[A83] Re: App contest

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Subject: [A83] Re: App contest
From: zarquon@zarq.dhs.org
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:56:29 -0400
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On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 09:19:13AM -0700, Aaron St.John wrote:
> >>What about Zork ? Why doesn't anyone port zork ? :-(
> 
> >Screen size. You can't get anywhere near 80x24 on a TI screen. The
> >engine itself isn't hard, there are emulators for them, IIRC.
> 
> Screen size?  That's the worst ecsuse I've ever heard!  There's no reason 
> the screen needs to be 80x24, it's just text!  I'm guessing the main reason 
> is that it would be a pain in the ass to enter text and play, and the large 
> ammount of RAM needed.

It's not irrevelevent; trying to display a useful amount of text,
legibly, and (as you pointed out) interact with the user using strings,
is not easy on the smaller screens. It might be doable on the -92, but I
wouldn't bother on the others.

I ran into this while writing an ebook reader for the 83+; it just
wasn't worth doing when a palm or ebookman is relatively cheap.

R C

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[A83] Re: App contest

From: "Aaron St.John" <aaronstj@hotmail.com>