[REALEASE] Special Operations v0.1 beta

the underminer · Post by **the underminer** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 5:31 am

Well, there it is, finally. After 7 months of work the Underminer brings you Special Operations, a splinter cell clone. Please tell me what you think and I 'm always curious for what you've made with it. Make sure you read the readme for buttons and limitations.
I want to thank Romero126 and all of luaplayer forum for their advice.
Enjoy!

Download for 1.50 (temporary download location):
http://home.wanadoo.nl/~d.vanhooff/Spec ... 201.50.rar

the underminer · Post by **the underminer** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 5:53 am

what's the icon size for games? Seems I guessed wrongly.

romero126 · Post by **romero126** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 10:29 am

It's always a great day to hear your name mentioned specifically in the special thanks catagory! Thanks! Im downloading it right now.

Wraggster · Post by **Wraggster** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 6:49 am

Thanks for a new release, ill spread the word :)

cools · Post by **cools** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 9:04 am

Similar thing happened with monopoly after a while, but i got around to fixing it. After you set your images/sounds/arrays/etc. to nil do a collectgarbage(). It will probably help you out a lot, ended up giving me around 7 meg. Maybe at the end of each level, set all images un-needed to nil and then call collectgarbage().

Hope it helps!

the underminer · Post by **the underminer** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 5:35 pm

cools wrote:Similar thing happened with monopoly after a while, but i got around to fixing it. After you set your images/sounds/arrays/etc. to nil do a collectgarbage(). It will probably help you out a lot, ended up giving me around 7 meg. Maybe at the end of each level, set all images un-needed to nil and then call collectgarbage().

Hope it helps!

Alas!, no. It doesnt help. I started the topic "memory issue" for this problem
Maybe that works on 0.20, but not on 0.15 (in my case)

the underminer · Post by **the underminer** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 8:27 pm

THIS IS NOT MEANT FOR DISTRIBUTION! IT'S NOT READY YET

romero126 · Post by **romero126** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 6:19 am

cools wrote:Similar thing happened with monopoly after a while, but i got around to fixing it. After you set your images/sounds/arrays/etc. to nil do a collectgarbage(). It will probably help you out a lot, ended up giving me around 7 meg. Maybe at the end of each level, set all images un-needed to nil and then call collectgarbage().

Hope it helps!

Shine wrote:
the underminer wrote:that command exists in lua, but I had no results again...
There was a problem in earlier version of Lua Player. With 0.20 and this code, saved as script.lua:
Code: Select all
white = Color.new&#40;255, 255, 255&#41;
screen&#58;print&#40;0, 0, System.getFreeMemory&#40;&#41; / 1024, white&#41;
test1 = Image.load&#40;"Applications/Snake/desert.png"&#41; 
test2 = Image.load&#40;"Applications/Snake/desert.png"&#41; 
test3 = Image.load&#40;"Applications/Snake/desert.png"&#41; 
screen&#58;print&#40;0, 8, System.getFreeMemory&#40;&#41; / 1024, white&#41;
test1 = nil 
test2 = nil 
test3 = nil 
collectgarbage&#40;&#41; 
screen&#58;print&#40;0, 16, System.getFreeMemory&#40;&#41; / 1024, white&#41;
while not Controls.read&#40;&#41;&#58;start&#40;&#41; do
	screen.waitVblankStart&#40;&#41;
	screen.flip&#40;&#41;
end
I get the result 9216, 6144, 9216.

So the right solution would be first to fix the memory problem with loading modules (maybe Oobles has any ideas about it) and then the modules loader for firmware > 1.5.

Rehash on cools quote.

the underminer · Post by **the underminer** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 6:01 pm

Version 0.2 is now available and the gameplay is much improved