Rocks'n'Diamonds

> It's an 80GB Maxtor and apparently they get hot! Indeed they do! :-o Guess what type the hard drive was that failed for me a few weeks ago with bad sectors, causing loss of some valuable data and the need to search for many different, old backups to restore most of the R'n'D development data (yes,...

OK, it's July 5th now...

Hope all you Americans out there had a nice Independence Day! :-)

When I was in the US the last few days, I was surprised to see a booth selling fireworks at each and every street corner! (I was in Washington, not D.C., but around Seattle.)

:-)

Sorry for the silence last week -- my company sent me to Redmond (yes, to Microsoft), but told me so only very few days ago. I expected to be able to use the forum also from the USA, but unfortunately, my laptop (yes, Windows based) refused to get an IP address from the hotel's WLAN DHCP server, so ...

> Everytime I save the tape during a level (not finshing a level) part by part,
> the screen located the player even you move once, I'm guess this is a
> hidden bug.

Could you describe that in more detail? I'm not sure if I got it... :-o

Any others who also have encountered this?

> Sometimes when the player runs through normal doors and a butterfly is > coming on the other side the player kills the butterfly and cause of the > diamonds he can't go through the door and stand IN the door. Just checked this! Looks strange in 3.1.2! But this seems to be more of a graphical bug t...

>>> - Yamyams are invisible in level creator (e.g. level 000), you have to >>> press Ctrl and move the mouse over, to find them >> Hmm, this doesn't seem to happen with my current version of that level >> set -- maybe I did something so that this is fixed now... :-/ > You have to release a new versi...

> Wasn't setting the overall game speed something already on Holger's > TODO list? If I'm right, he would add it in the coming version. I would like > to play the game a bit faster. Overall game speed is another thing here, and yes, it should have already been added, I think. It won't be in 3.2.0, b...

Another thing I just wanted to comment on: >> If they're not used, then why are they there? > dark corners after 10 years of development (or may be for the future?) Yeah, absolutely! There are quite some more of such "dark corners" which I already wanted to clean up long ago (like a few le...

> Sorry, that's wrong! Shocked Whoops! You're right! :-o > a) x=3;a=QUAD(x++); // results in a = 3*3 = 9, x = 5 > b) x=3;a=QUAD(++x); // results in a = 5*5 = 25, x = 5 Just tested this -- indeed... :-o > a) first the multiplication is done, then the assigment, then the both > (past)increments. > > b...

> I don't really know how could I have missed this one: Mirror Magic. You > don't publicise it so much, don't you, Holger? Well, not more or less than R'n'D, in fact. It's just that I (nearly) never got any player created levels for MM, and nobody has ever asked for a forum (which is the reason why ...

> That's exactly what I wanted to avoid. Hum. Why? > Which is exactly what happened Smile Really?! Very good. I thought that it didn't warn... But I think that it did not reject the subsequent levels with same dir name, but is just unable to memorize the last played set then (of course). > But still...

Well, most problems that I (hopefully) have solved with these new micro chunks now (like flexibility and extensibility) would be commonly solved using XML files these days. It's just that I still couldn't stand using XML files for R'n'D levels! :-o ;-) Especially the BODY chunk (and other raw data c...

> Could then be written like this in more human understandable code: [...] Yup, exactly right! >> x = 3; >> a = QUAD(x++); // leads to "a=((x++)*(x++))" > Depending on whether to execute the "x++" inside QUAD() or not. But I > think it does gets executed... but if it gets execute...

> If there are too many custom speed settings, it could break the game engine: > - movement schemes - that worked in 100 games before - could fail > - a rock would not be a rock any more, you're scared that it could smash > through the housing of your monitor ... > - Yamyams could transform unexpect...

> 1. Please change the sort priority of the EMC levels to 'Emerald Mine' > (I don't know which code it was again. 500 maybe?). I know, it has nothing > to do with 3.2.0-8 in particular, but something to be reported anyway. Jup, it's 500. Do the EMC test level sets have a different sort priority? Sho...