Re: Newton, James Cook and the Archi.

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          Qercus editor <editor@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> In article <1191664773.226181.222870@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>    David.Watts.RiscPC@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 <David.Watts.RiscPC@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On 6 Oct, 06:39, "Alex' A. Interrants" <ausserstor...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > Well, so I'm still playing "Pirates" on the good old Commodore 64. I
>> > will never understand why people are advised to buy a new computer
for
>> > gaming. Most of the best titles are *very* old. Or very undemanding
of
>> > hardware.
>> >
>> > For me, good games are like good books. In old times it was easier to
>> > write games for computers by everybody because the computers was much
>> > simpler, wasn't it? And the publish market was also more open to
>> > spend informations about computers "and the run".
> 
>> it's just as simple or even easier to create your own games these days
>> with there being lots of easy to learn languages and widely available
>> toolkits.
> 
> Possibly not. Ask for help and some fool will butt in and castigate you
for
> asking about BASIC instead of using C++. It *could* be as simple (or
easier)
> with good (and free) editors and development such as AppBasic - but you
also
> need to be surrounded by op****tunities to gee you along (like magazine
> listings). Now if someone would like to write a series of articles on
how to
> write your own (what sort of game do you want?) then that could run
alongside
> our series on Assembler programming ...
> 
The sticking point all the time though is the graphics. Most people 
aren't talented artists as well as being able to program so the 
solution is either poor graphics or "buy a PC/Mac". Even TEK's 
graphics had to use non-RISC OS hardware and software for certain 
parts. It certainly showed how useful TopModel could be for games 
development but if you want to animate 3D characters it's incredibly 
tedious if at all possible to get decent results.

Composition is good for bulk processing images but you have to spend 
time with the script language.

Personally I think BASIC is a brilliant way of an amateur writing a 
freeware game and the only wall anybody will come up against is the 
graphics. If there could be an investigation into how this could be 
addressed *that* would make for an excellent Qercus article!

Andrew