Author Topic: "Lost Legends" for 84+, An ASM RPG (Read 51054 times)

TIfanx1999 · « **Reply #180 on:** November 15, 2007, 06:22:00 am »

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A RPG in one page? I have to see this, even jamolta (spelling?) wouldn't fit on one page, not to discourage the progress or anything .

Jamolta? I assume you meant Joltima

and yea, joltima was like 14,000 bytes or so IIRC, and thats with out grayscale or gigantic enemy sprites.

I don't think he used compression though.

dinhotheone · « **Reply #181 on:** November 15, 2007, 06:32:00 am »

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A RPG in one page? I have to see this, even jamolta (spelling?) wouldn't fit on one page, not to discourage the progress or anything .

Jamolta? I assume you meant Joltima

and yea, joltima was like 14,000 bytes or so IIRC, and thats with out grayscale or gigantic enemy sprites.

I don't think he used compression though.

why doesn it matter? even black editions can make room for a 2page app of this quality

Liazon · « **Reply #182 on:** November 15, 2007, 03:50:00 pm »

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don't worry about space now. as long as it's less than 8-10 pages, we're good ^^

we can probalby compress after, though the annoying thing about that is where are we going to copy the decompressed data to? it's kinda a trade off between RAM usage and space taken up.

Zera · « **Reply #183 on:** November 15, 2007, 04:10:00 pm »

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I don't understand compression methods that well, but aren't there "container" compression methods that simply contain the data (with a trivial amount of compression) so it can be accessed directly?

Ranman · « **Reply #184 on:** November 15, 2007, 06:26:00 pm »

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though the annoying thing about that is where are we going to copy the decompressed data to? it's kinda a trade off between RAM usage and space taken up.

Absolutely... and it can be tricky if you are already short on RAM.

If you plan on compressing later, you should keep compression and decompression in mind as you plan your implementation.

JonimusPrime · « **Reply #185 on:** November 16, 2007, 02:09:00 am »

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That is one advantage of the 86 you can esily compress data with out issues because of the amount of ram you have to work with.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #186 on:** November 16, 2007, 04:01:00 am »

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I wish they did a 86+ (normal 86 with flash rom)

dinhotheone · « **Reply #187 on:** November 16, 2007, 02:50:00 pm »

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i wish the 86 didnt stink...

TIfanx1999 · « **Reply #188 on:** November 16, 2007, 03:01:00 pm »

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Theres nothing wrong with the 86.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #189 on:** November 16, 2007, 03:19:00 pm »

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true, it sucks there is no archive though

TIfanx1999 · « **Reply #190 on:** November 16, 2007, 03:23:00 pm »

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Yea, so that just means no apps. not a big deal really. you got 96 k user ram to work with anyways

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DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #191 on:** November 16, 2007, 03:32:00 pm »

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yeah but no protection against random crashes

JonimusPrime · « **Reply #192 on:** November 17, 2007, 05:24:00 am »

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Well for Crashes Brandonw Intorduced me to chmasc Which works most of the time to restore you memory after a ram clear on an 86. and The larger screen size of the 86 is really nice.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #193 on:** November 17, 2007, 12:39:00 pm »

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oh nice i didnt knew this program existed. It,s like RAM recovery for Omnicalc, right?

Liazon · « **Reply #194 on:** November 17, 2007, 01:37:00 pm »

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Yea, so that just means no apps. not a big deal really. you got 96 k user ram to work with anyways

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you'd have to manually swap RAM pages though. It's almost like writing an APP while not being an app o.o