List of games by memory needed?

[clueless]

I added another entry for when there was ecs and aga versions and labled them accordingly.

" 1 Game requires 0.2Mb chip mem (+0.1Mb other memory for preload option)

2 Game needs 1.0 MB Of Chipmem & 2.1MB of Fastmem (for preload option)

3 The installed program requires 0.5 MB ChipMem and 0.5 MB OtherMem

4 - 512 Kb ChipMem (+256 Kb OtherMem for the kickstart)"



For those examples:-
Chip - other - total

1 0.2 0.1 0.3

2 1.0 2.1 3.1

3 0.5 0.5 1.0

4 0.5 0.25 0.75


another example I came across was this type of thing, need 0.5 chip and 0.5 other (plus 1.5Mb for preload) - which I edited as

0.5 - 2.0 - 2.5


If anyone like TCD or KG has anything to add as to the format of this - could they speak up before we get started properly.
Anyway, will reload another version in the zone, cheers!

[silkworm]

ok I think I got it.
now I just need to sort out the excel thing
I'm doing 20 things at once here. hyper.

edit: ok excel works now with the new file

[silkworm]

what about another column to say whether it uses kickem 13 or 31 in devs, a lot of earlier installs did'nt but most newer ones do.

[silkworm]

I've done s upto slamtilt which says 2chip 1other but doesnt mention how much for preload, as don't a lot of others, so I stop for now and wait. cos its not helpfull without the info being proper. and alot of the infos don't state preload, what to do ?

[clueless]

i think the info is for preload, as it is set as a standard option in WHDload and is not recommended to be switched off - which is why i suggested to add any preload info to the standard chip and other mem info.

[clueless]

Originally Posted by silkworm

I've done s upto slamtilt

thats pretty good going!

[silkworm]

i'll finish up the s' tomorrow and send you the file (how do I do that ?) and you can check to see if I'm doing it right. also I put ? where there is no info about memory.

[TCD]

Originally Posted by clueless

@TCD

Name - - - - - - Bytes - - - Date - - - - - Author / Contact - - - -Chip - - - - Other----- Total
A10 Tank Killer ----3776-----5 5.10.2002 ------JOTD ---------------0.5---------- 0.5-------- 1.0

(difficult to show a table on here)

etc etc, that kind of thing, worth it? only include totals including preload? useful?

Chip/Other/Preload would be great Chip and Other for the minimum requirements and Preload as the max amount of memory needed. Looking forward to your and slikworms list Keep it up

[clueless]

problem is there are so many different methods of listing the requirements in the info docs. I assume if there is no proload mem mentioned, the memory reqs mentioned include that.

[TCD]

Yep, just put chip + other as preload if nothing else is mentioned. I know it's a lot of manual work, but I bet many people will be very thankful in the end

[clueless]

yes slikworm - looks good to me!

[Wepl]

I could generate such a list except for the PreLoad size, if wished.
I also added the speces from the slaves to the whdload pages (means exact sizes required for Base/ExpMem).

[clueless]

Wepl - yes please!

[Wepl]

try http://whdload.de/games.csv

[seuden]

Would it be easier to use google docs for something like this?

[clueless]

dont know what googledocs is - never used it

@wepl - thank you,

could someone explain the last three columns to me in idiot terms please? Is that the same as I was doing? chip - other - total for the preload option?

so basically, if you have that amount left in workbench you can run the game with simply a double click?

[alexh]

I assume:

basemem = Chip RAM
expmem = Other RAM (including Fast & Slow, Z3 etc.)
memsum = Total RAM (basemem + expmem)

I think that these are the amounts required for the slave to work EXCLUDING the amount needed for preload. But I dunno for sure.

[Wepl]

Originally Posted by alexh

I assume:

basemem = Chip RAM
expmem = Other RAM (including Fast & Slow, Z3 etc.)
memsum = Total RAM (basemem + expmem)

I think that these are the amounts required for the slave to work EXCLUDING the amount needed for preload. But I dunno for sure.

yes. expmem can also be chipmem (e.g. on a 2mb chip only machine).
memory for os, whdload itself and preload must be added

! there was a error in the script ! causing the expmem and memsum to be wrong, the list has been updated now.

[rare_j]

Thank you for this very useful info Wepl.

[Wepl]

I have added a query for all slaves, contains also Slaves from old/outdated installs. Can be downloaded here:
http://cgi.whdload.net/slaves.cgi