Tom, I loved Elite itself a long time back - was one of those games that I
got stuck playing for hours on my old XT back then...<smile>
Just not sure how you'd really convert/transform the 3D flying interface
etc. I sort of remember from it into a text control based interface?
Unless am thinking of the wrong game, or part of the interface, or else,
suppose the sort of underlying strategy part of the game related to sort of
strategy relating to performing actions/activities..?
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
"Roger Wilco wants to welcome you...to the space janitor's closet..."
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2015 7:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Dos Games Preservation Project
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!
On 1/9/15, john <jpcarnemo...@gmail.com> wrote:
I have no experience with actually playing these games, but would be
willing
to give porting them a try if there's sourcecode and/or a detailed enough
explanation available. I know very little python, but would be surprised
if
I couldn't get some kind of a solution together using bgt.
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