Hello,

Thank you very much for making this watch. I have finally achieved my dream: writing a roguelike that runs on a watch.

You can see it here: http://www.zincland.com/roguewatch/

So, questions/comments:

1) Where's the printf font stored?

2) Is code/const data shared? And "resources" packed into the same area? I was sailing along wonderfully until I realized I was down to a few hundred bytes of code.

3) Tips/tricks to keep code size down?

That is insane. Well done!

Even tweeted about it

http://twitter.com/#!/Matt_Shea

Very cool game.
The printf font is built into the OS.
Resources are actually stored in spiflash. Using resources instead of natively drawing an image will save on code space, but the trade off is drawing speed.

Thank you! Still very much a skeleton in terms of gameplay, but that takes time to build up.



Yes, but is it stored as a bunch of bytes somewhere I can get a pointer to it? I've included an 8x8 font in my data section for the map, but would like to use the skinny printf font for messages to squeeze a few more characters in. And I don't want to include an extra font if it already is squirrelled away in the ROM somewhere.



Ooh... Anyway we can get at that as arbitrary data? Like loadFromSPIFlash(destaddr, spiaddress, lengthinbytes)?

And, speaking of memory, I presume our stack starts at the end of our 8k RAM and grows down until we start overwriting our data segment. Is there anyway to monitor this other than prayer?

The SDK doesn't give access to the char table unfortunately. We may consider giving access to the font in a future release.
Spiflash functions are also not exposed in the SDK. We are thinking of developing a system for storing lookup tables and other data in the spiflash.
The stack actually starts at the end of the first 4k. I haven't looked very deeply into monitoring RAM usage. You might be able to get more info by looking into the g++ sourcery (local compiling on linux).

Great use of the one button interface. I guess it's time for me to refresh on my morse code. Cool game!

Posted a blog about it on our site...

Im having trouble loading apps with resources (mac OS X 10.6.7), I am trying to make a simple app to render the time centered in the screen.

What FONT can I pass into pulse_init_dynamic_text_widget() to just get the printf font?

Also, any thoughts on trouble using apps with resources? I uploaded the psycho clock and only get the colored boxes, as I suspect the font didn't make it over.

Clearly a newbie here.

So cool! Major kudos to you, sir!

Try this line
The -r will load resources

@Killer Turtle . Thanks. The cleared things up. I thought that was used to only refresh resources, and the base script would do everything.