pong(6x)

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version 6.17 · 10 versions
, in fedora 44

💖 pong — the Pong Home Video Game Emulator 💖

okay bestie, this is pong(6x) from the XScreenSaver manual, and it's literally the cutest little time machine you've ever seen 🕹️✨

✨ NAME ✨

pong — Pong Home Video Game Emulator 🏓

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

pong [--display host:display.screen] [--foreground color] [--background
color] [--window] [--root] [--window-id number][--mono] [--install]
[--visual visual] [--clock float] [--noise] [--fps]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so pong simulates an ancient Pong home video game 🫶 (yes, the original one, the O.G., the blueprint), and on top of that it also emulates all the various little artifacts that come with displaying it on a color TV set 📺. it's giving "we found this in the attic and it's iconic."

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

pong accepts the following options, no cap:

  • --window — draw on a newly-created window. this is the default, so if you do nothing, this is the vibe you get 💖
  • --root — draw on the root window instead. main character energy, filling the whole screen 👑
  • --window-id number — draw on the specific window you name. like, that window, the one you chose 🦋
  • --mono — if you're on a color display, pretend we're on a monochrome display. delulu, but make it retro 🖤🤍
  • --install — install a private colormap for the window 🎨
  • --visual visual — specify which visual to use. legal values are the name of a visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific visual. be precise bestie 💅
  • --clock — the score of the game will be the current time ⏰ like the scoreboard IS the clock, that's so clever
  • --noise float — how noisy the video signal should be (between 0.0 and 4.0 or so). crank it for maximum "the antenna is bent" realness 📡
  • --fps — display the current frame rate and CPU load 📊 stats girlies rise
  • (-p1 | --p2) mode — set a player to either ai, mouse, tablet, kbleft (for W and S), or kbright (or just kb, for arrow keys). pick your fighter 🕹️✨

🌸 ENVIRONMENT 🌸

  • DISPLAY — to get the default host and display number.
  • XENVIRONMENT — to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property.
  • XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW — the window ID to use with --root.

👑 X RESOURCES 👑

the notable X resources it supports include the following, and they correspond to standard TV controls 🎛️: analogTVTint, analogTVColor, analogTVBrightness, and analogTVContrast.

they range from 0 to 100, except for tint which is an angle between -180 and +180 🌀. yes the tint is an angle, don't ask, it's a TV thing, iykyk.

💀 TRADEMARKS 💀

Pong may be a trademark. (not me being legally obligated to say that 🙈)

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

X(1), xscreensaver(1), xanalogtv(6x), apple2(6x)

2003 by Jeremy English. Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. No representations are made about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Original Pong program by Jeremy English <jenglish@myself.com> 🏓. Scoring and television emulation by Trevor Blackwell <tlb@tlb.org> 📺.

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this came out of X Version 11, version 6.17-1.fc44, dated 13-Oct-2026 — go play some Pong, you've earned it, slay 🎀✨🦋

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