Re: New game (maybe)
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 Agree - any new game for the SAM is a Good Thing. 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. Disagree - employers don't care less if you know how to code in C or Smalltak or COBOL or whatever as long as you know the principles of programming - preferably OO. In that respect Modula-2 (and Smalltak and Ada95) are one of the better. Learning OO from C++ is like learning to drive from a blind person (appologies to all blind persons reading this). -Frode -- ** Home - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website - http://www.purple.dircon.co.uk IRC - SparkY or SparkYY on #TheLocal or #SAM-Community **
Re: New game (maybe)
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:52:01 +0100, Gavin Smith said: 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. A few of our lecturers used to set practicals in Modula-2 [the others use more obscure ones like Haskell and Caml], but about three years ago they switched to C++ (yuk, give me plain C any day). This year, however, they seem to have ditched C++ and gone on to Oberon (which looks remarkably like Modula-2, since we are not using the full development environment). At least the compilers are not as flakey as the old SunOS Modula-2 one. As for COBOL, well it's a bit late but I'd bet COBOL programmers are in high demand right now to sort out all the legacy code for the millennium. imc
Re: New game (maybe)
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*. Malcolm has also e-mailed me, so I've decided to give it a go - probably won't be around until Easter / Summer however. 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 I agree, however, I've been taught it for two years and as my C++ isn't up to much so I figured I'd be better off working with Modula-2 for this project! Thanks for the support. Dave.
Re: New game (maybe)
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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 **
