Re: wacky game idea :)

[Rob Thomson <Rob.Thomson@vuw.ac.nz>]

tsetse@helix.net (tsetse) wrote:
>In article <sheldonDp5F1q.Frr@netcom.com>, sheldon@netcom.com (Sheldon
>Simms) wrote:
>
>} In article <4jmkjl$am6@india.lm.com> mportune@telerama.lm.com (Matt
>Portune) writes:
>} >Has anybody ever thought of writing a 3D-first person shoot-em-up game in 
>} >low res graphics mode?  40x40?
>
>} Call it "Ultra Doom" and watch the gamers flood back to the Apple II !!
>} I wonder if it could be done in BASIC?
>
>integer basic.

Cool idea!
Why not use a BASIC compiler? Also use machine language calls.
You could have different versions (for those of us without GS's). For the
II+ and IIe you could use some of Philip Lamb's IISound (.wav sound file 
player) code (if he'll let you).

Rob.