Rocks'n'Diamonds

There are in fact more than 40 *thousand* levels available. Though, there is a fair bit of duplication, and many are imports from other related games...

> nearly all of your own, already existing tapes on the server were marked as either "unsolvable" or "broken_tape", which I assume may be caused by re-ordering levels before releasing the final level set Seems like a tiny bit of shell scripting would let you match up these lost t...

With my usual stop-time techniques, this is not only solvable but you can conserve a dynamite to blow up the exit on your way out :)

Why would supporting Hercules be a challenge? Just because the graphics of any game would probably need a lot of work to be usable in a true monochrome mode? I added Hercules support to a couple of things back in the day (Borland Turbo Graphix Toolbox, and then Reflex DB). The one true challenge was...

I never realized that it was an actual defect, that this forum software doesn't have a 'Like' button :)

That's more like a 16-20% speedup (depending how you count sys & real time), which is better than 12%, but still astonishingly low. It makes me think that (1) Rosetta is remarkably good, but also (2) the compiler optimization for ARM & especially Apple Silicon is apparently pretty weak so fa...

It took a long time, but Holger did eventually implement horizontally wrapped levels for Emerald Mine. I expect that the difficulty level of accommodating vertically wrapped levels would be something like 50-75% as hard as horizontal. That's just a general feeling from my own several times implement...

I haven't looked at the downloads, only what's mentioned in text here. Anyway, the one menu thing that has consistently bugged me for years is: no keyboard shortcut for 'quit' from the main menu. It seems like at least a couple of Q, Ctrl+Q, Alt+Q, should quit. Maybe 'Q' would lead to the yes/no dia...

Hi -- I've downloaded this and did some diff'ing, but, really -- is there a comprehensive list of What's Different, somewhere? I see mouse mode added (but apparently some other control logic removed -- I think you haven't integrated some of Holger's newer control stuff e.g. from Android?); some Soko...

Can you make up any progress by grabbing the screenshots & animations in this thread, or are they too de-rezzed and contain too few of the lost images to be helpful?

On *ix filesystems, it is typical that you can overwrite a non-writable file, but can't write changes to the existing file. That is because you own the directory in which the file appears. Fully overwriting / rewriting a file is usually done as a sequence of operations: remove the old file (which wo...

... this sounds like potentially a description of the problem I just mentioned, which leads to incorrect playback of tapes made with use of 'quick save'.

If you describe in excruciating detail how to reproduce it, maybe it will get fixed and maybe that'll fix the entire quick save system!

Not sure of the edit history here -- just looking at what is written right here , I am wondering if this is another case where you needed to explicitly 'cut the tape' by hitting Record. (Note: I don't use the 'quick save' feature at all due to past problems where tapes created by it would play back ...

I think I understand the reason for this behavior is that tape state is precious. If you were playing back a tape, intending to append to it, but slipped and hit any key along the way, you would not want it to immediately cut the tape there. The tape is only cut on an explicit 'record' command. You'...

If moving aside the current setup.conf fixes the problem ... don't delete it! Post a copy of the bad version here so the knowledgable (Holger) and the curious (me) can look at it and figure out why it was so problematic, and how to not be susceptible to whatever-it-is in the future...