Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: alex@teeth.demon.co.uk (Alex Amsel) Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.2d_graphics Subject: Re: Yaroze - was I right to buy ? Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 12:44:19 GMT Organization: Into Beyond Lines: 36 Message-ID: <336251ff.2308688@news.playstation.co.uk> References: <01bc5030$6f732280$2f19e8c3@cma> <335F39AE.16E8@dial.pipex.com> <01bc5086$cef47be0$02018484@chrisa> Reply-To: alex@teeth.demon.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: teeth.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99g/32.335 On 24 Apr 1997 08:04:10 GMT, "Chris Allmark" did quoth at me: >we already have a few *good* programmers on board. (don't get a big head >Alex) me?? I just make it all up. AFAIK Del is the best programmer around here. I just post a lot as it is the best way to help people and find out when I'm completely and utterly wrong (frequent). e.g. I spent 30 minutes debugging a very odd error last night when Mark kindly pointed out I was doing i++ before initialising the bloody thing. Ther routine had worked for ages since it only used the i value the first time it was run, but when I made a change it all fucked. I love bugs like that! >BTW: Once I've loaded my sprites into VRAM can I free the memory they once >occupied (or is this done automatically ?). The memory is never marked as taken. You should set the heap yourself at the start of your code. I don't allow my heap to cover the gfx data because if you do then you must download all the graphics every time you run a new test version. For those that don't know, the Yaroze DOES NOT clear it's ram when you quit back to the serial program, so next time you test stuff you can simply download main + any modified data. Assuming you don't corrupt your own ram/data. I had to make a few changes to my code to reset some pointers within data structures dled to the PlayStation, but that only took 30 secs and overall development time is cut by HUGE amounts! * Alex Amsel * Into Beyond Web Design & JAVA Programming * * http://www.intobeyond.com * WWFC Utter Rubbish 1996-7* MM - "Steve Corica is every bit as good as that Kinkladze"