Re: A86: FF:TC for 86? (Who knows at this point?)

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Re: A86: FF:TC for 86? (Who knows at this point?)


firstly, you can't be josh, because *i'm* josh. :)
as for one large program, if you're incredibly sneaky you can have
programs as large as 30k, but it's a serious pain in the butt.  normal
asm programs can only be about 9k or so.
i'm guessing a lot of the memory for an rpg would be in the form of data,
which you could store in external strings and essentially have all the
ti-86's memory available.  a single string can be as large as 64k.
if you've got more than 9k of asm code, there are several ways of
splitting it into smaller sections.  you could have several 9k sections
and let the ti-os do some of the switching between them, or you could
have a 9k section control a larger chunk in a funkier way.
essentially, you've got all the ram to play with.

-josh

On Sun, 19 Dec 1999 09:58:41 EST DorkReMi@aol.com writes:
>
>Well, in true Josh form, I am surprising the world.  I don't know if 
>you guys know who I am, but I'm in Macross Software and I'm working on 
>writing Final Fantasy: The Calling, an RPG battler, currently for the 
>TI-85.  More and more as I look at the 85's lacking memory capacity, I 
>get the urge to program it for something with more memory (if you're 
>_really_ intuitive, you'll guess that that's why I joined this mailing 
>list).  However, what I really want to know is, how much memory does 
>the 86 have accessible to program ASM?  I know that the RAM is paged, 
>after reading every tutorial in existence, but where does this leave 
>me in terms of programming a large program for the 86?
>
>Secondly, do you all give a damn if I program this game for the 86?  
>If I had more memory to deal with (as I would with the 86), I would be 
>inclined to make it more of an ffvii clone instead of what I have now, 
>e.g. materia growth, better graphics, _lots_ more spells, etc.  That's 
>_if_ there's interest, and _if_ I find out I can access more memory 
>than, say, 16K.
>
>What do you guys think?
>
>P.S.  Sorry, Mikel, for not telling you first. :P
>
>-Josh Morris, Macross Software
> morrija0@sewanee.edu
>
>

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