Making a "Ram-o-meter" for Dreamcast.

Post by **Falco Girgis** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 10:07 am

Games like Viva la Samba with streaming music, assloads of images, customizable everything, ect. use a shitload of ram.

So I'm going to make a ram-o-meter that I can use during debug (and activate debug with keyboard once it's done).

It'll look like a loadbar showing how much of the total ram is being used.

I'm going to do the same thing I do to find filesize of a file I'm going to stream, only I'll find how many bytes are being used.

The only problem is that that isn't including variables. . .

Oh well, it shouldn't make that much of a difference, VLS is pretty efficient as far as that goes.

Post by **JS Lemming** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 4:09 pm

I thought there was a function that returns available memory.

Post by **Falco Girgis** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 4:48 pm

That's kinda why I made this post. Nobody here gives a shit, I just want to know if there was a function that already does it or not.

Either way, it's not going to give you a visual representation.

Post by **JS Lemming** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 7:33 am

That post sounded really negative toward me. :?

Lay off.

Gyro wrote:Either way, it's not going to give you a visual representation.

I don't get it... if you know the max amount of mem and the amount of mem already in use, you can make a visual representation. What are you talking about?

Post by **MarauderIIC** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 6:29 pm

I think he means, the base function.

Post by **JS Lemming** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 7:13 pm

MarauderIIC wrote:I think he means, the base function.

Are you saying that he is wondering if there is a function that actually draws out the amount of ram consumed in the form of a progress bar? If so.... I'm speechless.

Post by **MarauderIIC** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 7:44 pm

Either way, it [(the base function) is] not going to give you a visual representation.

So he's making one. But that's what I read. Maybe he'll be kind enough to clear it up.

Post by **Falco Girgis** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 11:24 am

Jesus christ. I am asking for a base function. I said that a base function wouldn't draw to the screen how much ram is left.

Thus I'd have to draw to screen how much ram is left.

And yeah, that was really negative towards you. You've never contributed anything useful or even anything about your own developments and here I am spilling everything to you guys, sharing, letting people in on what's going on in my game dev.

So yeah, I'm not going to lay off. I've already said a billion times that this is just stupid.

Post by **MarauderIIC** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 1:13 pm

Not that I game dev much ;p My updates tend to go in news or AIM though. Ah, well.

Post by **Falco Girgis** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 1:27 pm

Oh, I understand. I wasn't talking to you. :D

Post by **MarauderIIC** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 1:33 pm

Why not make game dev public?

Imprezamtt · Post by **Imprezamtt** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 4:14 pm

How did a cool little proggy discussion turn into a forest fire??

Post by **MarauderIIC** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 4:59 pm

'Cause GV's being a dick lately.

Nobody here gives a -blam!-, I just want to know if there was a function that already does it or not.

Post by **Falco Girgis** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 5:36 pm

No, that one was true actually.

If he gave a shit, he would have had the courtesy to show us something of his.

It's not an obligation; it's like a mutual agreement there. That's part of what being a dev team is about: sharing ideas and knowledge and crap, not me sharing my stuff.

JSL, if you ever get married, you will get some horrible sex (if any). That kind of mentality the "omg! you're expecting something from me!?" isn't exactly appealing. It's just kind of a courtesy thing.

Wutai · Post by **Wutai** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 5:39 pm

Flammage Topic movement?