Ideas for speeding up:

[v912152@schierbeek.si.hhs.nl]

Well, coding the AMIGA-port of Crossfire, I had a nice time finding any
speed-ups and here is what I found (contributions are welcome) :

- Place all gates and handles in 'object *map->gates'.
  This results in far faster handling of handles/buttons, because only
  map->gates has to be checked for corresponding gates (not the whole map!)

- put all ALIVE, MONSTER and ANIMATE objects in 'object *map->alive'.
  This way we only parse the needed stuff, not all the passive treasure,
  handles, food, etc...
  (This REALLY speed up the amiga-version!)

- Place more data in the archtype.
  Not for the speed, but more for the memory-usage.


Some announcements for the AMIGA-port :

- I'am actually PLAYING the game right now!

- I still could use some help on speeding-up the game.
  (I solved the graphics and input, so that is out of the question now)

- Anyone having some interesting idea should mail me. (I will mail the source
  to frank where I am satisfied is works)

- Technical info:
  * Converted bitmaps to bitmaps.amiga file (all bitmaps simply put binary in 
    one file)
  * Uses all the original files (arhcetypes, mapindex, motd, map.oo & map.om)
  * runs on a 2 meg amiga (whilst playing musics),
    probably on a 1 meg too (without music!).


That's it, CUL8R, Patrick van Logchem v912152@si.hhs.nl