09-02-2022, 06:07 PM
Many people want to see pictures and don't care about text, whether or not it scrolls. It has to do with tolerating an impersonal posting forum like this one but holding down the "page down" key on a very long post. I answered you in the thread you started, but you might start thinking it requires a bit too much effort for your target audience. It's not hard to do it, but a person who wants to play a game and wants to "cut to the chase" might not be very interested in scrolling text on a screen and trying to read everything.
I include myself as case: maybe I found the same BASIC program as you about a game employing Star Trek's features. I was amused by a few of the smart-aleck comments it contained... a few of them are. Not. How. You. Answer. A commanding officer sir! I'm not patient with any game done in the late 1970's and early 1980's which relies entirely on text mode. If the screen scrolls, or if a portion of the screen does while something else is going on, maybe I'd say, "This is pretty kewl, wish I could program like that". But it could never go beyond that with somebody young enough to be my son. :/
I'm not trying to put you down with this and it's not aimed at anybody in particular, but IJS.
I include myself as case: maybe I found the same BASIC program as you about a game employing Star Trek's features. I was amused by a few of the smart-aleck comments it contained... a few of them are. Not. How. You. Answer. A commanding officer sir! I'm not patient with any game done in the late 1970's and early 1980's which relies entirely on text mode. If the screen scrolls, or if a portion of the screen does while something else is going on, maybe I'd say, "This is pretty kewl, wish I could program like that". But it could never go beyond that with somebody young enough to be my son. :/
I'm not trying to put you down with this and it's not aimed at anybody in particular, but IJS.