What I had in mind was
something that would just let you do console
text-based stuff a la old DOS text-based programs, or
that 2600 game 'Dark Mage'.
I am currently trying to do playfield graphic text (10 char x 6 line
3x5) and it is a much bigger PITA than at first it sounds.
I already have a simple C-esque scripting language I
wrote with some other guy for a class in college,
which I was thinking might be a starting point.
There are some forgotten languages from the 2600's own era that
might be more appropriate than C. I'm thinking especially of
Forth, or a compiled integer Tiny BASIC. C would be dreadful,
what with all that passing of parameters on the stack, and the
same is true of most other languages with 'modern' features.
--Roger
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