{"id":368,"date":"2010-08-09T17:31:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T17:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/?p=368"},"modified":"2010-08-15T21:50:46","modified_gmt":"2010-08-15T21:50:46","slug":"thrust-in-javascript-or-just-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/thrust-in-javascript-or-just-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Thrust in Javascript (or just about)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-372\" title=\"thrusttop\" src=\"http:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/media\/thrusttop-450x244.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/media\/thrusttop-450x244.jpg 450w, https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/media\/thrusttop-800x434.jpg 800w, https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/media\/thrusttop.jpg 955w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always got one beady eye on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chromeexperiments.com\/\">Chrome Experiments<\/a>, Google&#8217;s page for cool stuff built with new web tech. JavaScript isn&#8217;t<em> exactly <\/em>your new kid on the block\u00a0\u2013 but how about when you&#8217;re using it to build <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chromeexperiments.com\/detail\/thrust\/\">a remake of BBC Micro B beauty <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chromeexperiments.com\/detail\/thrust\/\">Thrust<\/a><\/em>? It&#8217;s the handiwork of <a href=\"http:\/\/joncom.be\/\">Jon Combe<\/a>, and it&#8217;ll flood the memory arteries of anyone who smashed up their Beeb after repeatedly catapulting their craft nose-first into a wall. In <em>Thrust<\/em>, you fought the law of gravity \u2013 and the law won. Again, and again, and again.<\/p>\n<p>Jon&#8217;s used a smidgen of Flash to get the sound working, but only Steve Jobs is likely to get upset about that. Head straight to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chromeexperiments.com\/detail\/thrust\/\">Chrome Experiments page for Thrust<\/a> \u2013 and have a giggle at the poor mites moaning that the controls are rubbish and it&#8217;s all too difficult. Welcome to 1986, kids!<\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><br \/>\n<a class=\"addthis_button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addthis.com\/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=pixelatron\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/static\/btn\/v2\/lg-share-en.gif\" width=\"125\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Bookmark and Share\" style=\"border:0\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js#username=pixelatron\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- AddThis Button END --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always got one beady eye on Chrome Experiments, Google&#8217;s page for cool stuff built with new web tech. JavaScript isn&#8217;t exactly your new kid on the block\u00a0\u2013 but how about when you&#8217;re using it to build a remake of BBC Micro B beauty Thrust? It&#8217;s the handiwork of Jon Combe, and it&#8217;ll flood the memory arteries of anyone who smashed up their Beeb after repeatedly catapulting their craft nose-first into a wall. In Thrust, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[93,100],"tags":[104,103,10,106,105,26,102,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}