04-08-2012, 04:00 PM
boriel Wrote:britlion Wrote:Since DRAW is alwaws packed with ZX BASIC I guess it would be rather easy to replace them so no duplicated code is included and so, some precious bytes saved!
Boriel:
Why is it always packed with ZX Basic? One thing Hisoft Basic did well was paring down the runtime modules to a minimum - they were only included in the final code if they were called. I suspect ZX Basic could be more modular, with more code separated out and INCLUDE ONCEd, so that it's only packed in if it's needed. If people are going to make full sized games, they are going to need every last byte!
INCY/DECY are classic examples of code that could be included from SPPack and from Draw - but only if one parent is included; and INCLUDE ONCEd so that they only get glued in once if both are needed...