Pong for Linux

[Frog]

OH YEAH ...... I was disappointed a few times ..... speaking of old games ..... does anyone know where I can find a copy of PONG to play on my phone or on Zorin ????? ..... I kinda miss that little bouncing ball ..... Yup ..... old school .....

[Storm]

Pong Game by Miigel

[Frog]

Thank you kind sir ..... I downloaded the zip file and extracted it to my downloads folder ..... now where to I move the file folder to so it will open .....

I know when I download a theme or icon set I put them in the .icons or .theme folder ..... do I put this folder to something similar ????? .....

[Aravisian]

It is a stand-alone application, so you can put it anywhere you like. Double click the Pong.x86_64 file to run it.

[Frog]

Hummmmm ..... must have done something wrong some where .....

[Ocka]

Not sure what Pong is but try the "Software centre"

Ok it's a game.
Hope this may help.

[Ocka]

pong

[Frog]

@Aravisian

Right click the Pong.x86_64 file and select "Properties"
Check that it has Executable permission.

Here is what I got ......

[Frog]

Not what I was looking for ...... they put a totally different spin on it ..... no warm fuzzy feeling .....

[Aravisian]

Maybe the devs instructions are not clear.
Looking here:
https://github.com/MiMGell/PongGame

It looks like more installation is necessary...

Here, it says:

Linux : just unzip the zip file then run the "Pong.x86_64" file, and if there is premission error just right click the "Pong.x86_64" file and allow this file to run as executeable.

I downloaded it and tried it only to get the same result that you did.

[Frog]

Phew ..... for a moment I thought I almost made a mistake .....

Thanks for checking that out .... to bad it doesn't work ..... I was hoping ....

Ocka had some good leads on some different ones but I can't get them to work either ..... it's a conspiracy I tell you a conspiracy .....

[Aravisian]

The pong game that we tried was updated within the last two weeks. Why not make a note to the dev on github to let him know his instructions are not working?

[Frog]

I found a game called BasicPingPong .... on YouTube ......

Basic Ping Pong game! by Jonathan Steadman

But for me the control buttons are not positioned right and very hard to use on my mini keyboard ..... left played uses W & S while right player uses UP & DOWN arrows ....

they are just way to close for me to use my fat fingers ...... but I'll keep looking .....

Be better for 2 player I would imagine ....

[Aravisian]

What about using Stella (Atari emulator)?

[Frog]

@Aravisian

Stella (Atari emulator)

Interesting idea ..... I read up on it a bit from the Stella website ..... and downloaded the Ubuntu 20.04 .deb version also saved the web site to favorites ..... so as I get some free time I'll go exploring .....

Thanks ....