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From: Andrew Murray <mad.max@which.net>
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Subject: Re: Exploitation
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 03:28:40 +0100
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No sorry. I didn't mean it that way. What I meant was exactly what you said with
the incrementation thingy used only as an option for those that NEED more RAM
and not WANT more RAM.

Nick Ferguson wrote:

> > Right now I am developing a game that I will admit is a bit ambitious
> > but I will do it due to careful planning and design. Even if games get
> > too big for the 2MB use an incrementation method whereby levels are
> > sectioned out and only the data for this level is loaded, then when
> > finished you can hook your levels together in order for them to be
> > published on the OPM disk ( I don't know that the NY game is allowed any
> > more that 2MB but I recon it's strict).
>
> Whenever I read stuff like this, I feel a bit like saying "There's plenty of
> room to have a great game in the 2MB we get". Oops, I already did. But
> seriously, there are plenty of ways to be "clever" about writing a game and
> fit a graphically-impressive, extremely playable game into one-loadings
> worth. Think about the space that classic games such as Zelda on SNES etc
> took up; I think that part of being a good NY coder is being inventive with
> the space you're given. :)
>
> My point: why does 'ambition' require an extra 2, 4 or 16 MB of RAM? My case
> will be proven when (if) the NY2 gets released and a few months into it
> people start asking for more RAM, or faster libraries etc ;) We're console
> programmers here, not performance-sucking PC programmers!
>
> Anyone else feel this way, or am I the only miserable bugger?
>
> Nick "limited output" F