[OLPC-Games] Micropolis source code release!

[Antoine van Gelder]

Bloody genius Don !

:-D

I spent my holiday working on a muchly simplified Forth that compiles 
down to Python bytecode as the back-end for a visual programming 
language for xobots - didn't get nearly as far as I wanted thanks to a 
crashing hard drive and a generally unusually hectic December *twitch* 
*twitch* but I reckon I'm about half-way through and - so far - the idea 
is proving workable - workload willing I hope to have something to share 
by the end of January. :)

The idea is basically that this is a way for the kids to be able to use 
the system either from the Python or the Forth-ish but in a - 
so-to-speak - completely native way where the library environment 
they're used to from the one is transparently accessible from the other 
and any code they wrote in the one is directly accessible from the other 
without the need for kids to have to generate bindings for their code.


Some random questions if I may ?

  * Do you have any sample code for the Micropolis source ?

  * How large can the playing field get on the OLPC before the tile 
engine starts freaking out ?

  * Can tiles contain tiles ?

  * Is this aversion to C++ just a slashdot thing or is it American ?

  * *grin* -> _Completely_ unrelated -> I've been offered some part-time 
contract work here in ZA doing GPS-ish stuff using xpcom and xulrunner 
and I see you're doing similar work -> is that particular combination of 
problem&tool a pain or a joy for you ?


Tx!

  - a