Rocks'n'Diamonds

Your .sig here points to deceased www,zomis,net/rnd (which redirects to rnd,zomis,net which is not home)... Thanks for uploading these. I'm stoked that my archive.org mining gave you enough metadata to find most of the files! Since you've been active, Holger has integrated a global 'high score serve...

According to https://web.archive.org/web/20070328223 ... =10&page=3, its title was 'The world 2x2 with things (095.level)', size 45kB -- maybe those details help you find it in your slushpile?

It does seem like your server already has most of the state, lacking only 'what levelset was I just playing' and 'what are my settings', more or less. And, of course, a login / authentication mechanism. Overall it looks like missing stuff is (from user's ~/.rocksndiamonds/ or equivalent): - scores/....

yes IPX: multiple players can join a game via IPX protocol, e.g. LAN yes TCP/IP: multiple players can join a game via TCP/IP protocol, e.g. the Internet IPX is an old network protocol (used by Novell Netware, back in the day). While it would technically be possible for LAN games to use it today (th...

'How many gems left' is the halting problem... It could be useful in some very simple cases. But so many things in RnD can change gem counts; and some level designs have things like unreachable gems as decorations outside the reachable play area. And again, coding a simple 'reachability' algorithm c...

How to show larger explanation text: - by keyboard: hit '?', explanation of currently highlighted item pops up - by mouse, long-click on item and explanation pops up - by touch, long-press item Explanations on the bottom line could still exist. If it's short enough, just display it. If too long: Loc...

This 'hover description' idea sounds excellent to me! Could be in effect on all settings screens, possibly also the main menu. On mouse / touch systems it could follow the mouse / finger until something's officially selected (clicked / touched); then follow the focus (highlighted item, like 'Count s...

(And yes, I do think about something like this, like a series of little tutorial texts for R'n'D, written in a new section in the forum and linked to from a documentation page on the R'n'D web site, so these tutorial texts could directly be discussed in the forum, and questions could be answered th...

I'm not sure how Holger (or this bbs software) feels about 100+MB uploads. I repackaged it from .zip(143M) to .7z(111M); then converted the .wav music files to 320Kbps .mp3, giving a final archive size of 18M. But not what the original author intended.

So, not sure what to upload...

I have copies ... can make available, not today

Prompting on completion would be annoying, of course... Inside the game, where might you see a level (a) which you haven't completed; (b) which you have? (a) (1) in the main menu, as the currently focused level of the current levelset (a) (2) inside the game (in active play / pause / etc) upon retry...

This would have been with the EMC engine -- would you have noticed if it would happen there? (Not tested current version for this, don't know if it's still happening...)

(I'm aware that you could do a series of edits which result in level versions which only work with a series of different engine versions, making a towering mess. I don't suggest to try to deal with that. Just pretend there is such a thing as an 'original environment' under which a level originally w...

Since you'll be making some small changes to level storage format, I think you can do better. Yes, when editing a level with 'old' markers inside, offer the opportunity to rewrite those markers to use the latest engine. But. Also leave behind a record showing what the original markers were. When lat...

> not due to bad memory, but due to bad programmer

eh. Writing this sort of stuff in raw C is like juggling running chainsaws. You appear to still have all your limbs, you're doing great...