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The gameplay renderer drew the inactive table and then placed thin line flippers and procedural circles over baked resting artwork. This left two flipper poses visible at once, made the ball difficult to see, and ignored recovered animation resources already embedded with the reconstruction. Build an alpha-masked texture from the original ball bitmap and mask, erase the baked flipper pose before drawing collision-aligned moving flippers, and animate the recovered wheel, robot, and magnet sheets from their gameplay events. Add bumper flashes, exact lit-table pixels for TILT, and a short visual table shake for nudges so contacts and machine state have immediate feedback. Test Plan: - `cargo fmt -- --check` -- passed - `cargo test --all-targets` -- passed - `cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings` -- passed - launched the Linux window and inspected attract, gameplay, resting flippers, raised flipper cleanup, and the masked ball sprite -- passed - `git diff --check` -- passed
TDK Pinball Machine for modern PCs
This is a native Rust reconstruction of the 1995 Windows game TDK Pinball Machine. It uses the extracted original artwork and sound, recreates the playfield as a fixed-step simulation, and runs from the same source on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
The original program is not required at runtime. All required game assets are embedded in the executable at build time.
Run
Install a current stable Rust toolchain, then run:
cargo run
For a distributable optimized binary:
cargo build --profile production
The binary is written below target/production/. On Linux, Macroquad's native
development packages are also required (X11, OpenGL, and ALSA). Windows needs
no extra runtime installation; macOS builds with the normal Apple developer
command-line tools.
Original and modern controls
| Action | Original key | Additional modern key |
|---|---|---|
| Choose 1-4 players | + |
= |
| Start or launch ball | Down arrow | Enter starts a game |
| Left flipper | Left Ctrl | A or Left arrow |
| Right flipper | Keypad Enter | Right Ctrl, D, or Right arrow |
| Nudge | Space, either Shift, keypad 3 |
- |
| Help | F1 | Enter/Escape returns |
| Settings | F2 | - |
| High scores | F3 | - |
| Sound | F12 | - |
The five original speed choices are retained as simulation-detail settings. They change fixed-step resolution without changing the speed of play.
The help screen is the original artwork in English, German, French, Italian, or Spanish. As instructed on that screen, double-clicking its upper-left exit box closes the program.
Saved data
Settings and the ten-entry high-score table are stored as save.json in the
platform's normal per-user application-data directory. On first run, the table
is imported from the original HISCORES.DAT included with this reconstruction.
Reconstruction status
This repository distinguishes exact recovered material from behavioral reimplementation. See RECONSTRUCTION.md for the evidence ledger, known inference boundaries, and validation performed.