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« Thread started on: Aug 16th, 2008, 3:47pm »

I'm doing a BB4W 'port' of the 80's game "Lazy Jones" (I played it on the Tatung Einstein).

What I liked about the game was the surprise element of not knowing what lay behind those doors! And I really liked the music, too. smiley

I'll be releasing work-in-progress versions of it every few days.

Interested persons can follow the development here:

http://www.bb4w-games.com/lazyjones.html


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« Reply #1 on: Aug 20th, 2008, 09:15am »

Hi David,

When you say 'port' are you going to update it as well or keep the 8-bit beeb style?

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« Reply #2 on: Aug 20th, 2008, 2:42pm »

on Aug 20th, 2008, 09:15am, Michael Hutton wrote:
When you say 'port' are you going to update it as well or keep the 8-bit beeb style?


Sadly, LJ didn't make it to the beeb. The reason for this, I suspect, was due to the beeb's more limited memory (compared to the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Tatung Einstein or MSX). Also, the lack of support for hardware sprites, low-res graphics + fewer colours on the beeb would have resulted in a 'port' that compared unfavourably with the versions on the above-mentioned machines. In fact, it would have been quite naff even if it could've all been squeezed into 20-or-so K of RAM. Oh, and let's not forget LJ's famous background music... it would have sounded less-than-pleasant on the beeb.

Sorry... was going on a bit there!

As for updating: maybe a few new flashy graphical effects here and there, but gameplay-wise the subgames will remain quite faithful to the originals (even if the graphics look a lot different). I'm tempted to add one or two subgames of my own though smiley


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