Ported Akalabeth (Ultima 0) to MSX-Basic

Par santiontanon

Paragon (1832)

05-02-2019, 22:28

Nice! I actually played a bit of Akalabeth last year just to check it out! Didn't know it was coded in Basic!!!

And this makes me even more curious to try to code a game in BASIC again after about 30 years!

Par JohnHassink

Ambassador (5684)

06-02-2019, 03:33

Cool! Thank you nanochess.

Par ARTRAG

Enlighted (6977)

06-02-2019, 08:09

I had just a quick play and I like it a lot! About bugs, I've spotted that the text sometimes overwrite itself or it is not properly centered but with some cleaning this game has a lot of potential, even for physical release.
Sadly, even without disk drive installed, the spare ram is only 3K, not very much for improvements (and with disk installed it does not even fit in ram).
A way I to expand the game with audio effects and music could be to translate it to C...

Par ARTRAG

Enlighted (6977)

06-02-2019, 09:18

Just a side note. Apart from loading the Cas file, you can copy and past the whole listing in openmsx and get it typed even on turbo r.
You need to boot pressing shift (to disable the disk) and put to max speed max frame skipping to speed up the typing.

Par NYYRIKKI

Enlighted (6093)

06-02-2019, 13:14

ARTRAG wrote:

Just a side note. Apart from loading the Cas file, you can copy and past the whole listing in openmsx and get it typed even on turbo r.
You need to boot pressing shift (to disable the disk) and put to max speed max frame skipping to speed up the typing.

Even better idea:
set default_type_proc type_via_keybuf
(Fixes possible problems with keyboard layout as well)

Par zett

Hero (608)