At 04:29 PM 11/23/2001 -0800, you wrote:
At this point, any distinct Stella cart is a member of a small class.
There are probably less than a thousand distinct, completed
Stella programs which have ever been distributed to the public.
I think you are underestimating the difficulty of creating a game.
There have been many unfinished programs here on Stella, not because the
programmers lacked technical ability, but because the ideas themselves were
left unfinished.
Regardless of the difficulty factor, it still takes persistence on the part
of the programmer to complete a project.
Not only that, but if the BAStella environment constrains what you can do
on the 2600, it actually becomes a challenge to break out of those confines
to give your game more uniqueness. It's like the 1800 bytes available to
Bally Basic programmers. It's an artificial constraint imposed by the
programming environment that in and of itself provides a challenge.
And I really don't think the classic gaming crowd will be that excited
about a dozen tetris or breakout clones. The novelty of getting a new game
done on the 2600 will wear off, yes, but that will only lead people to be
more aware of these games' intrinsic quality (or lack thereof) and I see
nothing wrong with that.
Glenn Saunders - Producer - Cyberpunks Entertainment
Personal homepage: http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/1698
Cyberpunks Entertainment: http://cyberpunks.uni.cc
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