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Written by The Last Psion | Alex on 2025-01-09 at 22:06

I've been wondering which games might work well ported to EPOC16 or EPOC32.

I have now got it in my head to go through every copy of Your Sinclair, Sinclair User and Amstrad Action, find suitable games, find their authors, ask if they still have the source, and finally convert the Z80 code to 8086 and the SIBO C SDK.

This is obviously a ridiculous and probably terrible idea. But I'm still tempted.

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Written by zxm on 2025-01-09 at 22:11

@thelastpsion when amstrad came out with @emailer didn't they try contacting all the authors of speccy games to put them on it? maybe a list of those games might be a launching point?

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Written by The Last Psion | Alex on 2025-01-10 at 06:09

@zxm Interesting! Hadn't thought of that.

To be honest it's too much work for me to take on right now, but it would be cool to see more games ported. Emulation is great, but on these old machines it's slow and eats batteries.

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Written by Jess Robinson on 2025-01-10 at 09:38

@thelastpsion start an online database, recruit some people... (personally I'd go for bbc/acorn games)

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Written by The Last Psion | Alex on 2025-01-10 at 10:00

@castaway Yeah, but 6502 games wouldn't be as easy to port to 8086 as Z80.

Unless they're written in BBC BASIC, of course, which I think would be relatively easy to port to OPL.

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Written by Jess Robinson on 2025-01-11 at 08:21

@thelastpsion i was indeed thinking of bbc basic, tho i guess the fancy ones are all assembler..

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