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==Versions== | ==Versions== | ||
It has been revamped a number of times, usually to improve graphics. | It has been revamped a number of times, usually to improve graphics. | ||
A version was created by [[Mark Hansgate]] for the [[Commodore Amiga]] which was used briefly during 1994. This featured greatly improved graphics over the BBC Micro version but proved to be unreliable (with Guru Meditation [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Meditation] being a regular feature) and so was abandoned. | |||
The PC version was by [[Adam Baxter]] written in Visual Basic, and updated in {{unsure|1998}} by [[Chris Parker]] still in Visual Basic but this time supporting a wider range of sizes and colour depths of display bitmaps. However this version suffered from storing a running ticker (below the bitmap portion) in a CSV file which wasn't escaped, so ticker items enclosed in quotes would crash the program leaving a Windows 3.11 error box being broadcast. | The PC version was by [[Adam Baxter]] written in Visual Basic, and updated in {{unsure|1998}} by [[Chris Parker]] still in Visual Basic but this time supporting a wider range of sizes and colour depths of display bitmaps. However this version suffered from storing a running ticker (below the bitmap portion) in a CSV file which wasn't escaped, so ticker items enclosed in quotes would crash the program leaving a Windows 3.11 error box being broadcast. |
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