pong - Pong Home Video Game Emulator
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Copyright
2003 by Jeremy English. Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its
documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice
appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
documentation. No representations are made about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It
is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
Description
The pong program simulates an ancient Pong home video game, as well as various artifacts from displaying
it on a color TV set.
Environment
DISPLAY to get the default host and display number.
XENVIRONMENT
to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources stored in the
RESOURCE_MANAGER property.
XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW
The window ID to use with --root.
Name
pong - Pong Home Video Game Emulator
Options
pong accepts the following options:
--window
Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default.
--root Draw on the root window.
--window-idnumber
Draw on the specified window.
--mono If on a color display, pretend we're on a monochrome display.
--install
Install a private colormap for the window.
--visualvisual
Specify which visual to use. Legal values are the name of a visual class, or the id number
(decimal or hex) of a specific visual.
--clock The score of the game will be the current time.
--noisefloat
How noisy the video signal should be (between 0.0 and 4.0 or so).
--fps Display the current frame rate and CPU load.
(-p1|--p2)mode
Set a player to either ai, mouse, tablet, kbleft (for W and S), or kbright (or just kb, for arrow
keys).
See Also
X(1), xscreensaver(1), xanalogtv(6x), apple2(6x)
Synopsis
pong [--display host:display.screen] [--foreground color] [--background color] [--window] [--root]
[--window-id number][--mono] [--install] [--visual visual] [--clock float] [--noise] [--fps]
Trademarks
Pong may be a trademark.
X Resources
Notable X resources supported include the following which correspond to standard TV controls:
analogTVTint, analogTVColor, analogTVBrightness, and analogTVContrast. They range from 0 to 100, except
for tint which is an angle between -180 and +180.
