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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 6 Apr 2000.
Re: ASCII meets games

Re: ASCII meets games

bjo...@secom.be (Bj�rn De Meyer) wrote in 
<38E...@secom.be>:

>
>
>Nacken wrote:
>> 
>> Hello Wesley,
>> 
>> I want to create a quest-rpg-game which plays in a fantasy world...
>
>Qbasic is horrible for that! You can only use 64k of memory!
>That's nothing! There are many better freeware compilers/
>interpreters out on the web. I suggest you look for Yabasic, 
>or Xbasic, or even BWBasic for that matter. 
>Or why not learn C(++) and get DJGPP+ALLEGRO. I'll tell you more if
>you are interested. 
>
>(Sorry for the off-topic post)
>
>
>Obascii: One-line flying bird:   \/
>

If you want to play with text (Which basically ASCII is) use perl
There's perl for windows, it's pretty good, it's far less complicated than 
C++ and eh...
Well, let's just say that I used it a few times to work with ascii-art.

Ojoshiro

ObAscii
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 | |   <Let's just think that looks like a camel...

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Subject: Re: ASCII meets games
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