more pages please

[james cardona]

I am pretty maxed out with text page and all 5 machine pages full.  how can I add a machine page 6?  I have been searching through the tools directory for a few hours and I can't find where the data is sent to their pages.

[james cardona]

another thing - there are some system pages that are not full - could I put my code there?  such as the common page and effects page (pages 56 and 57)?  if so, how would I do that?  specify __COMMON__ instead of __MACHINE5_PAGE__?

[Brian Dominy]

All of the required changes are in the top-level Makefile and in include/env.h.  You'll sacrifice a page of DMD graphics though... I would use page 51.

Take a look at these previous commits when machine4/5 were added (git show from the command-line, or browse on github):

16cfed0131

b249a53ea

ba8214ce48

You could use the common page, but it is already pretty full and you risk your code not compiling when I make changes to the OS.

I haven't studied your code in depth, but you ought to go through it all and try to use reusable functions as much as possible, to keep the code size down.  If you find yourself copying and pasting a lot, then the code size will grow quickly.

- Brian

[james cardona]

ok I changed the way the sizes are reported to 50% in stead of 90% so I can better see how to move things around and also deleted some hand drawn deffs that I didn't use much which gave me almost a page.  I may fill up the common as a last resort.  I think I can get at least 2 video modes in with this amount of space, but probably not 3.

direct    XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX...  warning: 85% full
ram       XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX....  warning: 80% full
local     XXXXXXXXXXXXXX..........  warning: 57% full
permanent XXXXX...................
nvram     XXXXX...................
dirtab    XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX  warning: 100% full
registers ........................
.flag     XXXXX...................
.globalfla........................
.freetimer........................
page52    XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.......  warning: 68% full   (MACHINE5)
page53    XXXXX...................   (MACHINE4)
page54    XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX  warning: 98% full   (MACHINE3)
page55    XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX  warning: 98% full   (MACHINE2)
page56    XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX......  warning: 75% full   (COMMON)
page57    XXXXXXXXXX..............   (EFFECT DEFF LEFF TRANS INIT)
page58    XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX....  warning: 82% full   (TEST MACHINE_TEST)
page59    XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX  warning: 96% full   (MACHINE EVENT)
page60    XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX..  warning: 91% full   (PAGED_MD TEST2 COMMON2)
page61    XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX...  warning: 86% full   (FONT FON)
.text     XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX..  warning: 90% full

[Ewan Meadows]

Sheesh, and I thought I was running short of space on my TZ rom.

Very well done!