Shadowrun Info

My Liver Hurtz · Post by **My Liver Hurtz** » Sun Feb 08, 2004 3:23 pm

MadTom wrote:According to KevEdit's help file, the board limit is not 20kb (20480 bytes), it's actually somewhere around 20000 bytes. That's the point at which KevEdit starts to report board instability in the board dialog (press I), and it's usually almost exactly at that point that I start to experience problems.

How many bytes are in one kilobyte? I think this is why ZZWorks is not reporting filesizes correctly. It's always off by one or two kilobytes.[/quote]

Post by **clecky** » Sun Feb 08, 2004 3:30 pm

Isn't it 1024 or something?

453 · Post by **453** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 12:22 am

zzt.exe dynamically allocates a buffer of exactly 20000 bytes which it uses to (among other things) store boards when switching between them. you can go over that limit, but since the memory is dynamically allocated you can never tell what (if anything) the bytes beyond the limit will overwrite. any board under 20000 bytes should always work.

Ryan Ferneau · Post by **Ryan Ferneau** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 12:11 am

Ha. Yeah. I figured that's how it worked.

My Liver Hurtz · Post by **My Liver Hurtz** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 12:43 pm

Clecky wrote:Isn't it 1024 or something?

Okay, thanks. In any case it should be more accurate than 1000. I'll go recompile the program now because I have five minutes to waste.

Edit: Yep, that number works great.