Rocks'n'Diamonds

In theory, I agree with all you have said: - access permission pop-ups at install time are sort of "expected" behavior - people who update years later will have problems migrating their data - checking for the old profile directory forever will prevent such problems In practice, there are ...

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Fixed!

Thanks!

R'n'D is generally built to run without installer by design. But it depends: - I added a "setup.exe" version for Windows users, because it is pretty much the standard there - software on the Mac is generelly installed by copying a program package to the "Applications" folder (no ...

So only seven of 161'207 levels are affected by this issue! :o I also checked how many entries on the high score server are affected: - 224 for rnd_tutorial_ncrecc, level 003 - 132 for rnd_tutorial_ncrecc, level 004 - 134 for rnd_tutorial_ncrecc, level 006 - 4 for alaias, level 001 - 0 for Equinox_...

Yeah, changes like this are always ugly, regardless of trying to solve it as clever as possible. :( An API to just check for the pure existence of files or directories in a private directory like "Documents" is always a leak, of course -- it it would exist (which I strongly doubt, without ...

in setup.conf there is an option 'choose_from_top_leveldir:', what does this control? When set to "true", selecting level sets will start from the top level directory instead from the current level directory. What does this do? fallback_graphics_file: It redirects missing graphics files t...

Can you please retain the "--execute" doc in the help output? I have just removed it, but you may be right about it. Although I think it should at least be marked as "deprecated", and may be removed some day. But the next version will most probably contain another such "bre...

The thread you are referring to is nearly twenty years old, and R'n'D natively supports things like zip files now.

Is the --basepath forum just for testing out different DLLs etc, or does it have some deeper purpose? DLLs have already been loaded with the R'n'D executable when R'n'D parses the "--basepath" option. But you can use it to point any R'n'D executable to a different base directory, where th...

But Claude told me a way to explicitly attach to the console if there is one, so I will change R'n'D accordingly. Just added this -- works perfectly! :) Now command line options not only print their output to "rocksndiamonds.log", but also directly onto the command line also on WIndows sy...

Presumably this is a bug and will be fixed next release? No, this is not a bug, but standard Windows behavior for GUI apps. (Console apps work differently here and can output text to the command line interface (console), but for GUI apps, output to "stdout" (standard output) will just be ...

OK, just tested this on Windows 10, and everything works as expected (well, more or less)! :) For whatever reason, R'n'D on Windows does not print its output to the command line -- but you will find it in the file "Documents/Rocks'n'Diamonds/rocksndiamonds.log". So it you start the game in...

That sounds strange! I must admit that it is a long time ago since I last tested using command line switches on Windows, but I was sure that this still works -- apparently not! :shock: I will test this by myself as soon as I can, and check if something has to be changed to have command line options ...

I'm using R'n'D Jue II and I'm in "Classic Level Sets" and, under that, "Exception Two," and I'm on level 34. I'm not sure of the program version or how to check on that. Usually, you can just check the version number on the "info screen", but unfortunately, Jürgen has...

40 years ago, the first computer game released under the “Artsoft” label was written: “Der Weg nach Bree” , a German-language graphic adventure game (inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” ), written for the Commodore 64 in BASIC , in which you had to take on the role of Frodo Baggins ...