Is MemXAtari useful?

[Harry Potter]

Hi!  I am an egotist and desire feedback on my software.  Did anybody here download my MemXAtari library for cc65?  Did you find it useful?  How can I improve it?

[VinsCool]

Personally I am not a memory map wizard but I've found absolutely no reason to use this yet.

I have no idea what could be done for improving it, to be honest.

[ivop]

You ZIP file contains over 130 files or something, including object files, a.out files, and .BAT files. It is totally unclear why your library would be better than existing extended memory libraries. And your "low memory" stuff is ridiculous. It will break in so many instances, just for a few bytes, it's not worth considering. Sorry, it had to be said.

Edited January 27, 2022 by ivop

[drac030]

Hehe, I just took a look:

 

lib_cfg\atarixl_small.cfg:

 

#Code used for loading MEM.SAV, shouldn't be needed by a cc65  program.
    MEMSAVM_:    file = "memx1.bin", define = yes, start = $15A4, size = $015C, optional = yes;

 

@Harry Potter you do not really believe what you have been told (that $15A4 is the address of the binary loader in DOS 2.0), nor what you saw yourself with your own eyes (viz. that the program built with these settings, no matter how simple, does not work), right?

[Harry Potter]

Low memory-usage seems to work for me at the cost of the system crashing upon exit.  The mentioned library provides functions to use extended memory almost as if it were regular memory.  It includes functions to access any byte or word in memory and versions of the standard string and memory functions to use extended memory.

[Harry Potter]

Just disable the Low memory stubs and use the rest of the library's functions.  It should still work. 

[TGB1718]

For me I can't see any real use especially if a program crashes on exit, that would mean a cold start,

not what you want if your developing something and every time you test it you have to do a cold start.

 

I also don't understand what your trying to achieve, sorry.

[drac030]

18 minutes ago, TGB1718 said:

I also don't understand what your trying to achieve, sorry.

He said that:

 

 

He wants attention.

[+Stephen]

39 minutes ago, drac030 said:

He wants attention.

Well, releasing nothing but shit code that doesn't work is one sure fire way of getting it.

[drac030]

1 hour ago, Stephen said:

Well, releasing nothing but shit code that doesn't work is one sure fire way of getting it.

Actually, it is. Doing something blatantly against the rules and reason is one sure fire way of getting attention on the internet and otherwise.

 

This is why, for example, in the academic world any stupid publications are customarily ignored. Otherwise publishing (at own expense) a book containing nonsense would be the best way to get a lot of citations (thus improving its author's Hirsch index), because everyone else would rush to quote the nonsense in order to refute it.