Rocks'n'Diamonds

Something has definitely broken in the forum. Today when I reloaded the top page it showed new activity in General Discussion, Bug Reports and Off Topic -- but only this one (OT) actually had new activity. I have the checkbox at the bottom of each forum, next to "Subscribe forum", but I do...

Until this reply just now by Lee Brewer, I hadn't seen any activity on RnD forums for weeks. BUT! Today I see half a dozen posts by Holger, all from August 25th! All about graphics corruption fixed in one of the 4.0.0 git checkins. I check every day or two, reloading http://www.artsoft.org/forum/ind...

What OS & version; what version of RnD; built by you, downloaded prebuilt from here, or built by your distro; what version and build pedigree of SDL libraries?

Perhaps the bug can be described as "no `make install` target in Makefile". Instead, the packager has to figure out what parts of the source tree constitute a working game setup. So perhaps they should refer to the installable packages on your site? Well yeah. But those include source, and...

Same on Ubuntu. The Ubuntu package descends linearly from the Debian. But I think this is more a bug in RnD itself. The top-level Makefile has a bunch of targets which refer to ./Scripts/make_{backup,dist,enginetest,levelsketch_images,prerelease}.sh -- but ./Scripts/... is not pulled by `git pull`, ...

Thanks for "getting" me, James :)

The new options work -- thanks! While playing with them (along with the `sudo ln -s ~/.rocksndiamonds/tapes/$LEVELSET $GAME_DATA/levels/"$LEVELSET_DIR"/$LEVELSET/tapes` workaround), my ~/.rocksndiamonds/levelsetup/$LEVELSET/levelsetup.conf got blown away. Not sure exactly what I did to cau...

> I have built both "libsmpeg" and "libsmpeg2" (for SDL_mixer and SDL2_mixer) from source code -- > they are not identical (or symlinked against each others), but probably prepared to build against > SDL_mixer 1.2.x and SDL2_mixer 2.0.x. Ok, so I really am using a bastardized mix...

I was finally moved to try (harder) to build with libsdl2. My RnD machine is running Ubuntu 12.04 "precise". I installed SDL2 from https://launchpad.net/~zoogie/+archive/ubuntu/sdl2-snapshots ... then the build couldn't find libsmpeg2. Well, I could get that from where khvolk said, but -- ...

I have, and recommend for other players, the following tape keys (Setup -> Key Shortcuts -> Tape Buttons): '0' Eject Tape '1' Warp / Single Step '2' Stop Tape '3' Pause / Unpause Tape '4' Record Tape '5' Play Tape As well as (Setup -> Key Shortcuts -> Various Keys): ' ' (space) Start Game & Togg...

Hi Holger, For reasons which should be apparent, I did this before starting to play EMC Bond Mine 11 level 71: $ cp ~/.rocksndiamonds/tapes/emc_bond_mine_11/07{0,1}.tape I then played it back until the point where I had to diverge (much sooner than I'd expected) and solved the level from there. Afte...

Posting a "bump" for the above requests, since I ran into it while searching whether I had ever posted another bug which I'm about to post...

Very nice!

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Can you disable Avast for long enough to test that way?

I don't think you can do it in a platform-independent way, but you're already aware of what platform you're being built for, so that makes little difference. 100 sounds pretty sharply constrained; maybe 1000? As a default on platforms where you don't yet have a better way of knowing. The better (pla...