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Get your weapons ready! zMegaman Released!
« on: April 12, 2013, 08:43:20 pm »
Earlier today, zMegaman was released on <a href=http://www.ticalc.org.>ticalc.org</a>. zMegaman is a brand new Mega man game that pays homage to the classic platform series that was popular on the NES throughout the late 80s and early 90s. The game features beautiful graphics and smooth gameplay, sure to please any Mega man fan. Whether you're an old Mega man fan, or just a fan of classic gaming, this game is a must play. Head over to <a href=http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/452/45299.html>ticalc.org</a> for a download, and give it a try today!

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Re: Get your weapons ready! zMegaman Released!
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2013, 08:45:36 pm »
I never played megaman, but that does look nice indeed :)

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Re: Get your weapons ready! zMegaman Released!
« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2013, 09:07:06 pm »
DUDE YES The old Megaman stuff was okay... for hardcore fans, it was all we had but we loved it. But, this is SO much better! :D
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Re: Get your weapons ready! zMegaman Released!
« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2013, 09:45:23 pm »
Looks amazing! There have been so many promises of a MegaMan but this is the first time ive seen such a great release!
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Re: Get your weapons ready! zMegaman Released!
« Reply #4 on: April 14, 2013, 02:51:13 am »
Looks really great! It doesn't look finished (missing transitions or other quirks like shmibs mentions), but it's much better and complete than the already existing MegaMan games for Z80 calcs (the cross-platform one is really basic and looks kinda rushed, although it was a classic at the time, and the 86 one has incredibly short stages and slow framerate (although it features grayscale and sound)

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Re: Get your weapons ready! zMegaman Released!
« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2013, 04:46:50 am »
I don't get why the readme says "Unfortunately due to the size of the program, it's currently --LIMITED TO THE 83+SE AND ABOVE--, but we're working on trying to get around this limitation and add 83+ support." ???

On the contrary, my 84+SE has so much programs (even archived they take some RAM) that its RAM is low (around 21000 bytes), so it can't run this game. And on the contrary, my 83+ is so empty that it still has 23000 bytes of RAM and can easily run this game (didn't try but I am sure it would work).
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Re: Get your weapons ready! zMegaman Released!
« Reply #6 on: April 14, 2013, 05:04:32 am »
Your 84+ SE should have more free ram than that if you have nothing in ram.

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Re: Get your weapons ready! zMegaman Released!
« Reply #7 on: April 14, 2013, 05:41:53 am »
Your 84+ SE should have more free ram than that if you have nothing in ram.
Not sure about that. I just tried making a RAM Clear and looking at the available RAM right after, it still says 20619.
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Re: Get your weapons ready! zMegaman Released!
« Reply #8 on: April 14, 2013, 07:52:19 am »
For some reason all your RAM isn't being reclaimed. I had this issue before as well. I don't remember how I fixed it. You should have about 24,372 free RAM (that is what I'm looking at on my 84+ SE).

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Re: Get your weapons ready! zMegaman Released!
« Reply #9 on: April 14, 2013, 12:10:07 pm »
Just to be clear, when you have lots of programs, even if they're archived, the VAT entries remain in RAM. If you want to free up more RAM you'll need to delete programs, archiving them still leaves the VAT entry, depending on the size of the name maybe 7-15 bytes? I'm not sure on the exact size. Clearing your RAM will still leave the VAT entries in RAM.

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Re: Get your weapons ready! zMegaman Released!
« Reply #10 on: April 14, 2013, 12:24:57 pm »
Yeah that's why so many people had troubles with Gemini and the problem was particularly bad when people had Zelda installed. I think each VAT entry are 12 bytes or something.

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Re: Get your weapons ready! zMegaman Released!
« Reply #11 on: April 14, 2013, 02:30:14 pm »
VAT entries are twelve bytes, and also, clearing your RAM helps. Don't do math with OS variables prior to playing large games, and graphing/strings/lists/matrices are huge NO-NO's.
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Re: Get your weapons ready! zMegaman Released!
« Reply #12 on: April 14, 2013, 07:25:58 pm »
I haven't had a chance to try this yet, but it does look great!

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Re: Get your weapons ready! zMegaman Released!
« Reply #13 on: April 14, 2013, 11:06:01 pm »
I am curious about who released this by the way, since this seems to be an anonymous release on ticalc.org? I know that Chickendude was involved in a Megaman clone before but I wonder if it had any link with this one?

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Re: Get your weapons ready! zMegaman Released!
« Reply #14 on: April 15, 2013, 03:08:54 am »
I am curious about who released this by the way, since this seems to be an anonymous release on ticalc.org? I know that Chickendude was involved in a Megaman clone before but I wonder if it had any link with this one?
Well they wish to remain anonymous so lets not try to find out.

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