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Aha! Huffman on the Speccy. 12000 words is pretty impressive. Given that you are stem searching, I'm not sure a doubling of word count would be untenable. You are still miles from being able to include the entire 200MB SOWPOD dictionary (zips to about 600k).

Indeed! I've got a 1.7MB dictionary I use for puzzle games - still relatively massive. I suppose you could compress it down to 5 bits per character as you only need to store 26 characters, no punctuation. Maybe it already does that.

The name you gave this emulator is jolly good!

Amazing achievement really, and it even has quite a snazzy tile shuffler from what I remember

I used to play this loads. I think the limited dictionary makes it a more realistic opponent for a fool like me.

Yeah, same here!

Text, attributes, a couple of UDGs, a dictionary, a remarkably effective anagram solver. I'd be fascinated to know whether a 128k version with a larger dictionary would be materially better.

It would potentially triple the dictionary size, so maybe, but would also slow the game down - more words to search. It's probably just perfect as it is.