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This was done at Brown in 2000 (albeit in monochrome):

http://techhouse.brown.edu/bastille/

Woz even showed up to play it:

http://techhouse.brown.edu/bastille/photos/woz_play.jpg

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I was part of the team that worked on this way back in the day, and it was a blast. It was a bunch of soldering, running wires, trying to debug all the issues, etc. And then everything came together and it just worked.

Woz showing up was the icing on the cake, and it was definitely one of the highlights of my college career.

I was a middle-schooler and my parents took me to play. I recall a bug where if you rotated the square quickly enough it would travel upward. Someone (maybe Clara?) whipped out a patch and recompiled.

No idea who'd have done the patch, it was really a team effort. I forget the exact number, but there were 20+ contributors over the course of the project. And by the time it was up and running a lot of us were crashing due to the long hours. I only vaguely remember the first night it fired up, since I had gone home to sleep after a long shift and someone came back to tell me that it was finally working.

Awesome to hear from someone who got to play it!

I created an account just for this: I dated Clara's sister for 7 years, and I still run into her brother occasionally, from the other side of the country.

Pointless post is pointless.

Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands) did it in 1995 ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwNQqePk8Kg

Seems to run faster too, and use the existing lighting.

I can imagine Woz sitting there thinking, "I can do this in 2 chips, 8 transistors and ..."

Also http://blinkenlights.net/

And it was done before that in 1995 at Delft University, as the article mentions. (I saw it there!). Playing Angry Birds on the side of a building would be more with the time.

Thanks, I was about to post this (my friend's laptop is the one they used for the controls). Go Brown!

Wow. I'm 2 blocks from that building atm. This is great.

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