg, scope doesn't look bad either!

 

[guddler]

screw the game, I want the scope. I bet it costs a bomb and is the size of a small TV though!

 

[d-type]

Is that a vector device, the game looks possibly bitmap

 

[andyman]

Shame its discontinued

Andy.

 

[d-type]

I used to design and code embedded systems for monitoring stuff many years ago. Each one of them had a pontoon game built in, if you could find it. Whenever I'm learning a new language I always code a pontoon game as an exercise. Here's the original pontoon code from 1992ish (in Forth-83):

decimal

variable yt variable mt variable rnd

: rand ( x -- y ) rnd @ 31421 * 6927 + dup rnd ! um* swap drop ;

: my-go ( -- )

begin 10 rand 1+ mt +!

." My score:" mt @ dup . cr 21 >

if ." I've bust, you win" 1

else mt @ yt @ >=

if ." I win" 1

else 0

then

then

until ;

: Pont ( -- )

cr ." **Phil's Pontoon**" cr

begin 0 yt ! 0 mt !

begin 10 rand 1+ yt +!

." Your score :" yt @ dup . 22 <

if ." Twist? (y/n)" cr key 89 <> dup

if my-go

then

else CR ." You bust, I win" 14 yt ! 1

then

until

cr ." Again ?" cr key 89 <>

until ;

Ah, those were the days, no application server MVC, .net or event handling froth, it was all straight to the hardware (sighs...).

I also wrote a Microsoft Access VBA Blitz game as an Easter egg in a maintenance scheduling system for the baggage handling equipment at Chep Lap Kok airport in Hong Kong. The graphics were a bit limited...

D-T

 

[trm]

Excellent I'll be keeping an eye out for Pontoon on anything I disassemble now!