what the heck is “heap memory”?
All Palms have two types of memory, “Storage” (the memory in which all your programs are stored) and “Heap” memory, which is hidden from you by Palm OS because you normally never need to worry about it. Heap memory is used only by the Palm for running programs, rather like the RAM of a PC. Under normal circumstances, once a program is not running, the memory it used is fully available for the next. However, there are certain types of programs which have to remain in memory at all times. These programs are called “hacks” because they make changes to the way the Palm operating system works at a fundamental level. Because they make such changes, they need to be kept in memory at all times in order for their effect to remain active…and this reduces what is available for other programs! Again, under normal circumstances this is not a problem…but games require far more memory than most other programs in order to load their graphics and sounds, and the amount used by a hack (or more than
