PvZ is very suited to the QL, since it's just a 6x10 grid. It doesn't need the fancy graphics. However, obviously, it would need to be changed somewhat... Shielding against UFOs or something.
I'm also considering a block move type game, where you have to push blocks around to reach things or toggle switches to open exit doors to get to the next level. That can get fiendish really fast. The main problem I'm having with the ATC sim idea is that I would need to design and use a custom miniature font, and then draw it somewhere else, then AND/OR it into the video display to allow planes to overlap, since there's no transparent backgrounds in QDOS. Also, it's a fairly small screen area, so... To get ten planes and the beacons and the flight tags and the strips up is.... hefty. Also, the average QLer is now in their 40s or 50s, and won't publicly acknowledge their eyesight isn't as good as it used to be yet. Someone suggested I do an eBook reader. Any merit to that? A couple of people have asked me if I'd do some classic card games as a bundle... Like patience etc, but maybe that's been overdone already. I guess a first start could be to write my own font editor (I find it terribly quant that y'all still call it "fount".) One thing I considered, for when I have a TCP/IP stack, is a telnet-based multi-user BBS - but that's definitely a later project! I have previously written a web server that allowed server side includes in BASIC - that was what I'd half done when I got distracted before and left the scene. The principles of that would port VERY nicely to SMSQ/E but not QDOS... I have also written a SAS US payroll app for calculations of federal and state taxes, pensions etc, with basic incentive compensation management... It's just a shame the userbase is so small because something like that is very customizable for US/UK businesses, even though their tax systems operate in quite different ways. However, that's a commercial project and doesn't come under "personal, non-profit use" (batts eyelashes at Daniele) Anyone want to throw any other ideas into the mix? My real heart's desire is, ironically, a hardware/software project, to put together a package of an ARM-based embedded computer with Linux, booting right into uQLx, so that it is basically a QL. Getting it so it can fit inside a QL case with PSU and a couple of laptop SATA HDs or compact flash cards - but that's an ambitious project financially, if not technically, so it's not on the cards for some time unless a benefactor comes along. Dave On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Neil Riley <[email protected]>wrote: > I like the idea of a Tower defence type game. Plants vs Zombies, hmmmm, not > sure the QL can quite > manage PS3 level graphics and I'm not sure the 68000 series can keep up > with the CELL processor but > looking on the bright side, Halo has been ported over to the VCS2600 ( I > kid you not!) and that has a > cut down 6502 CPU on board! > > Neil > > > >>> Plastic <[email protected]> 24 January 2011 14:02 >>> > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Peter <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Dave, > > > > how about a commandline tool which can automatically delete a whole > > directotry tree with all files in it? :-) > > > > Never found this yet... > > > > All the best > > Peter > > > You design computers before breakfast, so obviously that sounds a lot > easier to you than it does to me ;) > > Dave > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > > > > *********************************************************************************** > The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. > It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor > may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the > company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note > neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses > and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. > No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email > communications. > > BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, > Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England > > www.boxclever.co.uk > > *********************************************************************************** > > > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
