3D Pong 0.5 review

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3D Pong is a one- or two-player, three dimensional sports game, based on the first arcade game ever made, "Pong" from Atari.

License: Freeware
OS: Mac OS X
File size: 32K
Developer: Sylvain Cuaz
Price: $0.00
Updated: 17 Aug 2005
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3D Pong is a one- or two-player, three dimensional sports game, based on the first arcade game ever made, "Pong" from Atari. Each player controls their "paddle" with the mouse, and tries to score by bouncing a ball into the other player's goal (just behind the paddle).

3D Pong is a vector-based graphics X-Window game for Unix.

Mac OS X users can run 3D Pong under X-Window thanks to the Fink project.

Here are some key features of "3D Pong":
Game Play:
1 player against the computer
1 player in "handball" mode
2 players, networked
User-defined gravity level
With or without a deflective "net"

Display Modes:
Red/Blue split mode for true 3D using 3D glasses!!!
Six viewing positions:
First Person POV from behind your paddle
"Bleacher" view from the side of the game arenta.
Above view.
Freely rotatable mode (using the mouse)
A dizzying "follow the ball" mode
Follow the paddle mode.

What's New:
Made command-line options "--longoption"-style.
Added "--help" option to show usage.
Manual page contributed.
Changed references to "server" (as in X11 server) to "display"; less ambig.
Created "docs" subdirectory for documentation.
Split credits, changes and installation stuff out of Readme.
Created a basic TODO.txt.
Renamed "makefile" to "Makefile", and cleaned up.
Created "examples" subfolder; brought back example scripts.
Renamed demo scripts ("go" and "handball") to 3dpong-*.sh.
Added "$*" to arguments in demo scripts (so you can, e.g., add "-sound")
Added "install" and "uninstall" targets for makefile.

Requirements:
You must have Fink insalled. Get it from here : http://fink.sourceforge.net/download/index.php?phpLang=en

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