Why I rebuilt Exile, and how

Why Exile has been with me for a long time. It was published for the BBC Micro in 1988, written by Peter Irvin and Jeremy Smith, coming towards the end of the BBCs commercial life and when many were, or had, moved on. However it was clear to everyone who played it that it was doing things an 8-bit machine had no business doing: a vast procedurally generated cave system, creatures that seemed to…