Website aims to publish new Beeb games

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Shame that these guys are going for beeb and not RISC OS releases - the platform could use more coders! arawnsley on 26/3/08 10:59PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

It's not a great stretch to consider developing games for RISC OS under the "retro" umbrella (though we wish it were otherwise) ... perhaps such people could congregate there too? Shaping up to be a really good site. As someone who is getting as much fun from his Beeb collection as his "modern" computers at the moment - I wish it all the best! krisa on 27/3/08 7:51AM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

Hi, As the quoted spokesman from the article above, I can assure you that we're certainly not adverse to Risc OS programming, although the current contributors are mainly focussed on 8-bit development at the moment. It really is about people bringing what they can to the table - if anyone with an Archimedes background would like to contribute tools or start new projects, we'll help wherever we can. Drop by the forums and start a dialogue with us! Everyone's welcome, whether they use 8 or 32-bits ... Sam. Samwise on 28/3/08 1:10AM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

RISC OS games development is hampered by development time and the ports by Alan Buckley and the Unix Porting Project (not to forget the many independent desktop card/board games by others) have provided a steady stream of releases for this platform for years. However, these 8-bit programs will all run on RISC OS machines. Given that there's now three development streams for BBC Micro emulation development on RISC OS it would be a brilliant time for a mutitasking version of Beebit or 6502em to emerge onto the scene. This would bring all the new (and 1000+ old) games titles to the convenience of the RISC OS desktop and bring a great retro environment into the hands of modern RISC OS programmers - many of whom grew up or "cut their teeth" on the Beeb. AW on 28/3/08 10:56PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

I think you'll find that both 6502Em and BeebIt already multitask, and what is the third development stream? IvanDobski on 29/3/08 2:36PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

Their emulation certainly does not multitask to my knowledge. Beebit has 2 development streams. AW on 29/3/08 11:36PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

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