Exile

The previous articles covered how Exile (BBC Micro, 1988) generates its world and draws it.

The previous article looked at how Exile (BBC Micro, 1988) generates its 256×256-tile world from about 500 bytes of code.

Why Exile has been with me for a long time.

There is no source code Let’s get the awkward part out of the way: the original source to Exile does not exist in any form I have access to.

Exile (Superior Software, 1988) gave the BBC Micro something seemingly impossible: a single coherent world of 256×256 tiles with caverns, shafts, diagonal tunnels, a crashed spaceship, an underground base and all on a machine with 32KB of RAM, most of whi…