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  Retro Gaming Hacks, Part 3: Add a Ball and Score to Pong
Subject:   Thanks for the lesson!
Date:   2009-03-10 18:02:42
From:   Dev_Brakiri
I followed you through all three parts, and am glad I did. This was as much a lesson in structured C-programming as in using SDL. (By the way, thanks for the hint to use sdl-config, that really saved my build process on FreeBSD 7.1). The "final" program looks a lot like some of the kernel modules I've browsed through, wishing they were written in Python. Now maybe I can understand them too.


Did you ever see the ball bounce into the end of a paddle, then bounce in and out down the length of it? It looks like a zipper getting unzipped until it's done, until you move the paddle again. Probably a side-effect of the surface destruction you mentioned already.