Hi Thomas et al, Since you mention Elite, I feel this link might be useful to you or anybody interested in doing something similar. It’s a text-based reimplementation of the “classic,” trading system, which was basically the heart of the original game. There is no space combat or the like in here, but it’s probably something which could be added easily enough. Since this is standard C, it should be relatively portable, I’ve often thought of seeing if I could get it working on Mac as a trivial programming exercise. http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/text/ <http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/text/>
Enjoy, Zack. > On Jan 9, 2015, at 9:23 AM, Thomas Ward <thomasward1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi John, > > Unfortunately, the games we are talking about have no source code, or > at least none that is freely available. The games I had in mind were > old Dos games like Elite that was really big back in the80's and > early90's, but no longer are compatible with newer computers. I was > rather hoping of writing them as text based console games along the > lines of the original so that they would be accurate clones of the > original. That's mainly for nostalgia's sake so wasn't thinking of > using something like BGT for development. > > Plus the reason I had suggested Python is I am really interested in > cross-platform games. As many here know I primarily use Linux, not > Windows, so frown whenever anyone develops something exclusively for > Windows and can't easily port it to Linux. I imagine Mac users feel > much the same way. Therefore rewriting the games in C++ or Python is > more ideal than BGT which is as yet a Windows only technology. > > Cheers! > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
