Re: Anyone remember Startrek?

["Captain Nemo" <nospam@nospam.com>]

Panzers East <NOSPAMpanzers.east@charter.net> wrote in message
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> What computer language are you using?

I'm doing it in Visual C.  I'd already done a C version for DOS, but I
couldn't duplicate the sounds successfully, although I tried copying what
the machine-language routines in the Apple version did.

>I don't remember the old Integer
> Basic Star Trek but it sounds like a good programming adventure.
>
> > and put in hundreds of Sleep() commands to slow it down so as to
preserve
> > the 'feel' of the original game.
>
> What about timer threads instead?
>

Well, if you're doing it as a Windoze programme you need to fork a separate
thread for the game, and it seemed natural to use the Sleep command for the
delays, since it allows the other threads to do their thing.  I suppose it's
a bit like DoEvents in VB.

> > I've faithfully reproduced all the bugs!
>
> Please, no bugs.  Windoze has enough of them already.  :)

No, I'm talking about things like this:

The date is written as a year and decimal parts of a year, e.g. 3284.64.  A
minor bug is that fractions < 0.1 are printed without a leading zero - e.g.
3284.06 would appear as 3284.6.  Also, when it prompts you for a
self-destruct password (in BLOCK CAPITALS, of course) it spells password
with a zero instead of an 'O'.

My main area of concern is I'm not happy with the font I'm using, which is
Courier New.  The Apple font was based on an 8 by 5 matrix and I'm wondering
if I'll have to do it graphically to get the identical look.