Subj : Re: New game, Monopoly for the Commodore 64
To   : All
From : Daniel England
Date : Sun Jul 01 2018 22:39:04

Oops, I realise I should post a bit of background, especially since there is a 
version of the game already available for the C64.

I love the game.  I wanted to be able to play it when I was travelling but it 
costs $10 USD or so to purchase for the Android tablet.  I wasn't prepared to 
pay that much (I've bought it for an Android phone before and the PC already).  
I wanted to have a 
standard rule compliant game which I've found no version to actually be.  There 
are also no networked versions I know of that are worth playing.  

I figured I'd give myself a programming challenge and write it.  It had to be 
for the Commodore 64, of course!

Initially, I wanted to make the game networked, multi-player.  I looked into 
how to use Contiki for this but once I realised it was too complex a task to 
begin with, I decided to implement the game stand-alone first so that I could 
see what might 
actually be required to do it the other way.

It was a bigger challenge than I realised...

I wanted it to be fast and actually playable.  The original C64 version was 
neither, IMHO.  I wanted a version that could challenge the PC version I have 
for authenticity and desirability.  It had to be standard rule compliant.  
Also, the PC version I 
have has the American place names which I really don't like so it had to have 
the proper English ones.  I think I've succeeded in all these goals.

If you enjoy the game, you should enjoy this version too.

I should mention that presently there is no CPU player.  It wasn't a goal, 
initially.  I was going to write the server on the PC side only and have the 
CPU player there.  I feel that writing a decent CPU player on the C64 in 
assembly may be a rather 
difficult challenge.  I have only about 7KB of memory left unless I switch out 
the Kernal and do some tricky things.  There are also some optimisations to be 
done.  It would possibly be enough (I think I know how to approach it) but I 
will leave it for 
another version.  Help with this would be greatly appreciated.

I intend on writing the client/server version next and writing a Mega65 network 
client as well.  I no longer intend on making a C64 network client.  I might be 
persuaded to do this but I think I would also prefer some help with this as I'm 
very 
unfamiliar with Contiki and how to build it with cc65/ca65.


Daniel.

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