The advantage of an interpreter is that you only need the processing, memory and display resources to play the game, not an entire system. Unlike emulators, which reverse engineer an entire computer platform allowing you to use, for example, Apple IIGS software on Mac OS X thanks to Sweet 16, game interpreters have reverse engineered the game engine, so that the data files of original games can be utilised just as they were originally utilised by their executable files for the platforms they were originally written (DOS, Amiga, Atari ST, etc). Recently, I became aware of adventure game interpreters. What I'm going to propose may sound preposterous, but I'm going to put it out there anyway, for the truly adventurous at heart. It's certainly felt there's been a resurgence of interest for the IIGS in 2008.īy comparison however, new software is lacking. What a bumper year it's been for IIGS hardware: The custom built IIGS portable, version 2.0 of the CFFA card (review coming soon!) and the updated Focus Controller and Sirius RAM by Tony Diaz. Posted by Alex Lee on 15 September 2008 | 162 Comments Game Interpreters: an Adventure in Themselves?
