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I thought you had the help from someone on Discord that owned several physical machines from the MZ series? I haven't used one for well over 40 years and even then I only coded in BASIC, so I doubt I can be of much help. I will likely be looking more closely at coding in Z80 assembly and how 8-bit o...

Yes, the Z-machine is a virtual machine with a narrow focus that was designed for use with a domain specific language (ZIL) for creating parser-based text adventures, such as Zork. SCUMM and ScummVM were designed to create point and click adventure games, such as Maniac Mansion. I'm not a huge fan o...

How is support for the Sharp MZ series progressing?

Would it be practical to create a virtual machine using ugBASIC? Would it be fast enough?

I'm thinking of something like Infocom's Z-Machine or Level 9's A-machine, which were designed to allow the same byte code to run text adventures on multiple 8-bit computers.

How capable is ugBASIC at the moment? I know that it is still a work in progress, but does it currently have enough features to be used to create a text adventure game for all the computer (not console) platforms it supports? I'm thinking of something along the lines of Colossal Cave Adventure, whic...

I've thought about this some more and have come up with another option: GLOBAL could be stated as part of the variable type declaration.

I would prefer a flexible syntax where each parameter is optional. I would also like the option to define the value of a variable when declaring it as global. Something like:- GLOBAL greeting AS STRING = "Hello there." or GLOBAL greeting$ = "Hello there." See Global in the PureBA...

I don't remember using an 8-bit machine that would allow you to use a variable as a line number for GOTO or GOSUB.

SELECT CASE statements or ON x GOTO/GOSUB would work instead in most situations.

For me, the file metaphor makes more sense as I would want to be able to load and save data via cassette tape and disks on physical machines.

Unless I'm missing something, seeing the medium as an addressable memory space wouldn't work well with the serial nature of tapes.

So, the syntax would be something like this? :- (If setting every bit to a value of 1.)