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Diversion for friday afternoon...how far can you get?

Personal best is 586

http://www.meph.eu.org/

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Yep, just a tad too easy to nose-plant. Optimal ballistic loft doesn't net optimal distance. Best I could muster was 556.4

Somebody needs to teach that (those) penguins to arch their backs... 8-)

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Quoted 5 lines · On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:36:59 -0500 Chris Friesen <[email protected]>…

Diversion for friday afternoon...how far can you get?

Personal best is 586

http://www.meph.eu.org/

Couldn't get further than 542.7...
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Quoted 5 lines · On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 13:20:15 -0800 "Robert White" <[email protected]> wrote:

Yep, just a tad too easy to nose-plant. Optimal ballistic loft doesn't net optimal distance. Best I could muster was 556.4

Somebody needs to teach that (those) penguins to arch their backs... 8-)

I reckon those penguins do not scale real well lol

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Couldn't get further than 542.7...

Managed 593.4 by beginners luck. (we need a highscore somewhere...)

Regards

Ingo Oeser

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Omkhar Arasaratnam wrote:

| On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 14:36, Chris Friesen wrote:
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|>Diversion for friday afternoon...how far can you get?
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|>Personal best is 586
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|>http://www.meph.eu.org/
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| First version that killed productivity^H^H^H^ I found was much harder, I
| think we topped out at 320.... thanks for the Turbo version :-)

On the first version i got 321.7 )

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Quoted 2 lines · Chris Friesen

Diversion for friday afternoon...how far can you get? Personal best is 586

My record is 594.2, my wife's 593.4 ;-)

Mar - should have done more useful things - kus

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Quoted 3 lines · Markus Plail

My record is 594.2, my wife's 593.4 ;-)

Mar - should have done more useful things - kus

Doesn't "more useful" imply that what you did do was at least somewhat useful? <G>

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In reply to Chris Friesen

588 here, but the guy next to me at work got 593

what a great diversion, almost everyone was playing.
having about 4 or 5 of the penguins yelling at the same time is pretty funny when the boss walks in :) Seems the popups can only get you in the 400's and a line drive with some sliding action is how to get the really high scores.

Quoted 18 lines · Chris Friesen

Diversion for friday afternoon...how far can you get?

Personal best is 586

http://www.meph.eu.org/

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#include <hallo.h>

Quoted 3 lines · Chris Friesen

Diversion for friday afternoon...how far can you get?

Personal best is 586

Which means that you are playing it either on a Windows box (what a shame) or cheating somehow or you have a 5Ghz box or something else is wrong on regular Linux systems. I do not any Linux user who got more than 325.5 with the Linux version of the Shockwave plugin.

Regards,
Eduard.

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Quoted 10 lines · Eduard Bloch

#include <hallo.h>

Quoted 3 lines · Chris Friesen

Diversion for friday afternoon...how far can you get?

Personal best is 586

Which means that you are playing it either on a Windows box (what a shame) or cheating somehow or you have a 5Ghz box or something else is wrong on regular Linux systems. I do not any Linux user who got more than 325.5 with the Linux version of the Shockwave plugin.

I've gotten over 500 on my 2 GHz laptop running Linux 2.6.1. Even this fairly fast machine the flash thing frequently freezes for a split second.

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Which means that you are playing it either on a Windows box (what a shame) or cheating somehow or you have a 5Ghz box or something else is wrong on regular Linux systems. I do not any Linux user who got more than 325.5 with the Linux version of the Shockwave plugin.

I've gotten over 500 on my 2 GHz laptop running Linux 2.6.1. Even this fairly fast machine the flash thing frequently freezes for a split second.

There are a couple of version of this floating around, one of them the physics have been changed. On the original the max was about 300 ish. On this one its nearer 550

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In reply to Måns Rullgård
Quoted 6 lines · Måns Rullgård
Quoted 5 lines · Eduard Bloch
Quoted 3 lines · Chris Friesen

Diversion for friday afternoon...how far can you get?

Personal best is 586

Quoted 8 lines
Quoted 4 lines

Which means that you are playing it either on a Windows box (what a shame) or cheating somehow or you have a 5Ghz box or something else is wrong on regular Linux systems. I do not any Linux user who got more than 325.5 with the Linux version of the Shockwave plugin.

I've gotten over 500 on my 2 GHz laptop running Linux 2.6.1. Even this fairly fast machine the flash thing frequently freezes for a split second.

If you download the flashfile and then open that file in your browser you'll see a part hidden from the sight by the html-frame. Then you will also understand the freeze. :)

# Han

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Quoted 12 lines · Han Boetes
Quoted 11 lines · Måns Rullgård
Quoted 9 lines · Eduard Bloch
Quoted 3 lines · Chris Friesen

Diversion for friday afternoon...how far can you get?

Personal best is 586

Which means that you are playing it either on a Windows box (what a shame) or cheating somehow or you have a 5Ghz box or something else is wrong on regular Linux systems. I do not any Linux user who got more than 325.5 with the Linux version of the Shockwave plugin.

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I've gotten over 500 on my 2 GHz laptop running Linux 2.6.1. Even this fairly fast machine the flash thing frequently freezes for a split second.

If you download the flashfile and then open that file in your browser you'll see a part hidden from the sight by the html-frame. Then you will also understand the freeze. :)

It just scales up to fill the window without showing anything I didn't see previously. In my experience, almost all flash toys have the freezing problem, not just this one.

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My record:
1210.8

Trick:
http://www.mironov.net/pingu/pingu3.swf

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Quoted 22 lines · Han Boetes
Quoted 6 lines · M�ns Rullg�rd
Quoted 5 lines · Eduard Bloch
Quoted 3 lines · Chris Friesen

Diversion for friday afternoon...how far can you get?

Personal best is 586

Quoted 8 lines
Quoted 4 lines

Which means that you are playing it either on a Windows box (what a shame) or cheating somehow or you have a 5Ghz box or something else is wrong on regular Linux systems. I do not any Linux user who got more than 325.5 with the Linux version of the Shockwave plugin.

I've gotten over 500 on my 2 GHz laptop running Linux 2.6.1. Even this fairly fast machine the flash thing frequently freezes for a split second.

If you download the flashfile and then open that file in your browser you'll see a part hidden from the sight by the html-frame. Then you will also understand the freeze. :)

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1213.6, as a matter of fact ;-)
Well, I guess that with this URL you pro's will get really higher hi-scores...

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Quoted 51 lines · Marcos D. Marado Torres

My record:
1210.8

Trick:
http://www.mironov.net/pingu/pingu3.swf

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Quoted 22 lines · Han Boetes
Quoted 6 lines · M�ns Rullg�rd
Quoted 5 lines · Eduard Bloch
Quoted 3 lines · Chris Friesen

Diversion for friday afternoon...how far can you get?

Personal best is 586

Quoted 8 lines
Quoted 4 lines

Which means that you are playing it either on a Windows box (what a shame) or cheating somehow or you have a 5Ghz box or something else is wrong on regular Linux systems. I do not any Linux user who got more than 325.5 with the Linux version of the Shockwave plugin.

I've gotten over 500 on my 2 GHz laptop running Linux 2.6.1. Even this fairly fast machine the flash thing frequently freezes for a split second.

If you download the flashfile and then open that file in your browser you'll see a part hidden from the sight by the html-frame. Then you will also understand the freeze. :)

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Quoted 9 lines · On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 21:41:19 +0000 (WET) Marcos D. Marado Torres wrote:

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1213.6, as a matter of fact ;-)
Well, I guess that with this URL you pro's will get really higher hi-scores...

Mind Booster Noori

hi.
thx for the url.

1214.9 here :)
http://ikaro.homepage.dk/pingu.jpg

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Quoted 13 lines · Nuno Alexandre
Quoted 9 lines · On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 21:41:19 +0000 (WET) Marcos D. Marado Torres wrote:

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1213.6, as a matter of fact ;-)
Well, I guess that with this URL you pro's will get really higher hi-scores...

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hi.
thx for the url.

1214.9 here :)
http://ikaro.homepage.dk/pingu.jpg

A student pushing the boundaries, with 1215.8 :-)

http://www.netvis.co.uk/pingu3_swf.png

Cheers,

Neil

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Hail!

1216.2, but no screenshot :(

Quoted 23 lines · Neil Ferguson
Quoted 13 lines · Nuno Alexandre
Quoted 8 lines · On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 21:41:19 +0000 (WET) Marcos D. Marado Torres wrote:

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1213.6, as a matter of fact ;-)
Well, I guess that with this URL you pro's will get really higher hi-scores...

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hi.
thx for the url.

1214.9 here :)
http://ikaro.homepage.dk/pingu.jpg

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A student pushing the boundaries, with 1215.8 :-)

http://www.netvis.co.uk/pingu3_swf.png

Cheers,

Neil

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From: "Nuno Alexandre" <[email protected]>

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Quoted 4 lines · On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 21:41:19 +0000 (WET) Marcos D. Marado Torres wrote:

1213.6, as a matter of fact ;-)
Well, I guess that with this URL you pro's will get really higher hi-scores...

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Mind Booster Noori

hi.
thx for the url.

1214.9 here :)
http://ikaro.homepage.dk/pingu.jpg

Come ON guys! You CAN't let a 60 year old broad best you! {^_-}

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1213.6, as a matter of fact ;-)
Well, I guess that with this URL you pro's will get really higher hi-scores...

and when you miss it's -56.3, hmmm... ~1204 on best

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Quoted 8 lines · On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 11:07:34 +0100 [email protected] (Måns Rullgård) wrote:
Quoted 6 lines · Eduard Bloch

#include <hallo.h>

Quoted 3 lines · Chris Friesen

Diversion for friday afternoon...how far can you get?

Personal best is 586

Quoted 8 lines
Quoted 4 lines

Which means that you are playing it either on a Windows box (what a shame) or cheating somehow or you have a 5Ghz box or something else is wrong on regular Linux systems. I do not any Linux user who got more than 325.5 with the Linux version of the Shockwave plugin.

I've gotten over 500 on my 2 GHz laptop running Linux 2.6.1. Even this fairly fast machine the flash thing frequently freezes for a split second.

I've had 500+ on my K6-2 450 so it doesn't have nothing to do with CPU speed.

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In reply to Eduard Bloch
Quoted 4 lines · Eduard Bloch

Which means that you are playing it either on a Windows box (what a shame) or cheating somehow or you have a 5Ghz box or something else is wrong on regular Linux systems. I do not any Linux user who got more than 325.5 with the Linux version of the Shockwave plugin.

So if you don't know them, they don't exist at all?

For the record: Thinkpad T41, Slackware 9.1, kernel 2.6.1, score: 586.

(And as a side note: are there other Thinkpad owners with problems powering off their machines, unless you boot with "nolapic"? See
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1901)

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In reply to Eduard Bloch

In article <[email protected]> (at Sat, 24 Jan 2004 10:52:09 +0100), Eduard Bloch <[email protected]> says:

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#include <hallo.h>

Quoted 3 lines · Chris Friesen

Diversion for friday afternoon...how far can you get?

Personal best is 586

Which means that you are playing it either on a Windows box (what a shame) or cheating somehow or you have a 5Ghz box or something else is wrong on regular Linux systems. I do not any Linux user who got more than 325.5 with the Linux version of the Shockwave plugin.

I got 578.7 on Linux box (of course).

--yoshfuji

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588.6 here.
Nearest without missing the penguin : ~236. Let's start the lazy yeti contest !

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In reply to Eduard Bloch
Quoted 4 lines · Eduard Bloch

Which means that you are playing it either on a Windows box (what a shame) or cheating somehow or you have a 5Ghz box or something else is wrong on regular Linux systems. I do not any Linux user who got more than 325.5 with the Linux version of the Shockwave plugin.

Shockwave flash plugin is a lot slower on Linux than on MS Windows.
It also doesn't support transparency on Linux. But that's not a kernel thing ;-)

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In reply to Eduard Bloch
Quoted 6 lines · Eduard Bloch

#include <hallo.h>

Quoted 2 lines · Chris Friesen

Diversion for friday afternoon...how far can you get?

Quoted 10 lines
Quoted 3 lines

Personal best is 586

Which means that you are playing it either on a Windows box (what a shame) or cheating somehow or you have a 5Ghz box or something else is wrong on regular Linux systems. I do not any Linux user who got more than 325.5 with the Linux version of the Shockwave plugin.

Sounds like 3/4 of the programmers I've ever worked with -- if they can't figure out how to do it, then it can't be done and anyone who says otherwise must be lying or cheating.

Still, it does seem like the game is much less predictable on some systems. I have a linux laptop that plays it quite nicely (thus the 593.4 I reported earlier). I tried it on my desktop at home, and it was very jerky.

The two systems are pretty comparable.

For anyone who cares: here's the main differences with laptop (good) on the left and the desktop (bad) on the right:

Mozilla: 1.5 on both, build dates 20031107 vs 20031007
Flash Version:    6.0.79.0   vs   6.0.69.0
CPU:   Pent M 1700   vs Athlon XP 2100+
Video: ATI Radeon M9 vs Matrox G400      <=== I think this is the problem
Kernel: 2.4.21 (debian) vs 2.6.1

I am going to reboot to check against the 2.4 kernel. Who knows? Maybe there will be a pingu bug report against the 2.6 kernel series.

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Re: [OFFTOPIC] "smack the penguin" 2.4 vs 2.6

Quoted 28 lines · Mark Borgerding
Quoted 6 lines · Eduard Bloch

#include <hallo.h>

Quoted 2 lines · Chris Friesen

Diversion for friday afternoon...how far can you get?

Quoted 10 lines
Quoted 2 lines

Personal best is 586

Which means that you are playing it either on a Windows box (what a shame) or cheating somehow or you have a 5Ghz box or something else is wrong on regular Linux systems. I do not any Linux user who got more than 325.5 with the Linux version of the Shockwave plugin.

Sounds like 3/4 of the programmers I've ever worked with -- if they can't figure out how to do it, then it can't be done and anyone who says otherwise must be lying or cheating.

Still, it does seem like the game is much less predictable on some systems. I have a linux laptop that plays it quite nicely (thus the 593.4 I reported earlier). I tried it on my desktop at home, and it was very jerky.

The two systems are pretty comparable.

For anyone who cares: here's the main differences with laptop (good) on the left and the desktop (bad) on the right:

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Mozilla: 1.5 on both, build dates 20031107 vs 20031007
Flash Version:    6.0.79.0   vs   6.0.69.0
CPU:   Pent M 1700   vs Athlon XP 2100+
Video: ATI Radeon M9 vs Matrox G400      <=== I think this is the problem
Kernel: 2.4.21 (debian) vs 2.6.1

I am going to reboot to check against the 2.4 kernel. Who knows? Maybe there will be a pingu bug report against the 2.6 kernel series.

... doesn't seem the same.

It appears that 2.4.22 may be better suited to penguin abuse than 2.6.1.

I rebooted my desktop to 2.4.22. Within a minute, I tied my record from the laptop. ( http://www.borgerding.net/pingu_proof.png )

Still, the results are far from scientific or conclusive. I need some objective smackage.
Maybe I will try a blind study with my nieces tonight. I'll reboot the machine into either 2.4.22 or 2.6.1 and record their scores.

Coming soon to a techie-site near you, "Pingumark 2004".

- Mark Borgerding