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I'm guessing they (authors of battlezone) and the article aren't aware of BZFlag[1]. I started playing it in 1995 on SGI machines. I now play it on my laptop.

by hpcjoe 5y ago

I'm guessing they (authors of battlezone) and the article aren't aware of BZFlag[1]. I started playing it in 1995 on SGI machines. I now play it on my laptop. This is definitely 3D, and the tanks can jump. [1] https://www.bzflag.org https://www.bzflag.org

app4soft 5y ago
BZFlag seems like has a 3D-mode of "Space Invaders".[0,img] [0] https://www.bzflag.org/media https://www.bzflag.org/media [img] https://www.bzflag.org/assets/images/media/screenshots/space_invaders_01.jpg https://www.bzflag.org/assets/images/media/screenshots/space...
- bitwize 5y ago
  And it was created by... the voice of Minmei?!
bitwize 5y ago
bzflag is one of those timeless games, like nethack, xpilot, and even Doom now. People just keep playing and hacking them... for decades. Did you play Battalion back in the day?
- zxcvbn4038 5y ago
  Not to mention xmrid, xbill, and there was a graphical nethack clone called crossfire that I liked to play. I could never get Battalion to compile under Linux or AIX, but it’s been almost thirty years since I last tried.
pvg 5y ago
Looks like the article predates bzflag by over a decade, there's a little blurb in there that mentions it, different from the re-publication date near the title.
- hpcjoe 5y ago
  Derp ... I didn't look at the date at all. Thanks!
jiveturkey 5y ago
Sure, at the time, the authors of battlezone wouldn't have been aware, since it predated BZFlag (and SGI) by 15 years. As did this article, written when battlezone was still current. IEEE has had this bad habit of recently republishing some old era articles as if they were current. I find it nostalgic but also disconcerting.
- teklaperry 5y ago
  Is there something we could do to make it less disconcerting? We hoped the bright box with the original publication date would cover that. (This year we're making an effort to identify articles in our paper archives that were contemporary (or 'ish) design stories at the time, that now have some historical meaning. Until this republication they didn't exist in digital form. Thoughts?
  - jiveturkey 5y ago
    The "bright box" disappears for me and I'm sure many others. It's just a callout and by default is visually ignored with my "ad reflex". Here's one obvious fix. First line of the article, italics: "Originally published x/y/zz".
  - pvg 5y ago
    Maybe put the repost date and the original date/re-publication date closer together and/or in the same place? I think part of the confusion is people glance at where they expect the dateline to be and then miss the other bit because it looks like a quote or ad box.

by hpcjoe 5y ago

app4soft 5y ago

BZFlag seems like has a 3D-mode of "Space Invaders".[0,img] [0] https://www.bzflag.org/media https://www.bzflag.org/media [img] https://www.bzflag.org/assets/images/media/screenshots/space_invaders_01.jpg https://www.bzflag.org/assets/images/media/screenshots/space...

bitwize 5y ago
And it was created by... the voice of Minmei?!

bitwize 5y ago

bzflag is one of those timeless games, like nethack, xpilot, and even Doom now. People just keep playing and hacking them... for decades. Did you play Battalion back in the day?

zxcvbn4038 5y ago
Not to mention xmrid, xbill, and there was a graphical nethack clone called crossfire that I liked to play. I could never get Battalion to compile under Linux or AIX, but it’s been almost thirty years since I last tried.

pvg 5y ago

Looks like the article predates bzflag by over a decade, there's a little blurb in there that mentions it, different from the re-publication date near the title.

hpcjoe 5y ago
Derp ... I didn't look at the date at all. Thanks!

jiveturkey 5y ago

Sure, at the time, the authors of battlezone wouldn't have been aware, since it predated BZFlag (and SGI) by 15 years. As did this article, written when battlezone was still current. IEEE has had this bad habit of recently republishing some old era articles as if they were current. I find it nostalgic but also disconcerting.

teklaperry 5y ago
Is there something we could do to make it less disconcerting? We hoped the bright box with the original publication date would cover that. (This year we're making an effort to identify articles in our paper archives that were contemporary (or 'ish) design stories at the time, that now have some historical meaning. Until this republication they didn't exist in digital form. Thoughts?
- jiveturkey 5y ago
  The "bright box" disappears for me and I'm sure many others. It's just a callout and by default is visually ignored with my "ad reflex". Here's one obvious fix. First line of the article, italics: "Originally published x/y/zz".
- pvg 5y ago
  Maybe put the repost date and the original date/re-publication date closer together and/or in the same place? I think part of the confusion is people glance at where they expect the dateline to be and then miss the other bit because it looks like a quote or ad box.