New game (maybe)
Hi, I don't want to be responsible for vapourware so I'm not making any promises here...BUT: Would anybody be interested in a game for the SAM (possibly even the Speccy) called Palmyra? The game is based on the board game by the same name (and you've probably never heard of it because practically no-one has!). But it's about buying and selling stocks of three commodities based on limited information about how the prices are going to change. Basically, it's a stocks and shares game - not terribly exciting and action packed but playable. The reason I ask is that this is currently my final year degree project. I'm supposed to implement this in Modula-2 on the PC and then spend large amounts of time creating an AI computer player (this being the main focus of the project). At the time of writing, the basic PC deliverable (human players only) is nearing completion and I reckon it shouldn't be too difficult to implement on the SAM in machine code since I'll have all the design documentation. It's not the most exciting game in the world and the hypothetical release date would probably be some time after my finals (although I may do some work on it over Christmas) but I just wondered - is there any interest out there? I reckon the AI could be implemented to some degree as well. Dave.
Re: New game (maybe)
D A Fulton wrote: Would anybody be interested in a game for the SAM (possibly even the Speccy) called Palmyra? Yes, indeedy, I'd be interested in it. I love business/management games, and there isn't really a decent stocks and shares one on the SAM (never mind the Speccy). I used to have one on the Acorn Electron that was great fun, but that was many years ago *sniff*. And hard luck having to do Modula-2 - I had to do it as well, and it's completely f*cking useless, employers don't want to know you if you can't code in C/C++. Be thankful you aren't my younger brother, who has to learn Cobol this year in college!!! That will come in damn useful after the year 2000, I don't think. -- ** Home - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website - http://www.purple.dircon.co.uk IRC - SparkY or SparkYY on #TheLocal or #SAM-Community **
Re: What's in santa's sack?
On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, The Mad Goose wrote: Christmas is on the way (obviously) and so, being in the festive mood, I thought I'd set everybody a challenge. Register EGGBuM for a tenner, and buy The Sad Snail Collection of me for another tenner. Spend the other 30 on a second hand megadrive and a couple of games. ;-) Actually, expect the SScollection on nvg/mono.org in time for Xmas, featuring 3 new never seen before games. Unless you have seen the disk I sent Colin A or gave to Colin M, or you were at the show, or you know me ;) @/
