> Watch your RAM, it is sooner gone than you might expect! You need at least
2 bytes for each star to store it's position and 3 bytes for each (visible)
enemy. In Thrust, I had to share a lots of bytes for different values, and
then it was getting hard not to get confused :)
I've said it before, I'll say it again, and I'll probably KEEP saying it.
Use the overlay system I used in Qb to manage your variable reuse. Its easy
to use, doesn't require you to remember what's used where, and works
brilliantly! The overlay system took variables from a severe problem in Qb
to one of the lesser things I had to worry about.
Source code for Qb (and hence how to do variable overlays) are on the Qb
page, see my sig.
Cheers
A
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