Re: A85: IR link idea

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Re: A85: IR link idea


The iR thing for this tag game doesn't need to be too hard...  Just use 2
of the wires...  One to emit ir light, and one to pick it up!!   You could
even use different wave length receivers to have different teams!  I say go
for it!

Grant

>you know it might be useful if someone acually built a IR link and played
>the game.
>You scheptics have know idea as to weather or not you will like the game
>untill you actually play it. You might think that it is the greatist idea
>in the world, then after you play to see how it is you may realize that it
>is not nearly a much fun as you orignaly thought it would be. Or you might
>play, and find it to be alot of fun. All of your comments about weather or
>not you like the Idea are a complete waste of time because you have not
>acualy played the game to know weather you truely like or dislike the Idea.
>Besides most of the vaulable technology in the world comes form people,
>like us, chasing ideas that may not be the most popular, and then finding
>other ideas that are truely uniq and popular. If you quit worrying about
>weather or not the idea is good and start presuing the spinoff
>technologies, calculator technology will proceed in the forward direction,
>rather than sitting idle waiting for people to get past there thoughts and
>in to reality,
>
>-matt <matt.johnson@wmich.edu>
>
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>> From: Robert Caldwell <rc_ware@hotmail.com>
>> To: assembly-85@lists.ticalc.org
>> Subject: Re: A85: IR link idea
>> Date: Saturday, April 11, 1998 9:27 PM
>>
>>
>> i'd just like to say, i hate my image people see me as.  i don't like to
>> be a programmer and have people ask me "why did you buy a $200
>> calculator, do you have any games on it?" and i say "no, not yet" and
>> they say what a dumba** i am.  i hate that, but i would never stoop as
>> low as laser tag.  i mean it's a great game to play at night in the
>> fields with the actual head/body sets fighting several people, but in
>> the classroom with maybe 1 or 2 people with the IR link isn't very fun.
>> now if you want to do something real fun then make a program to be able
>> to scan the air waves for tv scanning, so that when the teacher isn't
>> looking turn on their tv and flip through the channels, freak them out a
>> bit--now that's funny (listening to them say "who's got a remote, who's
>> got it?").  i'm not against laser tag, but i am against a program that
>> involves many people, but only a few showup for, it's like haveing a 2
>> player hide and seek game.
>>
>> i've spoken my mind, and maybe others feel the same way, i don't know.
>> if you want to make a laser tag program then fine by me, i know how much
>> people enjoy MAKING programs and not actually playing them, so if you
>> made pong over again then that would be perfectly ok.
>>
>> -Rob
>> ICQ:9188921 "No Sol to kill"
>> e-mail1:rc_ware@hotmail.com
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>>
>>
>> {{Mike Young wrote:
>> >         I think that using an INFERED LINK for laser tag is a dumb a**
>> >
>> > idea.  Not all, but some people who program calculators already have
>> > loose public images that would be shattered by a bunch of , "Beuum!
>> > Kaboom! I got you! No, I got you first!"
>>
>> I hate materialism and this "oh I have to do this to be cool" crap!  I
>> know that I am not the most popular guy around my school and I know that
>> most of the other calc programmers aren't either (don't correct me if I
>> am wrong... you know the point I am trying to make).  But what I do know
>> is that if you are going to go around your whole life worrying around
>> your image and what other people think about you then your's is a life
>> not worth living.  I would rather have a fun, enjoyable life and have
>> everyone think of me as a total geek than trying to keep a 'cool' self
>> image.  I know that many others on this list would say the same thing,
>> too (in fact there was a discussion on this about a year back (not sure
>> if it was this list though, could have been the asm 92 list)).
>>
>> My point: live life the way you want; not the way others want.  If you
>> want to [try to] play laser tag on your calculator then more power to
>> ya!
>>
>> > Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, as well as contructive
>> > critizism, but for God's sake, use you d*mn heads!  Practacality is
>> > the key to usefullness.  So why doesn't everyone get back to making
>> > games?  How about that?
>>
>> Last time I checked laser tag was a game.  And besides, without new
>> ideas (however practical or impractical they may sound) where would we
>> be right now?  And besides, swearing your head off and saying how dumb
>> you think something is isn't exactly what I call constructive critisism.
>>
>>  - Jim
>>
>>
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