Re: A85: My problem with libraries
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Re: A85: My problem with libraries
Ess i think you're reffering to the wrong person.
I was the one who wrote LodeRunner (how'd you see the source to know how
crappy it was?). I know Jimmy told you about the PhatOS. I had
meantioned the idea to him telling him it would be a good idea for
usgard, and that i was planning on doing abit of work with it myself. (i
can't belive he wouldn't have gave me & Martin Hock credit when he told
you that). Yes i think that usgard is rather large and unoptimized, but
it does have a few good features. (when i remember what they were i'll
let you know) but the problem was that there was no documentation on the
features so we could not add them to PhatOS. Personally I think this
whole thing with shells has gotten abit out of hand; look at some of the
stuff that has been said, for god's sake it's a damn calculator and not
a gameboy.
As for your comment on library support yes i do belive it should be
removed, because not eveyone wants a huge multi routine library just to
play one game that uses one routine; and because not everyone has one of
those fancy expander things. A new version of Usgard without Librarys
and with fixed location sounds good, but isn't that going to be exctaly
like PhatOS then? if that's the case maybe we should merge the shells.
My main problem with Usgard is that everyone is thinking oh it's so
great, so perfect and all that worship crap, that write programs only
for usgard. No I'm not pissed because they write a PhatOS only game I'm
pissed at the thought that inorder to play that game i need to fill my
calculator with usgard & all the libraries required for usgard AND the
game before i can even play the game. People tell me to get a life and
program for usgard because programs made for it are smaller. That is not
entirely true people! Like I said by the time i get usgard & allt he
librays on there and the game i've wasted more space than just zshell
and that game.
(btw that was a pretty cheap shot at LodeRunner don't you think?, I mean
hey it was my first program.)
Mike Baker
mbm00@hotmail.com
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Ess Andreas wrote:
>
> Quite a long time ago, Jimmy suggested to me a PhatOS like relocation. The problem with this are that I couldn't use neither libraries nor TSRs, but this wouldn't be too bad, as it seems. Perhaps I get around to make a new version of Usgard with fixed relocation, without libraries and TSRs and with ROM 2.0 support.
>
> BTW, Mike, you said "Usgard was large and imho not optimized"... Large may be true, but first take a look at your lame Loderunner source before saying that Usgard isn't optimized.
>
> Andreas
>
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> From: Michael Pearce[SMTP:mikep@anet-dfw.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 11, 1997 6:02 AM
> To: list-zshell@lists.ticalc.org
> Subject: A85: My problem with libraries
>
> Well, i just wanted to say the problem i am having with using
> libraries for Usgard. Maybe they aren't problems, just complaints.
> In my Solomon's Key game, i use 3 sprite routines. Putsprite,
> PutSprite with transparency, and a routine to read the background from
> the video memory. Only one of these is in a library. And
> furthermore, i am only using 8X8 sprites. I have over 50 sprites in
> the game right now (i think). So i am wasting 2 bytes for each sprite
> by putting ".db 8,8" at the beginning when this should be in the
> sprite routine itself. 2 bytes * 50 sprites = 100 additional bytes.
> And, i need an almost 400 byte library (spritlib) of which i only use
> less than 100 bytes (for PutSprite). I can imagine that Jimmy Mardell
> may have also realized this. His new version of Sqrxz doesn't use the
> Sprite Library for most likely these same reasons. But, on the other
> hand, if Jimmy Mardell's game and my game could share the exact same
> sprite routines (without putting ".db 8,8"), i guess that would save
> about 200+ bytes for the sprite routines and 100 bytes for the sprites
> themselves. So there would *possibly* be a savings of 300 bytes for
> my game. Man, statistics are great. I can make them say whatever i
> want! I don't know exactly what all of this is supposed to mean, but
> i'm sure it says something to different people. It can either say
> "WASTE, WASTE, WASTE" or it can say "SAVE, SAVE, SAVE". But at the
> moment since there isn't a library with those 3 routines, the usage of
> libraries is wasteful for me.
>
> -mike
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