NotchBasket for Windows v3.1.0

NotchBasket for Windows v3.1.0

• Impact sparks: up to 14000 individually sized sparks per hard hit, with wide speed, temperature, and lifetime spread and diameter-dependent air drag — no more canned fan.
• Realistic floor rolling: Coulomb friction converts sliding into rolling at bounces, rolling resistance brings the ball to a gradual stop, and spin stays locked to the rolling condition.
• Concrete walls (density 2400 kg/m3, effectively infinite mass): normal bounce uses measured basketball COR ~0.78 plus a tangential friction impulse.
• Fixed a basket counting when the ball entered the rim cylinder from below and fell back through the net.
• Grabbing the ball mid-drop and cancelled grabs behave correctly.

Portable x64 executable, no installation, no .NET.

NotchBasket for Windows v3.0.0

NotchBasket for Windows v3.0.0

• Fire trail on maximum-power shots: buoyant flame particles, embers, and smoke (12,000-particle pool, 240 Hz physics).
• Fire wraps the whole ball and goes out with sparks and smoke when it hits the floor, walls, backboard, rim, or net.
• Backboard bounce uses the real FIBA tempered-glass mass (~66.7 kg) and a two-body impact impulse (F3 shows the impulse).
• The ball can be grabbed while it is dropping in; a cancelled grab resumes the drop instead of freezing the ball.
• MinGW/GCC build compatibility in addition to MSVC.

Portable x64 executable, no installation, no .NET.

NotchBasket for Windows v2.0.0

NotchBasket for Windows v2.0.0

• 24-second shot clock mode (press M or use the tray menu) — buzzer-beaters count.
• The ball drops out from under the scoreboard when a session starts.
• Real backspin in flight and correct rolling spin on the floor.
• The net now shakes when the ball strikes the steel rim.
• Ball is 30% larger; calmer colours and brighter aim-guide dots.
• Fixed baskets not counting on diagonal or soft rim entries.
• Single-instance guard: a second launch cannot stack a second ball.

Portable x64 executable, no installation, no .NET.

NotchBasket for Windows v1.0.0

NotchBasket for Windows v1.0.0

Native C++20 desktop basketball for Windows 10/11 x64.

Download

Download NotchBasket-Windows-x64.exe from the Assets section below and
run it. There is no installer and no .NET dependency.

• Size: 469 KiB
• Architecture: Windows x64
• SHA-256: 3C5D4D98DEBE215AA7F6FEA2016205BD4E234ED38A0A70B0928C542998DC03C8

Highlights

• transparent desktop overlay with the original basketball visual
• fixed 240 Hz physics, independent of monitor refresh rate
• gravity and quadratic aerodynamic drag using SI constants
• rim, board, floor, and boundary contacts
• deformable 234-knot net with ball force feedback
• current streak and saved best streak
• the ball remains where it lands
• pause button frees the rest of the desktop for other applications
• no audio, network access, analytics, or installer

Source and physics details

The complete Windows source, build commands, formulas, constants, and honest
limitations are in
windows/NotchBasket.Native.

This community build is not digitally signed. Verify the SHA-256 value above
before running it; Windows may show an unknown-publisher or reputation warning.