Game only, or interpreter behaviour as well?

[coding-horror]

Game only, or interpreter behaviour as well?

[journich]

My 2c here...

I've maintained the input of the original game in all of the ports I have worked on. So if it allowed two values to be entered, separated by a comma thats what my port did. If it allowed 1, I did that.

In general I've added little to no new functionality or have not changed the way the game worked in any way.

My reasoning not to change input routines is that someone might be looking at the basic code and trying to figure out how to do the same in whatever language they are using. So probably a good idea to not change the input functionality.

I do make sure I am using modern coding practices throughout though.

[drewjcooper]

I agree. I've ported a number of games to C#, and have keep the input behaviour the same as the original, down to the behaviour for incorrect input.

I've thought a couple of times that it might be nice to have a common library for all ports to use to get this common behaviour.

[coding-horror]

I'm not sure -- what do you think? We want to demonstrate good, modern coding practices most of all.

[journich]

Thanks @drewjcooper we are on the same page. I agree it might be a good idea to add a common library for all ports. Right now I am pretty keen to get all the games ported.