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The Mac OSX waiting cursor, also known
as the beachball, is just that: a colorful
spinning ball. To provide some
entertainment in the time you have to wait
until your machine has completed its
calculation, a simple pong-like game with
the spinning ball cursor would be nice.
Just add two
bats, some simple bouncing
routines and hey-presto!
Cursor pong could be activated with a
simple keystroke or a hot-corner, like
Dashboard. Nothing fancy: a simple pong
game, programmed into the cursor routine
would hardly influence the calculation at
hand. At the end of the calculation the
game pauses for a dialogue: end the
game, or continue playing...
Plus: no boss-key. You always have a valid
excuse for playing.
while waiting for your HTML5 app to download data...
http://m.engadget.c...=classic&postPage=1
oh, and ]..+....[ [swimswim, Oct 01 2011]
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was hoping it would be the smell of an insult |
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Once I skunk you three times in a row, I believe you might make it cursor pong. For me: gigglor pong. |
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Why were you guys playing one-dimensional pong before? And how did one of you manage to score? |
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[Ehrm]//Plus: no boss-key. You always have a valid excuse for playing.// |
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Are you talking about the Metanet Flash game, N? |
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We were playing one-dimensional pong
because we were fed up with two
dimensional pong (Pong), tree
dimensional Pong (Tennis) and four
dimensional Pong also. Those disputes
about whether (and when!) is was 'out'
or 'in' are sooo tiresome in 4D. |
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[tree dimensional Pong] ehrm - what's that then? - a
christmas tree being whirled around that has been used
to clear a blocked drain ?? |
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Cursor pong? I did, but then she started showering more regularly. |
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[tree dimensional Pong] is the Irish name for tennis. |
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I like this idea. Please move it to a better category. I suggest Computer: Game. |
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could also be things other than pong - for example (what's the name of that game where you shoot rising ducks). Now that there are moving parts, it's a screensaver replacement (you then cancel it only with ESC) and could also be started by an pressing an icon in the status bar. |
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To prevent it from being annoying, the game graphics have to modify the desktop only slightly in the start, and if you shake your pointer, or move it before pressing an additional key, the game will disappear. |
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Make it depend in some random way on the user's data (shoot britney spears) and it becomes inspirational and the computer seems to have more of a life of its own. |
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Can I play breakout with the icons? |
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[ados], you're thinking of the game Carnival. |
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Yeah, dbmag9 it was a good idea also. |
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If you ever got tired of tennis pong, there was racketball pong and then if you got bored with that there was hockey pong. |
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