04-26-2012, 09:19 PM
Like so many things, AA - it's often a question of asking which is the lesser of the evils, and in the end you have to make a choice.
It's not always the way everyone would like, mind. It's like the speed vs size question - sometimes one way is the right answer, and sometimes the other. Because I want more games programmers to find ZX Basic accessable, I've been leaning towards speed over size fot the library routines I'm writing. On the principle that the size version often fits into more standard zx basic routines anyway - perhaps with rom calls, anyway...
It's not always the way everyone would like, mind. It's like the speed vs size question - sometimes one way is the right answer, and sometimes the other. Because I want more games programmers to find ZX Basic accessable, I've been leaning towards speed over size fot the library routines I'm writing. On the principle that the size version often fits into more standard zx basic routines anyway - perhaps with rom calls, anyway...