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pong: Pong Home Video Game Emulator

NAME

pong - Pong Home Video Game Emulator

SYNOPSIS

pong [-display host:display.screen] [-foreground color] [-background color] [-window] [-root] [-mono] [-install] [-visual visual] [-clock float] [-noise] [-fps]

DESCRIPTION

The pong program simulates an ancient Pong home video game, as well as various artifacts from displaying it on a color TV set.

OPTIONS

pong accepts the following options:

-window

Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default.

-root

Draw on the root window.

-mono

If on a color display, pretend we're on a monochrome display.

-install

Install a private colormap for the window.

-visual visual

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.

-noise float

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).

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.

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.

TRADEMARKS

Pong may be a trademark.

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.

AUTHOR

Original Pong program by Jeremy English <jenglish [at] myself.com>. Scoring and television emulation by Trevor Blackwell <tlb [at] tlb.org>.