Are we sticking to the basic machines or would people consider games for a dedicated platform.

What I mean is can a game be developed for the Electron or BBC that was on disk only or a game maybee just for the BBC Master or even an expanded Electron?

Generally speaking, that content wise we could get a lot more out of a BBC Master or Expanded Electron (It would be nice to see what someone could program for one of these)

I had been thinking of a graphics adventure for the Electron where screens were loaded in off the disk as you visted each location, obviously this wouldnt work on tape. Ive even got a few routines worked out. (Roughly!)

I get the impression that people no more now, about upgraded machines than we did then, the poll on the SWTH about equipment suggest's that most people have some sort of disk drive for there Electron and there are a lot of people with BBC Masters.

Could we do it

I think go with what you want to do. If you want to program for a Master or ELK only version with disks then go for it. Your right, most people will have disks for the Beebs, perhaps not for the ELK, but if you want to do it then do it. Don't think we should have any sort of rules/guidelines for this sort of thing (IMO).

For a Master are you referring to paging in the different SRAMs? That can be done from BASIC can't it via OS calls?

Not easily. As to page in an SRAM you page out BASIC, they occupy the same physical address space. You can read data in the SRAM via OSCalls into BASIC. But can't just page in a entire bank and access it from BASIC as BASIC will no longer be present in the machines address space.