The GBA now seems to be deprecated by Nintendo in favour of the DS. However due to the difficulty of getting games to run on this new handheld, I'll continue with the older model. My next project is probably going to be a port of "Linux Rogue". In fact it is an old project I semi-finished before Elite AGB. It actually plays pretty well, with a nice control scheme and cute 8x8 tile graphics. I just need to tidy up the Game Over sequence, add some saving of hi scores and stuff.
I continue messing about with Linux as well. It reminds me a lot of the olden days of the 8-bits where you could dabble with writing your own 'stuff' in BASIC - here one uses shell scripts to do computery stuff. All good fun, but a bit time wastey. Anyway, after (or during) finishing off Rogue I'm going to 'port' my remake of Castle Master to the PC. This is already underway and (hopefully) I should be able to make it generic enough to run other Freescape games. Currently I have got CM and CM2 running on the GBA version. Total Eclipse is hacked in, but as I wrote this remake in C, I have a load of ifdefs all over the place. The new version is in C++ and I plan on using inheritence and all that jazz to get round the various differences in the games. Watch this space.
Edit: Gah! Open GL is too good for a crap Freescape clone - sledgehammer, nut - and now the Ovine Boys have announced Total Eclipse.. so I give up. (Plus PC games are dull.)
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