The graphics are really the last what's retro. This is the looks of the original Pong:



For all gamers who don't like playing with the keyboard, try ControllerMate. It's a great prog running in the background which advises all types of controllers (f.e gamepads, joysticks whatever) a new function. So in the easiest way you can tell it that if one button on the controller is pressed than it sends a defined key stroke. This works for every program, so you could f.e. control FrontRow with a gamepad. Or Plasma Pong, while we were talking about it. But the program is very complex. It has functions to dectect if a controller is existing to assign the functions only if its connected. You can create complete controller pages only for special applications. It's also possible to group these. ControllerMate detects if an application is running in the foreground or in the background so that you can react on this. There are logic functions and much more. Controllers are calibrateable, of course. It's a great prog and not too expensive, take a look at it if you like to play.

BTW: I actually installed an Amiga Emulator on my Mac - now I can play my favourite games there. I don't like the inbuilt joystick control, so I use a normal keyboard layout and assign the joystick with ControllerMate to the Emulator. The Competition Pro USB is a great joystick, it's as good as the original one.

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2 Opteron systems: OSx86 10.5.8, Andy's 9.8.0 kernel, Asus A8N-SLI Premium, Opteron 185 o'clocked @ 2 x 2,95 GHz (2nd system 2.6 GHz), ATI Radeon HD2600XT 256MB Dual-Monitor 2x HP L2035, 4 GB RAM, Griffin FireWave as main audio device, Marvell + nForce LAN, Asus U3S6 USB3/SATA6 card, 5,5 TB harddisk, Firewire 800 card, Apple Remote + eHome IR receiver, 2x Wacom serial graphics tablet, Canon Pixma iP4700, Logitech Internet Navigator wireless keyboard/mouse combination.

My Audio stuff: M-Audio Transit USB (default audio), M-Audio ProFire 610, M-Audio ProFire Lightbridge (34 channels) using Creamware A16 ADAT converter • MIDI: M-Audio Midiman 4x MIDI interface • Behringer Audio Mixers: Xenyx 1002, Xenyx 1002FX, Xenyx 1202FX, Eurorack UB1002FX, Eurorack MX1804FX, Eurorack MX262A • FX devices: Lexicon MPX100 DSP, Behringer DSP-1000 Virtualizer, Behringer MiniFEX 800 DSP, Behringer Multicom Pro MDX4400 compressor • RETRO: MSSIAH midi/sequencer/synthesizer cardridge for the C64 (Dual-SID), Steinberg M.S.I. MIDI Interface for C64