Date   : Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:59:44 +0100
From   : jumbos.bazzar@... (Mark Haysman)
Subject: BBC Micros used in retro programming class

> A few years ago, my now-brother-in-law decided he wanted to write World Of
> Warcraft for his PSP - despite never having written a single line of code 
> in
> his life. He downloaded some sort of SDK for it (I don't know the details)
> and proudly showed me his first programming effort - a message box that
> popped up with "hello world".
>
> The problem was, his plan was that his *second* programming effort was 
> going
> to be World Of Warcraft. A week or so later and I never heard about it 
> again.

LOL indeed!

The trouble there was he was trying to write Warcraft. If he had taken on 
Star Wars Galaxies, specifically after the NGE, then you could have coded 
that combat engine on an Atom!*

Mark.

*If you don't play Galaxies, you won't get the reference.