----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordon Pearce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 8:56 PM Subject: Re: [scottish] Re: games
> [snip] > > I'm really not up on C at all. I kinda grew up using assembler, and never > got out of the habit. This is what happens when you spend all day hacking > Spectrums instead of doing 'O' grade maths :-) lol :) An interesting path to tread is remakes - take an old Spectrum (or other classic 8-bit or 16-bit) game and update it on a modern platform such as a PC running dos, doze or linux. Quite a few have popped up, remaking games such as Skool Daze, Lords of Midnight and Three Weeks in Paradise. A nice place to start is http://www.retrospec.org/ (which sadly appears very much broken) and http://retro-remakes.emuunlim.com/ <shamelessplug> If anyone's interested in CDs brimpacked with Spectrum stuff, drop me a line, or go to http://neuro.zensoft.net/woscd/ </shamelessplug> I'll now go outside and commit harikiri :) Incidentally, as part of that Spectrum CD thing, I'm thinking of getting a DVD-R drive - if I go ahead and get it, would slug folk be interested in ISOs (say mandrake or debian) bunged onto a DVD-R at media cost (or if you supplied media) for easy archival? -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _________ "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ for Sega." -- Brodie, 'Mallrats' =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ @ well.com :: William Anderson U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! http://neuro.wasters.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
