Date   : Wed, 26 Apr 2006 08:19:06 +0100
From   : Rob <robert@...>
Subject: Re: Golem Katakombs adventure game solution and PC

At 23:02 25/04/2006, BBC Micro wrote:


>In fact I have converted it to PC versions (Windows
>and Linux) as the simple data-driven way it was
>written made this quite easy!!!


I remember spending many happy hours whiling away my time at work 
converting Countdown to Doom to run on the office systems..  They ran 
an obscure operating system called BOS (it was effectively a virtual 
environment so you could run exact the same apps and data on any 
combination of hardware you could find, from pc to pdp11 to rs6000.. 
nice, and still going..) and the only language I had available was an 
extended COBOL ...

CtD was basically a small basic interpreter and a massive chunk of 
memory mapped data that was highly compressed room descriptions. I 
never did get it working, but I was damn close...