Welcome to the home of Pong!

What?

Pong is a simplified version of Ping Pong for the computer, popularized on the Atari 2600. Two paddles at opposite ends of an empty playing area can move in one dimension only. A single ball bounces around the screen, and the players duke it out trying to get points by making the other player miss the ball.

This is the home of a project to create an implementation of Pong using the C language and the SDL game library.

Current Status: ball bounces smoothly at arbitrary angles. Working on the menu.

Why?

We are making Pong for several reasons:

We've failed to program Pong numerous times before and need to finally succeed.
To learn Simple Directmedia Layer, a game library.
To learn game programming, so we can make better games.

Who?

See the README below.

Where?

Downloads

Note: These require SDL.dll to be in the current directory (get a Zip file containing SDL.dll).

README	Brief documentation on Pong
pong-cygwin.exe	Win32 binary, compiled under cygwin
pong-vsnet2003.exe	Win32 binary, compiled under Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003

Public CVS

Pong through ViewCVS

Anonymous CVS is available. Set your CVSROOT environment variable to ":pserver:anonymous@bespin.org:/var/lib/cvs/pong".

cvs login

Press Enter for the password.

cvs co pong

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