Is anyone aware of a simple, "pole-position" like game out there
that has a simple b&w display and graphics like in the original
pole position game? Are there any simple freeware/shareware games
like this out there? This is for an experiment to look at the
effects of color and brightness on "driving/tracking" performance.
Thanks!
John Bullough
>Is anyone aware of a simple, "pole-position" like game out there
>that has a simple b&w display and graphics like in the original
>pole position game? Are there any simple freeware/shareware games
>like this out there? This is for an experiment to look at the
>effects of color and brightness on "driving/tracking" performance.
>Thanks!
>John Bullough
Cheers!
John
>Is anyone aware of a simple, "pole-position" like game out there
>that has a simple b&w display and graphics like in the original
>pole position game? Are there any simple freeware/shareware games
>like this out there? This is for an experiment to look at the
>effects of color and brightness on "driving/tracking" performance.
>Thanks!
>John Bullough
Of course, then you are using a game in black-and-white that was
designed to be in colour, and that might be a different thing from what
you want.
But if it won't do, how can you possibly compare one colour game to a
different black-and-white game?
Do "simple" graphics really make a better experiment?
In old games, I really never could tell how close I was to the edge
of the road or another car without practising the situation several
times, since the graphics (Commodore 64 usually) did not portray the
situation accurately.
Oh yes. With a Commodore 64 and its standard monitor, you could
unplug the colour (chroma) plug and get a black-and-white picture.
Adrian.
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>Is anyone aware of a simple, "pole-position" like game out there
>that has a simple b&w display and graphics like in the original
>pole position game? Are there any simple freeware/shareware games
>like this out there? This is for an experiment to look at the
>effects of color and brightness on "driving/tracking" performance.
>Thanks!
>John Bullough
>Is anyone aware of a simple, "pole-position" like game out there
>that has a simple b&w display and graphics like in the original
>pole position game? Are there any simple freeware/shareware games
>like this out there? This is for an experiment to look at the
>effects of color and brightness on "driving/tracking" performance.
>Thanks!
>John Bullough
www.emux.com is a good link to start.
JoH
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At the risk of teaching my grandmother to suck eggs here, I would think
that something even a bit more simplistic would be a better test of
some of the fundamental tracking skills. Tetris would be ideal,
I think, and I have seen an old PC version which is monochrome on
monochrome, and colour on colour (CGA).
Simple "pole-position" games tend to introduce a confusion between
reality and their modelling of reality. That is, many users would
attempt to apply real-life experience which does not apply, while
with, say, Tetris, there is no such real-life experience.
If you really want to test driving skills specifically, then I would
think you would want as modern a driving simulator as possible, and
hope that changing the colour screen to black-and-white does not
change anything other than what would naturally change if you
could make a person see in black-and-white.
Adrian.
