On 18 June 2013 10:29, Justin Richards wrote: > It is a tall order but my son (12) has asked me several times to teach hi= m > how to write games. This seems like it would be so much easier on a > commodore 64 (I enjoyed moving sprites around the screen with a joystick) >... > > Any thoughts. > > Justin Have you considered MIT's Scratch? http://scratch.mit.edu/ If you got a Raspberry Pi (http://uk.farnell.com/raspberry-pi) for him, scratch is included in the default Linux distro's for it. Or you could just download it for windows using my first link. Regards Patrick --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .