creating a text adventure, but with what programming language?

[nicholas]

How about PureBasic?

The full version is free for Amigas.

http://www.purebasic.com/

[nicholas]

I appreciate all the suggestions guys
 
I am keen on using something that can later be used to develop other applications or games too, rather than a tool that purely does text adventure, as I want this to be a starting point.
 
But its a brave new world out there, and I'll have to get my feet wet anyways

My Amiga resolution is to master 68k assembly, perhaps you could code your game in assembly and we could help each other with the learning process?

[nicholas]

I've thought about going hardcore and learning assembly but I am a little intimidated I must admit.

I keep trying to convince myself of NO PAIN NO GAIN!

[nicholas]

@ nicholas

Nice to see someone taking an interest in 68K assembly, its my preferred langauge (other than Scottish), if you want some examples of 68K source code just let me know and I'll send you some of my own stuff (DevPac 68k format) for you to look at and hopefully learn from...

It's all stuff I've written myself over the years, just don't ask me to explain all there is to know about 68K though as I can easily code in it but explaining to someone how to actually do it is not my strong point...

You can also download some examples of my source code from here for now if you wish (it ranges from the useful to the downright obscure)...

http://www.commodorescotland.com/#/downloads/4544143499

Thanks Franko that's very kind of you.

I actually taught myself a bit in the early 90's but gave it up for x86 assembly when I got my first PC circa 1994.  Then came work and years of high level stuff to pay the bills.

This time next year I want to be comfortably able to write some intros/demos in the oldskool style.

[nicholas]

Cobblers... it's keech and I've had enough of chrimbo to last me a lifetime, tear it down so I can get back to being grumpy again...

It's not Christmas until 19th of January for the Armenian Christians.

[nicholas]

Lol, no... I'm off to bed... But over Christmas I attempted to teach my youngest brother to program, xcode was out of the question so I set up a JavaScript HTML document with some basic io functions in the head to hide the DOM and he was really getting into it! I will introduce objective-c to him via Objective-J

I'm phoning social services!

[nicholas]

:roflmao:

Seriously, though, I bet they take a dim view of that sorta thing...

It's perverted and should be stopped!

[nicholas]

I dunno... I'm finding the natural language approach to Inform7 rather intriguing. I don't know that it'll amount to anything, but it's still a rather interesting solution for the subject matter.

Tired and without my spectacles I misread Inform6 as Informix and nearly had a heart attack! :lol:

[nicholas]

I took it to mean he thought it stunk. I suppose he can clarify if he wishes.


@ nicholas

So, which part nearly gave you the heart attack? That I found Informix intriguing? Or that it would never amount to anything?

I still have re-occurring nightmares of being forced to write code with an Informix back end in the mid 90's!