Re: [Emutos-devel] Splitting the 512K ROMs

[Thorsten O. <ad...@th...>]

On Mittwoch, 10. Februar 2021 03:23:29 CET Roger Burrows wrote:

I think most has already been said. The only situation were a multi-language 
TOS might be useful is, when you not only supply EmuTOS, but a complete 
"distribution", like eg. the minipack. In that case, using a multi-language 
capable EmuTOS that works for everyone is very handy.

OTOH, some time ago i already started to rework the multi-language feature 
(not yet completed). I came to the conclusion that is should be possible to 
get rid of all the hash & lookup tables. All that remains is a lookup table 
per language (about 200 bytes for each language), plus the translated texts 
(about 8-9K per language currently). That should free some considerable room 
in the 512k ROMs, and also get rid of the runtime-overhead of looking up the 
strings.