Re: Portability of games (was Re: Limitations of Inform and TADS?)


Mon, 20 Nov 1995 10:28:25 GMT

>>>>> "Greg" == Greg Ewing <greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> writes:

> But these things should only be happening in the status window,
> because that's the only place where it's legal to move the
> cursor. So use a completely fixed font in the status window, and
> proportional fonts in the main window.

Except where the game asks for a fixed font, of course! I hadn't
realised that cursor moves didn't happen in the main window, but if
that's so, then of course it makes things much easier to understand.

> That's what I did in ZeX, and it seems to work, even in games which
> use quote boxes and such weird things.

How about Beyond Zork, or whichever game it is that draws a map?

(Anybody fancy writing a Z-code nethack type game?)

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Bruce                   Institute of Advanced Scientific Computation
bruce@liverpool.ac.uk   University of Liverpool
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