Rocks'n'Diamonds

Hi -- for those of us not doing active artwork design etc. -- what do we do with this?!? Well, I guess I figured out most of it for myself, so here are my notes: I downloaded the full thing: rnd_show_keys_2014_wide_rnd_2013.zip. If I make the extracted directory live at either my own directory ~/.ro...

Sorry to resurrect an old topic, but I just found this and thought I'd chime in. :) Hi Martin -- I must apologize for not actually having tried to email you outside of this forum, like I said I was going to. I was going to do it eventually, but I'm glad you found your way here without my tardy prom...

Haha... I see that I totally forgot to attach the "figures"!

On the wrong computer right now, will post later, just for completeness...

>Bela<

I'm seeing some graphical glitches with the "Small Game Graphics" mode and certain EMC levels. An example is "The Adventures of Mr. B Part 1" ("$RO_GAME_DIR/levels/Emerald Mine Club/emc_adventures_of_mr_b_1" and its associated graphics files "$RO_GAME_DIR/levels/Em...

Attached is a tape for level 35 of "The adventures of Mr. B Part 1" (level file "$RO_GAME_DIR/levels/Emerald Mine Club/emc_adventures_of_mr_b_1/35", tape file "$USERDATA_DIRECTORY/tapes/emc_adventures_of_mr_b_1/035.tape"). This actually plays out three different ways on...

>> - It displays the start(?) of each level as it prepares to solve it > Yeah, that's right. First I planned to run it completely inside the shell (to be able to batch-run it regularly), but I've lost focus on this, as it would require changes regarding graphic and sound output at several places, wh...

setbuf() should be compatible with all RnD port targets. --- src/libgame/misc.c.orig 2013-11-22 11:04:23.000000000 -0800 +++ src/libgame/misc.c 2014-07-12 22:22:19.000000000 -0700 @@ -3107,6 +3107,11 @@ if ((program.error_file = fopen(program.error_filename, MODE_WRITE)) == NULL) fprintf_newline(std...

In http://artsoft.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2134&sid=741c934596473b52a0d66a31ca98614b&sid=741c934596473b52a0d66a31ca98614b#p13232 I wrote: - Each exit reminds me of a bug I've been experiencing, where the process hangs stuck in what `strace` shows as: $ strace -p5501 Process 5501 att...

An interim solution (to find out how many tapes are affected) would be to auto-play all your tapes automatically over night, and see which tapes succeed, and which (and how many) are broken when played with the latest version. (See the "autoplay LEVELDIR [NR ...]" command line command for...

I have on my system two RnD binaries. One was provided by Canonical / Ubuntu in rocksndiamonds_3.3.0.1+dfsg1-2_amd64.deb (available from https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/oneiric/amd64/rocksndiamonds/3.3.0.1+dfsg1-2 ). I built the other myself from source. Both are 64-bit (AMD64) binaries. Some tapes ori...

I'm thinking of adding a third kind of tapes which contain "demo tapes" (maybe stored in a "demos" sub-directory) which could be played automatically after some time of idling in the main menu. I sometimes move files around in my tapes directories, e.g. in ~/.rocksndiamonds/tape...

The "R'n'D jue" levelsets (installable from http://www.artsoft.org/rocksndiamonds/levels.html ) does this sort of thing extensively. Note there is also a complete "R'n'D jue" game, separately compilable from RnD sources -- I have never actually run that and am not sure what it do...

Will we be able to drag the corner of a window [or whatever the local window manager's "resize window" action is] and thus change the number of viewed playfield cells? That would be nice. I see you now have original and half-size tiles. Any possibility of creating arbitrary tile sizes? You...

Ok, that seems like a healthy attitude -- and it helps guide things like this. With no need to consider how to monetize, that makes it easier to do some parts of an online interactive levels / solutions repository.

"4.0.0"! :)