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Antony Sidwell  
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 More options 21 Feb 2007, 12:38
Newsgroups: rec.games.roguelike.development
From: Antony Sidwell <a...@despammed.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:38:58 GMT
Local: Wed 21 Feb 2007 12:38
Subject: Re: 7DRL: Bob and Trev: Resurrection

Phlamethro...@gmail.com wrote:

 > But then I decided this would be far too simple an entry to have any
 > real impact on the roguelike world, so I decided to take it one step
 > further. The target machine will be a 2MHz BBC Model B with 32K of RAM
 > and 100k disc drive. And for maximum portability (and because 6502
 > assembler would be a step too far), the game will be programmed in
 > nothing but BBC BASIC. This means it'll run on any authentic Acorn/
 > RISC OS machine with 32K of RAM, or on practically any other machine
 > that has a BBC emulator, or has a port of BBC BASIC, or can run the
 > open-source Brandy (http://jaguar.orpheusweb.co.uk/branpage.html).

At last, a sensible reason for starting a new project with BBC BASIC -
maximum portability!  :)

Sounds interesting, though, good luck with it when coding time finally
arrives.  It'll be nice to have another reason to fire up the RISC OS
machine every now and again.
--
Antony Sidwell


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