Re: Prince of Persia

From	Hg <Hg@Hg.Hg>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject	Re: Prince of Persia
Date	2012-04-18 08:21 +0500
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On 18/04/2012 02:55, Rick wrote:
> "Bill Kendrick"<bill@newbreedsoftware.com>  wrote in message
> news:4f8dc8c6$0$16188$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net...
>> Jordan Mechner is extracting source code to Prince of Perisa (Apple II
>> version) and posting it online.  Perhaps time for a port? :)
>>
>>   https://github.com/jmechner/Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II
>>
>> (Someone ported it to C=64 a while back, but that was from a binary dump
>> of the Apple II game, not from the assembly source code, that Mechner is
>> posting today :) )
>>
>>
>> --
>> -bill!
>> Sent from my computer
>
> Testing: Going back to OE to post to newsgroups as now google groups won't
> load because of my slow connection.<sigh>
>
> I certainly applaud the gift and any effort that goes into using it as a
> resource.
>
> A consistent if not  ubiquitous nag I have is standards. I am making a few
> efforts in that direction, mostly small and feeble. It would have been
> better if Apple, Atari, C64, et cetera all had a uniform expanded graphics
> standard available. VGA has 'sorta won on the DOS/Windows/Linux, Android,
> ... platforms. Ports and new software would be much easier if things like
> the graphics only had to be done once and could be directly used on all
> platforms.


Every manufacturer thought their computer standard would win the
format war back then - so no co-operation on common standards.


>
> Heck, there are dozens of SBC from ARM to Zilog hacks. If there was one
> platform for graphics and interface to it that everyone agreed on people
> could get their one off Z8000 computers running the latest greatest youtube
> video if nothing else.
>
> Rick
>
>


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Prince of Persia bill@newbreedsoftware.com (Bill Kendrick) - 2012-04-17 19:47 +0000
  Re: Prince of Persia "Rick" <ricortes at yahoo dot com> - 2012-04-17 14:55 -0700
    Re: Prince of Persia Hg <Hg@Hg.Hg> - 2012-04-18 08:21 +0500

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