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Work has been slow the last few weeks and I got bored!

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Knute Johnson - 26 Aug 2007 00:57 GMT
So I decided to write a game again.  My favorite game as a young man was
Asteroids.  In fact in the late seventies I actually owned an Asteroids
machine.  This isn't finished yet and it doesn't have any sound (if any
body has some good ones for guns and ship explosions :-).  The code is a
mess and so it isn't here yet.  I would be curious how it plays on
slower computers.  The screen refresh is set at 10ms now and that may be
too fast for some computers, I don't know.

http://www.knutejohnson.com/test

Directions:
    Turn the ship with the arrow keys
    Accelerate the ship with the up arrow key
    Fire with the space bar

    If it runs out of fuel it cannot be maneuvered but can shoot
    To restart the game click the mouse on the screen

You can download the test.jar file and it will run as an application.

I would appreciate some feedback as to playability and any deficiencies
that you see in the game (other than sound).  There is no sound in space
right?  If you have a slower machine (less than a Ghz), try downloading
the test.jar file and resizing the frame to see if that makes it any better.

It does require version 6.

Thanks,

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Knute Johnson - 27 Aug 2007 00:57 GMT
> So I decided to write a game again.  My favorite game as a young man was
> Asteroids.  In fact in the late seventies I actually owned an Asteroids
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>
> Thanks,

It now has sound and I have changed the name of the jar file to
Asteroids.jar.

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