RE: "RPG isn't cool" (was: Re: IBM Secret)

["McCallion, Martin" <MccalliM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob Buchanan wrote:

>I've been giving an open source RPG to C [translator|precompiler].  It
>doesn't seem too difficult, just time consuming.  The issues for
>portability (and why do it without portability) to me seem to be the
>external file descriptions, and the screen handling system.  I suppose
>both could just be unhandled in the language and require 
>external calls,
>but that kindof defeats the purpose.  Anybody else given this 
>some thought?

Bob,

Take a look at Eraserhead RPG: http://rpg.netpedia.net/.  The page
doesn't seem to have changed in a long time, so I don't know whether
development is still ongoing, but it looks like they're taking a similar
approach to what you suggest.

Cheers,

Martin.

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