RPG for the Proto/Demo board

blittled

I was introduced to the Propeller at the Propeller NE Expo and have converted a USB Protoboard to accept Spin Studio Cards as per OBC's Cookbook. I have been scratching my head to figure out a good challenging project to get started with the Propeller since I learn by doing and the bigger the challenge the better. So I was thinking of doing something along a lines of a game like Ultima I. My first thoughts on this is that it would require:
Video - TV
Keyboard
Sound
SD Card - files for World map, Dungeon Maps and Scripting
Scripting Engine

I plan on doing most of it in PASM since there would be a lot of memory caching from files on the SD Card so I am debating on creating custom drivers or using the ones in OBEX. Since this idea is in its infancy, suggestions and comments on if this is possible and how to do it, are more than welcome.

Because I'm new on the forum and so you don't think I'm having delusions of godhood here is a little background on me. My education is in digitial electronics with a degree in electrical engineering and have been a programmer the past 20 years using Z80, 6502, 6800, MASM (Microchip) Assembly, Basic, C, C# VB6, Visual Studio.NET, various web languages (html.,asp, php, javascript) and used the following OSs; CPM, DOS, UNIX Windows. My hobby is programming microcontrollers; Basic Stamp, Pic chips, Propeller etc.

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Ym2413a

Sounds like a cool project. [noparse]:)[/noparse]
Ultima was great fun back in the day!

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Oldbitcollector (Jeff)

Welcome to the forum! {and the Propeller for that matter}

a new game is always welcome! Sounds like a fun project!
I've been meaning to start a little survey here to see if some of those free propellers have
brought folks into the interesting projects. I'm sure Parallax would love to know that too!

OBC

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Rayman

I would like to port Nethack... I bet with the C compiler and a Prop II, it could be done...

Baggers

blittled, Welcome to the forum and propeller, if you feel you want to re-do the drivers in PASM and feel confident enough to do it, then by all means go for it [noparse]:)[/noparse] after all, you learn by doing [noparse];)[/noparse] and the OBEX is only there for you if you don't want to re-invent the wheel. Ultima, good choice of RPG's [noparse]:)[/noparse] I'm sure I'm not just talking from my point of view, but I bet we'll all look forward to watching your progress [noparse];)[/noparse]

Baggers.

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