Hi all. So, I recently had a head injury that gave me some concentration and short term memory problems. From my past experience with this type of injury in 1994, I know the best therapy is to work my brain, stretch it, make demands.
I have use of a QL software emulator. It can emulate the basic QL with many memory configurations, QDOS, Minerva, etc, and save/load to disk. So. The exercise I have given myself is to write some SuperBASIC software that benefits the community. On completion, the code would be released free for all. I was only an average programmer in my heyday and have an idea what my limitations where then, and am sure they're less now. For this reason, I am putting some artificial limits on what I do. It could be anything - a game, utility, whatever. However, it can't rely on special hardware. It should be able to run on a 640K QL. It would be in SuperBASIC, not assembly, but as an option (if I can find the Lightning I have in a box SOMEWHERE) it could be compiled. So TCP/IP based apps are out... for now. No pointers (I don't have one.) I'm open to games or simulations that don't require advanced math... So far I have considered: An Air Traffic Control game/simulator (depending on realism achieved.) A graphical tower defense game - but not really a desire to develop some game toolkit or learn a complicated one - something meeting 80s standards, not today's! Blocks games. Many ideas to choose from. Not so convinced on this. Board games? Meh? Trading game/stocks/... simulation? An election/govt game? (Like the BBC "GB Ltd." game, but more playabe?) A fantasy sport league game? A catalog/library app? (for books, dvds, etc?) I'm quite taken by doing a QL version of Plants vs Zombies. I also have a to do list. I am rereading my original QL manual - don't have the Care TK2 manual any more so need to go find a copy of that. Also, need to check out this Minerva thing. I've always stuck to JS roms and tk2. I'm not a big POKE/PEEKer so OS differences don't affect me so much. What I'd like from the list is ideas within or outside this list to give me something to work on. The brain took a good thump and it truly isn't working so well - it feels like I have a permanent stinking head cold. *So, ideas/suggestions/discussion would help me, and may act as a bunch of ideas for others interested in doing something similar in the future... * Ok. I went and took a look, and my Lightning is on microdrive. Is there a pd or shareware compiler anyone would recommend, depending on how the conversation develops, that can work on an emulator? Dave _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
