And it's pretty obvious this one is using it too. A way around it would be to ask the admins to add a bb tag for it. Not sure it's gonna happen though.

Cool. Gonna give it a shot sometime today.

There used to be a button but since the forum upgrade you can no longer do it yourself. Ask a moderator to do it.

The map data (only the terrain pics) are pulled from the original and the appear is about 4.5k (probably less, I don't remember). And it will be permanently archived. I think the user RAM requirement will be much lower than Reuben due to the simpler nature of Illusiat. For example, the map engine runs 100% from safe RAM. The data it needs is preloaded in the appropriate area.
About progress : I added a very bare title screen (the pic AoC made but with no menu) and the terrain data has been merged into a single appvar. I figured out I didn't need an ultra flexible way to generate appvars from scratch so I make them by hand.

LOL at the Xeda's native language thing. I think she's the only one to have started with hex actually.

Did some cleanup + merging. The map engine as it stands is 1057 bytes, but that includes some data that will be moved to an appvar. Hopefully the strategy I came up with to make these on calc is good enough.

Well, even though it performs worse on Linux, it still gives much better 3D performance than xf86-video-ati.