On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Joshua Bell wrote:

>
> * Got hooked on playing GLTron - http://www.gltron.org - make sure you have
> updated OpenGL drivers for your system (I thought the game was an
> embarassing joke at 320x200 until I updated my drivers, and it is VERY sweet
> at 1280x1024 now). Y'know those old light cycles games we all wrote for our
> Apple II/C=64? Well, welcome to the 21st Century. The perfect game to play
> in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the game, and the release of the
> DVD (which all of the local stores are sold out of, damnit, so I picked up
> 2010 instead).

Oh, this is sweet!  I used to play incessantly a game called ... snakes?
serpents? (it preceded the movie Tron) ... on my dad's TRS-80 that I
always assumed was the model for the lightcycle arena.


Marvin Long
Austin, Texas

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