Subj : Re: New game, Monopoly for the Commodore 64
To   : All
From : Daniel England
Date : Mon Jul 09 2018 17:54:52

Another bit of a milestone...  There is now the ability to build a version that 
has a CPU player.  

It knows how to play some of the game, namely rolling the dice, buying deeds, 
getting out of gaol and out of debt.  It can't buy improvements nor participate 
in auctions, trades or eliminations just as yet.  If it had improvements, it 
would know how to 
sell them in the debt handling, though.  The feature support is coming in 
stages.

I don't include the CPU player in the build on GitHub so to use it, you need to 
build it yourself after changing the DEBUG_CPU define to 1 instead of 0.  
Player 2 will then be set as a CPU player.  There are some limitations and if 
it gets lost, you can 
sometimes press the keys to control the (now invisible) menus.  If the CPU gets 
stuck, it will produce an error message and stop running (human control will 
resume).  Its quite rough but I'm working on it.  I may be able to help if you 
want to use it and 
are having trouble building it.

I've done a lot of bug fixes, optimisations and feedback enhancements as well.

Oh!  The strings data is now loaded into "high memory" at launch so the game 
has to be run from a disk.  I haven't been able to get the compression I want 
working just as yet so the entire load process is far longer than I desire.  I 
apologise to anyone 
on a real machine with a 1541 for having to slow load 195 blocks.  Its a fair 
while.

All but one of the tasks on my list for moving to BETA state have now been 
completed.  I will be doing this soon.

Please enjoy!


Daniel.

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