Re: MSX Port of Westfront PC: The Trials of Guilder :)

2001-05-22 Thread Jose Carlos Clemente
Paul Panks wrote: Hello, Would anyone be interested in attempting a port of the text adventure Westfront PC: The Trials of Guilder to the MSX standard of machines? With 128kb of bank-switchable RAM, and multicolor text mode, I believe this could be possible. For more information, please

Re: MSX Port of Westfront PC: The Trials of Guilder :)

2001-05-22 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
Jose, This guy is most likely not on the Mailinglist. So please reply in private to him or ask him to join. :-) I'd be interested, at least, and I think most ppl will do. New software is always welcome. Have you already finished porting the game to all the systems mentioned on your

Re: MSX Port of Westfront PC: The Trials of Guilder :)

2001-05-22 Thread Jose Carlos Clemente
Manuel Bilderbeek wrote: Jose, This guy is most likely not on the Mailinglist. So please reply in private to him or ask him to join. :-) Ooops, you're right, didn't notice it ^_^; BTW, does anyone have any news concerning Nishi's plans? I haven't seen anything lately in the

Re: MSX Port of Westfront PC: The Trials of Guilder :)

2001-05-22 Thread Pierre Gielen
I took a look at the code for the MSDOS version and it looks pretty straightforward to me. The Basic program is huge (150k), but it could probably be split into smaller fragments that can be compiled with the Microsoft Bascom compiler. Don't know about the size of the data structures though. The

Re: MSX Port of Westfront PC: The Trials of Guilder :)

2001-05-22 Thread M. J. Bethlehem
You could write assembly routines and add them to a library. I did this for a quickbasic program once (way back when I still programmed in DOS and QuickBasic) and it sped up screen writes enormously. Mail me if you need a hand. Martin. -- For info, see

MSX Port of Westfront PC: The Trials of Guilder :)

2001-05-21 Thread Paul Panks
Hello, Would anyone be interested in attempting a port of the text adventure Westfront PC: The Trials of Guilder to the MSX standard of machines? With 128kb of bank-switchable RAM, and multicolor text mode, I believe this could be possible. For more information, please visit: