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Message: 6653

Author: andrewbroad

Date: 25/03/2010

Subject: Re: JSWED's Memory screen / Suggestions for JSWED

 

Roger wrote:

>
> I'm doing ok so far with the patches themselves such as the
> reversing conveyors with Walk (but not Jump) keys disabled when on
> a conveyor. All good fun, you can't walk against them!

Impressive!

> DM referred to being able to reserve memory yourself for sprite use
> but I can't find out how this is actually done. Help please?

JSWED's Memory screen allows you to classify each page of memory (except those already classified as 'R') as either Free ( ), Sprites (S) or Reserved (r). Just click on the rectangle to the right of the page's start-address to toggle it between these three classes. Those pages classified as 'S' can then be viewed in the Sprites screen.

> On the question of import and export of sections of byte data from
> bank 0, this would be incredibly useful and I'm hoping that John
> might consider adding this function to JSWED :-)

It would help if JSWED could export and import binary files for a specified range of addresses – perhaps from the context-menu of the Hex screen.

Of course, this would result in lots of little binary files, and JSWED's file-browser does not make it easy to navigate to directories other than "C:\Program Files\JSWED2", which, for me, is cluttered up with sprite-files and test-files that I really ought to clear out, but I cannot bring myself to delete them (note to self: put them in subdirectories), whereas I keep my main game-files in "My Documents", and open them by dragging and dropping them onto the Shortcut to jswed.exe in my Quick Launch.

The Game screen allows you to select or deselect some existing patches, but it does not allow you to choose where in memory to put any subroutines they may introduce, nor does it allow you to add your own patches for easy access in the future (with addresses and parameters such as colours and positions easily editable).

It would be nice if the Game screen could support these facilities in a future revision of JSWED, which should also keep track of which addresses become used or free as the user selects or deselects the patches that his/her copy of JSWED knows about.

> Thanks again for your patience. I don't think the email given to me
> by this group would actually work, incidentally, so if anyone wants
> to email me directly use the one given in What Willy Did Next
> please.

Every Yahoo! account comes with a free email-address AFAIK – have you tried visiting the Mail section of Yahoo! whilst signed in as jsw1984?

--
Dr. Andrew Broad

 

 

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