Anya Shanahan's Shack

I only need to save 2 of 8 bits from the world flags, so a small amount of compression is in order. The easiest thing to do is simply remove the other bits from the fields as it’s put into the savegame database. turns a 10k structure into a 2.5k.

I’m still trying to fix the wobbly scrolling. There’s got to be some way of doing this simply.
Ok, I’m checking the keystate with the KeyCurrentState() call while scrolling, it seems to keep the animation in check.
I’ve just got the minor problem of flickering in the minimap now (high resolution).
Potential Fixes:

• Don’t ever paint ‘under’ the minimap
• Lose the minimap (not really an option)

Removing the paint-under for the minimap is an awkward one. For basic screen painting this requires preening the tiles that the minimap uses from the draw loop. The scrolling leads to an awkward problem. Previously the algorithm copied the entire screen up/down/left/right depending on the motion (memory prohibits a back-buffer).
In the interim, I’m allowing the toggling of the minimap in the configuration screen.

Ok,
the rendering of the minimap correctly on scrolling works correctly. Now I have to fix the scrolling being sluggish.
The problem is that there is no key-up event on the palm.
Memory footprint has been reduced – I checked the code that was being generated and shrunk quite a few functions, and moved some functions to different sections as they were being called either once per execution, or very rarely. Not that anyone would really care about things like this except little old me.

Well, i tried with pilrc 3.2 and no luck.

That’s Palm Tungsten T3’s – Turns out that whatever way the version of pilrc I am using does the resources, it is screwing up the contents of the string lists. From what I can tell it looks to be an alignment problem with the strings.
I’ll get a later version of pilrc and try with that.