Rocks'n'Diamonds

Hello catlady, how have you created those levels initially? At that time there were no problems, I suppose. Have you then copied them to a different computer or something like that? But as HerzAusGold said, please check that there's a correct-looking "levelinfo.conf" in the directory with ...

".tar.gz" is an archive format used on Unix; I don't know for sure if you can unpack it with WinZip (I thought so, but probably I was wrong). What will work is "7-Zip" (http://www.7-zip.org/), which allows you to extract various archive format, and also tar and tar/gz formats. Us...

> In this case, I can provide really everything (at least, as far as I know), > without bringing confusion to the downloader. Yes, I think what you described is indeed the best solution (for those who easily want to find a certain game, and for those who want to have all variants of a file to make t...

> Other things that I don´t add are the RnDTests of HerzAusGold. The only > RnD test I added once is the Sokomode version, but maybe I will remove > it later, as they are only examples for Holger to add in the game. I mean, > they are all useless to the visitors. Why are they useless? I really won't...

> I don't think making a zip file containing all these files is a very good idea, > it would only "descend" the confusion you're now dealing with onto the > downloader. It seems to me that resolving the matter now and sparing it > to the others is a better idea. I agree here. I would keep ...

Just download the level archives and extract them into the "levels" directory inside the "Rocks'n'Diamonds" directory inside your "My Documents" directory! :-)

If you need any further help, please don't hesitate to ask, and we will help you! :-)

Although I haven't really checked them, I think that they are just slightly different versions of the same levelsets, and, as the naming convention looks like TOSEC disks, they are all put into the archive to provide the "right" version without checking the differences. As long as the bina...

> my site is finally online again

That's good news! :-)

It seems that I have nearly restored my system and development data now. Continuing with R'n'D now...

> Really? So it could be a ram issue? Yes, I think so. It could also be a problem with overheating components, like the CPU getting too hot (maybe because of a CPU fan failure), but I don't think so in this case, because you wrote that you were able to close/kill those frozen applications -- if it's...

Jannik: > Maybe you should think about a professional recovery service, like > http://www.ontrack.de. Very good site! In fact you are right -- if very much data was lost, it can be "cheaper" to pay some hundreds or even thousands of Euros instead of doing all the work again! :-o (In a sens...

This sounds very much like faulty memory (RAM) sticks to me... Do you have the possiblilty to temporarily exchange all your RAM (with a different computer, with a colleague's computer etc.)? If not, try removing all your RAM sticks except for one, and cycle through all your sticks (maybe only one st...

> Does Holger plan to implement any of these features in the actual game of > Rocks 'n' Diamonds? Yes! If time permits, I will add some of the features of RndTest to the "official" R'n'D! > Personally, I normally only use the current, official, stable version of Rocks > 'n' Diamonds. Altho...

> It always takes awhile to fully recover from hard disk failure. So true... Yesterday, I stopped the recovery of the most important (/home) partition because of too many bad sectors on the disk, but I think that I at least was able to copy many important (but not all) files from my home directory, ...

> Oh no!! I hope it will get well soon again! And that you can recover it! I hope so, too. The rescue software is still running at the moment, though... :-/ Only a "few" Megabytes are affected, but they are spread around the whole disk at hundreds of disk positions, so there will probably ...