The Incredible Machine - 3 balls juggling

I made up a 3 balls juggling machine within "TIM - The Incredible Machine", one of my favourite DOS games! I hoped to achieve a never ending cycle but, despite my best efforts, I'm not able to make it last forever. This clip shows my best result: 22 bounces, since the 3rd ball enters the pattern! I am very satisfied, having improved by more than 50% my previous record of 14 bounces. I thought it was impossible, since changing the starting position of just one ball by just one pixel was enough to get a much poorer result. Then I tried to make some big modifications and this proved to be the right choice, and again it seems to me that the machine cannot be further improved by small corrections. My work ends here, I hope you like the outcome, enjoy the video!

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• tim
• incredible
• machine
• dos
• old
• game
• juggle
• juggling
• 3
• balls

[wildmanoman]

I had a game just like this, I remember even some of the contraptions from it, But the graphics where alot better. something about the one guy in a loud speaker on the menu screen? i got it for Christmas when i was a kid. I loved this game. I looked at 2, its alot closer to what it looks like maybe it just had crappy graphics and i don't remember xD (But if you know the name please tell me :D)

[lesath82]

@wildmanoman I'm sorry, I played only this one, but you can have a look at Wikipedia's "The Incredible Machine" entry and look for the titles of the series.

[HELLPINAVENGER]

how is the dosbox game called?

[lesath82]

@HELLPINAVENGER "The Incredible Machine" is the name of the game!!

[Eptapus]

@whaaaaap You could try win 7! As I see the comment made 11 months ago!

Also you can download vmware, install windows 98 or xp and play the game in there. No?

[alonet02]

bem bolado

[jakubkrcma]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh, the memories... :-)

[tofalvidavid888]

from where can i get this game? :) this was my first favorit game.... a long time ago....

[lesath82]

@whaaaaap that's weird... and sad!!

[whaaaaap]

@lesath82 computer doesnt want to download dosbox