geometry drawing remains my vote for now.

Next, I'm sure to vote reading from archive. A must for large games ^^

That would be nice indeed. On the computer you can get an estimate by taking the app computer file size and divide it by half, but it is not always very accurate

as I said, though, it is not 100% accurate. Doing this with Axe Parser APP shows a size of above 16384 bytes

what's wrong with my wording?

oh ok . Well I kinda dislike when people point out a mistake and do it in a so unclear way . Thanks Builderboy for at least clarifying him

Why doesn't axe archive/leave archived the source and use a temp program for compiling? This would eliminate the chance of deleting your program.

That's a really cool idea, but I'm sure people don't want a lot of Garbage Collects.  Personally I think it' an awesome idea.  Could this be an option...

Ok that's good.

I don't know the inner workings of axe, but couldn't you change the last letter of the source name to something random, like B or %, archive it, remake the source program, and copy the source back from archive? That way, the backup would always be there and would not require any extra ram to create.

You could then have an option to restore backup.

Edit:
    Better yet, just change it's type to appVar, no name changing required.

I don't know the inner workings of axe, but couldn't you change the last letter of the source name to something random, like B or %, archive it, remake the source program, and copy the source back from archive? That way, the backup would always be there and would not require any extra ram to create.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking.  The only problem with having it as an appvar though is that then if the ram clear does occur, it would be tricky to get the file back as a program.  You would either have to use an external tool or I would have to add some kind of option in Axe.  What I'll probably do is just always save the backup to the same file and call it "ZBackUp%" or something using illegal characters to guarantee that it won't already exist.  The Z so it always shows up at the bottom of the list.  Also I can give it a backup header instead of a regular one so that it can be restored to its original name.

Also, I'm not sure you can rename a file that's in archive without unarchiving it first.  The symbol table can be renamed, but a copy of the name is also in the archive which could lead to complications becasue during a ram clear when the symbol table gets wiped, it will be regenerated with the incorrect name.