Memory full

[FredTheFred]

Hello all.

I've got a problem with the memory on Colecovision. When you use sprites you use rle2ram to move data on Ram to Vram. But can i use the method for an template in ascii or the something like as ?

 

This is a sample cave's code for design the template room

const byte ways202 []={0x20,0x20,0x20,0x5C,0x20,0x20,0x20,0x20,0x20,0x20,0x20,0x20,0x20,0x20,0x20,0x20,0x20,0x20,0x20,0x20,0x20,0x20,0x20,0x20,0x20,0x20,0x20,0x20,0x2F,0x20,0x20,0x20};

I think all along the game i fill Ram or Vram and after some minutes the game crash.

 

 

[Kiwi]

Please use rle2vram(SpriteData,0x3800) to decompress sprites from Cartridge ROM directly to VRAM. A full sprite pattern table takes 1000-2000 bytes of memory. No need to decompress to RAM first and then upload the data to VRAM, since the rle data is already accessible by CPU.