From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,41100a78496a4c71 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 11232c,39dbc4c99e28558a X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-28 12:55:43 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.icl.net!news.mailgate.org!mygate.mailgate.org!129.8.166.54!not-for-mail From: "Kent Paul Dolan" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,misc.misc Subject: Re: AdaGames Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 20:55:42 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG Message-ID: References: <98104da8.0203280310.143a1c18@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.8.166.54 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.mailgate.org 1017347677 30505 129.8.166.54 (Thu Mar 28 21:55:41 2002) X-Complaints-To: abuse@mailgate.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 20:55:42 +0000 (UTC) Injector-Info: news.mailgate.org; posting-host=129.8.166.54; posting-account=48257; posting-date=1017347677 User-Agent: Mailgate Web Server X-URL: http://mygate.mailgate.org/mynews/comp/comp.lang.ada/dc96b52943cb61bb597dbe7a590ddbb4.48257%40mygate.mailgate.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21790 misc.misc:5957 Date: 2002-03-28T20:55:42+00:00 List-Id: "Enrico A." wrote: > Ciao! > in your opinion what kind of game can show the power of Ada ? > a sport game (soccer, nhl), strategic game (like command&conquer), > flight (Ace combat,Ms flight simulator), rps (Doom, Quake, Halo), > Adventure (Zak McKracken:))), Day of the tentacle), rpg (Baldur's > gate) etc ? Several years ago by now I promoted porting Nethack to Ada as a way to attract college students to the Ada language. The proposal fell on deaf ears. I'd like to see the conceptual richness of Nethack ported to a full 3D graphics live action dungeon crawl game, but it's way past my skill set to accomplish, or even organize. xanthian. -- Posted via Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG