Rocks'n'Diamonds

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...

A new pull from master-next-patch-release builds cleanly & supports multi-monitor as intended / expected.

This was as I was revisiting a levelset I finished years ago, so -- I have no idea how it was set at that time. But, supposing it is as you say -- this makes an ugly situation. No way to fix that levelset, except either manually edit its levelsetup.conf, or go back and play every level in sequence? ...

I'm not doing any further specific testing with this, it seems to just work -- as long as I prevent it from checking that such a screen number actually exists. I'm having a new problem which I'm not sure if it's caused by the recent code updates. When I switch to a levelset I've solved some levels o...

> BTW: Filbo, according to that thread, you should also have downloaded that level set. Heh. Yeah, I just hadn't found it in my quick search... and I don't think I've ever properly unpacked it into my system-wide levelset hierarchy. I try to do good cleanup / triage on stuff before that happens, and...

$ ./rocksndiamonds --display 9 [WARN] invalid display 9 -- using display 0 (SDL_GetNumVideoDisplays() returns 0) I don't have 9 displays, but I do have two. RnD 'future' insists on displaying on the first one, which we see here is due to SDL insisting only one exists. It plays fine on the 2nd scree...

So, origin/master-next-patch-release doesn't build: gcc -DDEBUG -g -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -DTARGET_SDL2 -I/usr/include/SDL2 -D_REENTRANT -c files.c files.c: In function ‘CreateCollectElementImages’: files.c:13492:51: error: ‘SDL_PIXELFORMAT_RGBA32’ undeclared (first use in th...

Why do you have a separate repo hostname instead of just branches on the one repo? I ask this from the perspective of 'I am comfortable switching between remote branches on a single repo, but haven't learned git multi-repo stuff yet...' :) I just tried this and kablooie: $ git remote add --fetch bui...

Here's an update with a bunch of improvements. But still shows dates off-by-a-month, because the fix for that is just too ugly... This basically just makes it able to display most of the same info about older files, back to RnD save file version 1.0 (with more and more info available as the format i...

@jm28121977 -- it would help to include a link to what you found! (I see Holger's going off to find it, but that shouldn't be necessary...) The first 56 are on my system as: /usr/share/games/rocksndiamonds/levels/Contributions/Contributions_2003/rnd_gavin_davidson -- i.e. part of Holger's 'contribut...

You said you changed a directory from hidden to not-hidden; that must be the difference.

Not only don't need Administrator, but, you should not run things as Administrator if you can possibly avoid it. I would be deeply suspicious of any game that demanded to be run as Administrator. Your error message shows: C:\Games\Rocks'n'Diamonds\rocksndiamonds.exe Can you show a simple DOS directo...

There are endless issues with the 'easy to use' orientation switch in Android. It really would be better for the game to have its own control. The version of Android I'm using has a setting where orientation doesn't automatically change when rotated; instead, a little symbol appears in the corner, w...

I think those two tutorial sets are Historic Artifacts and don't need any changes. They are what they are, from the times they came from. (I'm a little inconsistent on this, because if there's a Historic Levelset where some of the levels are unplayable due to original design errors -- never were pla...