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This is an exercise in some advance programming topics using a text adventure as the central result. This originally began as a project to recreate an old BASIC text adventure, on the ZX Spectrum, using Z80. After developing a very simple byte code VM to handle the game interactions, I realised that there was an opportunity to use some more advance techniques, which in turn can lead to some PC based tools.

Ursine Core is/was a simple RPG-type game development library/toolkit for the Atari Video Computer System (VCS) model 2600. (That's the 1977 Atari game console.) This library is intended to be portable to other MOS-65xx-based computers (6507, 6502, 6510, 2A03, 8502), and introducing support for other systems is ongoing (Commodore VIC-20, 64, 16/+4, 128; Apple ][; Nintendo Entertainment System) Ursine Core is a developer's suite hosted on a POSIX-like workstation. The Ursine Core provides: * converters for PNG graphics into tile, font, and sprite artwork for the various platforms * converters for MIDI and (soon) waveform audio into sound effects or music * string conversions and font support * tile-based "walk about" map mode ("overhead view") * "storybook" screens with bitmap graphics * simple text-driven menus * a custom language for writing scripts, that compiles into efficient machine code Note that this project is GPL, but games produced by it need no