Re: Inform: screen dimensions


Thu, 12 Oct 1995 13:20:24 GMT

>>>>> "Gareth" == Gareth Rees <gdr11@cl.cam.ac.uk> writes:

> I'm not sure that you can reasonably demand any width or height of
> screen. I don't know how big the Psion hand-held computer is, but
> the screen can't be much taller than about 10 lines.

Actually, it's variable (depending on font size), but 11 lines is
confortable, which gives about 60 characters to the line. (Most fonts
are proportional.)

> But if the player types "plain", then the towers are described in
> text instead:

> A wooden board, bearing three pegs. On the left peg are a big
> disk, a medium disk and a small disk. The middle peg is empty. The
> right peg is empty.

That's a nice touch. What irritates me is games which insist on
having a large screen even when it doesn't really seem to matter.
Trinity appears to be like that, although it may well be that there
are crucial bits which require a large screen.

-- 
Bruce                   Institute of Advanced Scientific Computation
bruce@liverpool.ac.uk   University of Liverpool
http://supr.scm.liv.ac.uk/~bruce/