Here it is:

You've been employed in Duke's factory to make widgets.  You must bend the steel bar as it comes off the rollers to make the shape on the pattern.  Controls are displayed in game.

www.circuitswamp.org/projects/java2009/steelmillduke.jnlp

This version currently doesn't work correctly on the Mac, because anti-aliased rendering is switched on by default, which mucks up the part of the program that's scoring your widget.  Unfortunately I don't have time to sort out multi-platform right now.  Sorry.

Alan

I've tried it with Java 6 on XP, but don't have Vista, so I can't investigate it.   I'll look at that bit of code again, but it'll have to be after the competition.

Thanks, Alan

The first section always comes out one square longer than it appears, so you wait until it's one square before you expect and then tap the first cursor key. For the rest you wait until it's where you expect. So

Level 1: wait until you have 4 light blue squares, then hit <- and -> simultaneously.
Level 2: wait until you have 3 light blue squares, then hit <-. Wait for another 3 squares and hit <- ->.
Level 3: wait until you have 3 light blue squares, then hit <-. Wait until the middle section is four long, and hit ->. Wait another three and hit <- ->.

Looks nice, and it's an interesting idea but the bar comes out sooooo slowly I got bored after waiting 5 mins to hammer out two pieces. Sorry.

Probably would be better to make the rollers faster and the scoring less sensitive.  I might tweak it a bit after the competition to see if that improves playability.  Cheers, Alan

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rock & roll music
graphics ( except text)
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graphics (text)
webstart
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