I've got an ongoing rant over on PocketPCThoughts talking about the latest Where is My RAM? blog post from the WM Team.

Go check it out at:

http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/ ... hp?t=44678

Jon

I was trying out (read: playing) Whirlwind 21 on WM5 when I noticed with every card I was dealt that GSPlayer would stutter in the background. Once through the entire deck and it stopped.

What I believe is happening is that the first time I am displaying a particular card resource image from pegcards.dll its loading it from the flash memory and caching it, causing a considerable delay.

I loaded up solitaire to see if the problem occurred there and I noticed that it took an extra second to start up than I was used to. I bet it preloads all the images to avoid the stutter. I think I will make an updated version that does this as well and hopefully eliminate it.

Jon

I've updated my PPC with WM5 and have proceeded to test all of my applications under it. For the most part there are no problems, so yay for me.

The one exception to this is the modified version of PocketNester I made to better utilize the VGA screen. I based my code on the modifications Emulamer on Aximsite made for PocketSNES, but something isn't quite right under WM5. I intend to investigate.

Another small annoyance is that the distributed version of gsgetfile.dll that several of my programs use in lieu of the default file open dialog is not WM5 compatable. The text shows only as the empty boxes that indicate a font problem (probably a language problem.) The good news is this can be fixed by downloading the latest version of gsgetfile.dll from here. Look for the file named gsgetfile-i.zip (I can't hotlink the file because it's hosted on geocities. bah.)

I'll update the archives with the latest version when I get some time.

Jon

I always swore I'd never make a blog, but there are a lot of things I'd like to post about in regards to the software that I develop as a hobby.

Plus with the RSS syndication here (assuming it works) I can let people subscribe to my announcements so they can be notified of when I update or add software, which seems better than trying to go around to all the various sites and post about it. Maybe I'll have some better visibility for the various other programs I've written.

I occasionally will rant about particular nusances in WM and the development environments as well. I could use an outlet to vent about something these days.

Commenting is initially disabled until I gauge how effectively I can limit comment spam.

Jon