Dick Smith System 80 as a development platform?
Posted:
Sun Nov 18, 2012 10:28 amby tezza
Given what's going to appear at the movies soon, here is a bit of trivia I found interesting which I thought I'd share. Did you know that famous Sinclair Spectrum game "The Hobbit"
was developed on a System 80!?
Re: Dick Smith System 80 as a development platform?
Posted:
Thu Nov 29, 2012 9:23 pmby YetiSeti
tezza wrote:Given what's going to appear at the movies soon, here is a bit of trivia I found interesting which I thought I'd share. Did you know that famous Sinclair Spectrum game "The Hobbit"
was developed on a System 80!?
All right, all right, we know you love System 80s
Oh, here's a brilliant idea that's a day too late.
Wouldn't it have been fantastic to take your Hobbit computer game to the premiere and have it autographed !
Re: Dick Smith System 80 as a development platform?
Posted:
Sat Dec 01, 2012 6:58 amby tezza
Yes, and I was actually in Wellington at a conference at Te Papa on the day of the red carpet. Many wizard hats and hairy feet.
Unfortunately I don't own a copy of the Hobbit (the software), but that would have been a crafty idea.
Pity it was never released for the System 80/TRS 80 M1. It was because the eye-candy graphics were bolted onto the game of course, but, as much of the hard work was done on a System 80, It would be good to have had a text based version for that model.