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Man, I suck at Tetris. It's now to the point where I lose every time, without fail. These days, all I can do is struggle for a few minutes before defeat, and then tell the victor that "at least I've seen a real vagina." This a*shole is really good - I played him for his job, as well as an invite to the Epic Games offices, and lost both times.

Imagine how much harder this game would be on an oscilloscope. I'll tell you one thing now: I wouldn't want to play Tetris against someone smart enough to build a game out of an oscilloscope. Better yet, I would never play anyone who claims to understand this:

With an R-2R ladder, a value expressed in digital bits can be converted to a corresponding analog voltage. The circuit makes the most significant bit affect the voltage with Vcc/2, the next bit with Vcc/4, the next Vcc/8 and so on. For instance, the R-2R ladder configuration for a 4-bit converter is as follows...

Lars Pontoppidan does understand, and he built this game called game called Scopetris. Witness geekdom at its finest as someone plays a good game of Tetris on modded electronic test equipment while listening to DRAX. That's like a quadruple geek whammy!


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wardrox's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/15/2008 09:16
wardrox
Electronic projects like this just make me tingle....

Also, not sure I should admit this, but in context I do understand that :-/
Neonie's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/15/2008 09:22
Neonie
Seems quite interesting
MiOdd's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/15/2008 09:25
MiOdd


..still the best Tetris ever
copulatingduck's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/15/2008 09:35
copulatingduck
Holy crap, I gotta try this!
Justice's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/15/2008 09:37
Justice
Incredible!
Orionsaint's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/15/2008 09:55
Orionsaint
So basically with the proper know how. Tetris could have been created in the 50s?
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/15/2008 10:15
Holyetheline
That is really flippin' cool. WOW
MechaMonkey's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/15/2008 10:32
MechaMonkey
Wikipedia says:

"An oscilloscope (sometimes abbreviated CRO, for cathode-ray oscilloscope, or commonly just scope or O-scope) is a type of electronic test equipment that allows signal voltages to be viewed, usually as a two-dimensional graph of one or more electrical potential differences (vertical axis) plotted as a function of time or of some other voltage (horizontal axis)."

myaimistrue's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/15/2008 11:04
myaimistrue
Holy crap, this is the most awesome thing i've seen on destructoid since the creature racing video!

I actually got an *copy-paste hard to spell word* oscilloscope at home, it was an impulse buy a couple of years ago at a flea market. Thing weighs like 10-15 kilos and cost me 20 Euros. Now i finally know what the hell to do with it!
Crapsh00t's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/15/2008 11:08
Crapsh00t
So I've downloaded the Maniacs of Noise D64 files, and have the CCS64 emulator... now how do I get the emulator to not pause when I select a different window?
mistic's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/15/2008 11:12
mistic
wow that is EPIC! unbelievable!
Crapsh00t's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/15/2008 11:13
Crapsh00t
Nevermind, I did something to the cfg file that I don't understand but it seems to work now.

That video is awesome, and so is Drax's music.
Orionsaint's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/15/2008 11:24
Orionsaint
The Beastie Boys are currently obsessed with the Oscilloscope. It's the theme of their current CD. Having gone back to the 80's and 70's. The 60's being overplayed. The Beastie Boys skipped the 60's and went real old skool to the 50's

http://www.beastieboys.com/Click on LAB



Tennis for Two was the first video game ever developed in 1958 on an oscilloscope which simulated a game of tennis or ping pong. Created by American physicist William Higinbotham, it was based on analog, rather than digital computing. The game is important in the history of video games as one of the first electronic games to use a graphical display.
Lynx's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/15/2008 11:39
Lynx
Not to be an ass, but it kind of bothered me that the line of blocks above empty spaces would drop down into the empty spaces combo-style when you complete a line. That's not in any version of Tetris I remember playing. If you complete a line and there are empty spaces below it, nothing should fill those spaces a la combo until they are filled with blocks by the user.

Still fucking awesome, and I always thought oscilloscopes would be perfect for Tetris, what with their gridded screens. Wish I could've had this in my ELT class.
Fleet3000's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/15/2008 11:45
Fleet3000
this guy plays like SHIT!
Emrah's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/15/2008 12:08
Emrah
@lynx: yeah I noticed it too, the rules of the game is different, the hanging blocks should not go down. (Still, that means there's an extra code, because it is easier to code it without the independent drops)

Very cute tetris :)
SourGr8pes's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/15/2008 14:22
SourGr8pes
Ok, I use oscilloscopes at school (they're mostly used for measuring AC waves), and I have trouble working the damn thing for ordinary use.

It boggles the mind that this man programmed fucking TETRIS out of one of these things. Trust me, especially if you see one of the newer ones, it's a very intimidating machine. Lots of dials, knobs, and whistles.
Necros's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/15/2008 16:33
Necros
I like the music, at least. Also, I like how the blocks actually drop.
Eschatos's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/15/2008 16:45
Eschatos
I'll be impressed if he gets it to play on a '50s radio.
grrza's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/15/2008 17:02
grrza
That's pretty freakin sweet. But man that guy sucks at Tetris.

The blocks dropping through takes all the challenge out of what makes a Tetris game though. Maybe the guy was sucking on purpose so that you could actually see blocks getting stacked up...

Music was great too. Reminded me of Autechre a bit.
Fading Star's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/19/2008 07:47
Fading Star
Tetris!
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