Pong TWO
Introduction
Release: V2.06 1stDecember 1997 (I was 17 years old).
System Requirements: Intel P75+, 16MB RAM.
It’s basically pong with slightly better graphics and a few other features. During my college days I ended up being ahead of the class when it came to Pascal programming so after quickly finishing my work I’d spend time pottering around making a game. This was the result. Originally this was hosted on another site when I first released it, had over 2000 downloads. I apologise to all of them for the waste of bandwidth and time hehe.
I had planned to develop it into Mortal Kombat meets Pong but at some point lost the code (was on a crappy floppy disk) and gave up on Pascal.
The following is a quote by the only site still hosting it:
Pong 2 by David Boyer New version of the venerable retro arcade game, Pong. Your goal is to hit balls with your bat, and stop them from zipping past you and reappearing on the other side of the screen. Each ball you miss gives your opponent a point, and vice versa. This unsophisticated, DOS-based version lets you play against the computer or human opponent. It has simple graphics, no sound, and very basic game dynamics. DOS 5.0
Download
Yes, there is a site still offering it for download, but only after signing up.
https://www.mbnet.fi/Apaja/alueet/tiedostot.asp?ParentID=&faid=141&Sort=PublishDate&Order=ASC&Kohta=61
I do have a copy of the compiled version but can’t decide on a file host to put it on as WordPress won’t let me upload it 
Installation
To get it working on any modern PC (anything 200Mhz+), you’ll have to patch the executable.
Have a look at the following website for instructions, it’s easy enough and you don’t need the source.
http://www.brain.uni-freiburg.de/~klaus/pascal/runerr200/download.html
After that you might be lucky and it’ll run, otherwise you’ll need DosBox.
Screenshots
Original Readme.txt
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Version-2.06-
--Installing--
Just make sure that the file PONG2.ZIP is unzipped with its folders,
so if you use pkunzip make sure you use the -D command.
--Controls--
Menu
Cursor up & down = Moves menu select
<Enter> = Selects and increments an option
+ = Increments an option
- = Decrements an option
Player1 Player2
Q = Up O = Up
A = Stop K = Stop (Only if slippery)
Z = Down M = Down
--System Requirements--
"I designed it to just run smoothly on my system so anything less
will probably be a bit jumpy"
Processor = P75
Memory = 16MB
--Bugs--
Version 2.05 -*FIRST RELEASE*-
On the menu the difficulty did'nt change properly.
Version 2.06
None so far except for slow down with 50 balls and a
high score.
--Version Developments--
Version 2.06
- The dots in the background of the game when your playing
now have 9 different ways of travelling around the screen.
Up, down, left, right, down & right/Left, up & right/Left,
reight & up/down, left & up/down and finally random directions.
--Credits--
Everything by David Boyer.
Powered by Andrew Griffin's GAMEUNIT.
"I did write my own unit but his was faster".
--Contacts--
David Boyer -= E-mail =- Dave@thegrove.swinternet.co.uk
-=Web site=- I've got no idea what to put on it.
Andrew Griffin -= E-mail =- aog100@york.ac.uk
-=Web site=- http://www.york.ac.uk/~aog100/
--Info--
First off no saying that the game is not fair, the balls are set
up so that the next ball comes from the opposite side of the last ball.
This was written using Turbo Pascal 7 and was graphically powered
by GAMEUNIT. Art was by me and all the programming.
If you have any ideas, problems or want to help develop it just E-mail
me. The proplems that I find or that are E-mailed to me WILL be fixed
in the next version.
This is the first release of Pong 2 and don't try looking for a
prequel written by me because it was so shit I never released it.
Sorry about any spelling mistakes.
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