{"author_link":"\/author\/sos\/","author_name":"Sos","author_uid":"1405","comments":[{"author_name":"triplefox","author_uid":"391","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 2:16am","epoch":1367201460,"text":"Works in VICE. The zip compression isn't supported by one of my archiving programs though!"},{"author_name":"BleuLlama","author_uid":"1591","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 2:33am","epoch":1367202480,"text":"I can't wait to read about the process for this one.  Mega cheers!"},{"author_name":"The Jahn","author_uid":"2485","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 3:07am","epoch":1367204520,"text":"... Woah. Nicely done."},{"author_name":"Chman","author_uid":"17883","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:52am","epoch":1367218020,"text":"Next step : analog pong, no programming, digital signals only !"},{"author_name":"Frib","author_uid":"3939","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:49am","epoch":1367225040,"text":"This is amazing"},{"author_name":"mrspeaker","author_uid":"9199","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 12:44pm","epoch":1367239140,"text":"now available on cassette!"},{"author_name":"PsenFilip","author_uid":"20764","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 12:55pm","epoch":1367239800,"text":"Pretty neat. Congratz for this prod."},{"author_name":"kewry","author_uid":"12789","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 1:08pm","epoch":1367240580,"text":"Those skills"},{"author_name":"Ragzouken","author_uid":"13822","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 1:11pm","epoch":1367240760,"text":"Certainly impressive! Am I missing the controls being explained somewhere? I was only able to work out the left players controls by mashing the keyboard :p"},{"author_name":"Sos","author_uid":"1405","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 1:14pm","epoch":1367240940,"text":"You need to configure joystick settings inside Vice. Joystick #2 is left player, Joystick #1 is right player."},{"author_name":"finefin","author_uid":"16498","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 1:24pm","epoch":1367241540,"text":"Sosowski, you are a true nerd, sir! I actually watched you soldering that usb cable. good job!"},{"author_name":"aquilicoco","author_uid":"22746","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 1:24pm","epoch":1367241540,"text":"Nicely done."},{"author_name":"matthias_zarzecki","author_uid":"3880","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 3:33pm","epoch":1367249280,"text":"It won't run on my non-c64-machine :("},{"author_name":"madeinpda","author_uid":"3749","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 7:31pm","epoch":1367263560,"text":"superb!"},{"author_name":"SamoojaMies","author_uid":"11043","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 9:15pm","epoch":1367269800,"text":"I am amazed. The game works nicely. Enjoyed the twitch stream also. Very good job :)"},{"author_name":"Gremlin","author_uid":"12047","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 11:49pm","epoch":1367279040,"text":"Awesome idea. I'm going to try this after I get back home."},{"author_name":"henrykun","author_uid":"5379","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 12:01am","epoch":1367279760,"text":"So awesome, really"},{"author_name":"vandriver","author_uid":"4241","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 12:02am","epoch":1367279820,"text":"motherfucking commodore 64. i salute you."},{"author_name":"Shigor","author_uid":"5242","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 12:12am","epoch":1367280420,"text":"I can't find any words suitable to describe this... :)\r<br\/>the game, when taken out of context, is... well pong. But the process of making it must be the awesomest in this LD :)"},{"author_name":"shinestrength","author_uid":"18234","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 12:25am","epoch":1367281200,"text":"So, so cool."},{"author_name":"GeorgeBroussard","author_uid":"8631","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 12:40am","epoch":1367282100,"text":"Ha! Mad scientist indeed. Incredible hacking job and making it on an original C64 is inspired. I set up both joysticks and tried to play myself. The ball is about 100x too fast! But I did manage to hit it back and forth a few times. Should win a technical achievement award for sure."},{"author_name":"gamaral","author_uid":"6878","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 1:31am","epoch":1367285160,"text":"I grew up coding C64 games from magazines, it was an awesomely nostalgic experience to read through your code, I can't remember much anymore, but you inspired me to go dust off the old C'."},{"author_name":"Martze","author_uid":"15824","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 6:17am","epoch":1367302320,"text":"Sosowski, someone needs to save you from yourself."},{"author_name":"jerombd","author_uid":"12512","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 11:24am","epoch":1367320740,"text":"You deserve a Trophy for coding the game on a C64! And the postmortem is interesting."},{"author_name":"lightnarcissus","author_uid":"20680","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 12:30pm","epoch":1367324700,"text":"Hats off for even daring to something like this. I read your blog post on this and my jaw fell down in amazement. Respect,good sir!"},{"author_name":"Gremlin","author_uid":"12047","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 1:56pm","epoch":1367329860,"text":"The ball moves faster than the paddles can react, at least on an emulator. But its a working C64 game in 48 hours!"},{"author_name":"Pierrec","author_uid":"1874","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 2:53pm","epoch":1367333280,"text":"It's hard not to give you 5\/5 on theme ^^"},{"author_name":"Misfit","author_uid":"10677","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 4:26pm","epoch":1367338860,"text":"damn, maybe I have to make vic20 game next time :D. thumbs up! Cool game."},{"author_name":"BenW","author_uid":"128","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 2:23am","epoch":1367374680,"text":"Fun game dude. It wasn't clear that the fire button actually did anything, you may want to make a note of that somewhere on the page. I'll be sure to play actual multiplayer when I get a chance."},{"author_name":"robc","author_uid":"15363","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 6:34am","epoch":1367389740,"text":"C64 for the win.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Fun little pong game - though not so much when you have the emulated joysticks setup in a weird way ;)"},{"author_name":"fr_automatik","author_uid":"14352","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 7:03pm","epoch":1367434680,"text":"Woah!\r<br\/>*Prrrrlllllllll*"},{"author_name":"Gravel","author_uid":"14886","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 8:52pm","epoch":1367441220,"text":"You are crazy."},{"author_name":"entrusC","author_uid":"15445","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 9:42pm","epoch":1367444220,"text":"Crazy idea. But perfect match on the theme. Still I'm a bit disapointed that you didn't solder real potentiometers on your C64 to play the game like it was meant to be played ;)"},{"author_name":"sittaman","author_uid":"21123","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 10:48pm","epoch":1367448180,"text":"Just for that odissey you described on the post mortem you already deserve 5 stars. Sos, you are sick! And I thought that McPixel was crazy."},{"author_name":"KunoNoOni","author_uid":"6464","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 1:11am","epoch":1367456760,"text":"Total props for doing on the C64. what a really cool idea :)"},{"author_name":"Misael.K","author_uid":"12802","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 6:09am","epoch":1367474640,"text":"Insanity or genius? You'll be the judge. This is impressive."},{"author_name":"tankete","author_uid":"21907","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 6:08pm","epoch":1367517780,"text":"Once I finally figured out how to get the control working, it was fun! Any way to slow down the ball? Nice job!"},{"author_name":"qdowngames","author_uid":"15224","time":"May 3, 2013 @ 5:24pm","epoch":1367601540,"text":"Kudos. Nice work, really."},{"author_name":"shawn42","author_uid":"571","time":"May 3, 2013 @ 9:13pm","epoch":1367615280,"text":"You sir are crazy for writing this.  Good work. Thanks for keeping LD interesting in ways I would not have imagined."},{"author_name":"fishbrain","author_uid":"3007","time":"May 5, 2013 @ 1:47pm","epoch":1367761320,"text":"....so ....beautiful"},{"author_name":"numpad","author_uid":"17264","time":"May 10, 2013 @ 3:59pm","epoch":1368201240,"text":"Awesome! Doing something on a C64 is great work!\r<br\/>I don't think this will win, but it's awesome. I think I also got a C64 laying somewhere in my basement ;)"}],"images":["ld26\/1405-00756f73ec1fdfa6ee89696c75056652.jpg","ld26\/1405-46dcb9413917e5055eac7c72a9661fc9.jpg","ld26\/1405-06fbe293e5be703bc7fa70708331dda8.jpg","ld26\/1405-5b7d80936a2a8f75e4f0e9eaa6ef5232.jpg","ld26\/1405-7cae71799081c527dd8ba190c517ccc1.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/sos.gd\/ponk\/ponk.prg","text":"Commodore 64"},{"url":"http:\/\/sos.gd\/ponk\/ponk.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/vine.co\/v\/bxw7IdIPE5F","text":"Longplay"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.viceteam.org\/","text":"Vice"},{"url":"http:\/\/sos.gd\/ponk\/ponksrc.png","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"26777","g_author":"1405","g_event":"LD26","g_eventkey":"16","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"26807","g_title":"PONK","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"216","g_commentcount":"41","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/1405-shot0.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/1405-shot1.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/1405-shot2.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/1405-shot3.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/1405-shot4.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"PONK in 1kb made on a real C64 in around 8h.\r\n\r\nHint: Press Fire button to <\/p>","title":"PONK"}