Rocks'n'Diamonds

It does seem clear that RnD already knows the elements 'by name', in order to support element-specific graphical tricks. So the ability to paste level excerpts in that sort of format seems like it wouldn't be super hard to do. And your reasons for wanting it seem sound...

I found an example. I clicked on my own name, then 'Search user's posts', and searched for 'paste'. That led to this post: https://www.artsoft.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16852&hilit=paste#p16852 -- which has an example. You can see what the code looks like by using the forum's 'Reply with quote' ...

There is already some sort way of representing level elements in text, which can be used in some manner to copy-paste level snippets into the forum here, and they get displayed as the correct elements. I have used it once or twice when I discovered it and it was fresh in my memory; now the existence...

This all sounds like good fun :)

For text-paste, I guess it should truncate large pastes (maybe 100 chars? And maybe with that limit tunable...) I've copy-pasted 1MB+ texts on my Linux desktop, would not really like to see what that would do in RnD level editor...

Given the commit you pointed to, your previous comment of: Looking at commit 07e47c9c, there's only one single directory that is created with world-writable permissions, and that's the scores directory: was actually wildly off the mark! So I am amused and mildly surprised. Other than that, all is we...

Hmmm, we will probably end up having to 'agree to disagree' on this. I say, an app should *not* create and then use world-modifiable directories in one's home directory. You say 'the system was already screwed up', but -- if you look at any real-world computer security breach, it is made up of a cha...

Argh, I didn't actually state the point of the security issue. It is not a security issue against the *system* one is running on, but against the *person* running RnD. It doesn't let an attacker attack system files, only the files of the person playing the game. Still, we don't want to play a game a...

The original CVE includes links to other things including https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=651620 -- which, if the facts it claims are correct, was talking about a real and actual security concern. It says that RnD, back then (and as built and packaged in Debian) created the user's ...

I'm a bit torn. I think, being able to see what score you would have gotten without the pesky time limit is totally legit, and I'm imagining the dismay of, say, a 5 year old who was previously racking up a nice collection of scores, who now finds that their runs are all invalidated. As to issues of ...

This description is, um, pretty fuzzy...? You say 'this level', but do not mention a level. Were you talking about some specific level / levelset where you've observed this? I also wonder about the nature of the bad playback. Typical RnD bugs with playback look sort of like: the playback starts out ...

Is showing multiple users with the same name that bad that the high score list needs to be shortened?

I imagine it means most leader boards are chock full of 'anonymous' over and over :)

Idea: Instead of these modes, do something like the "time limit" mode but instead of death of level playing at the end, how about a pop-up message saying something like "times up" asking if the player if they would like to 'continue level?', or 'restart level?', or if there is a...

Regarding the solution to multiple scores with the same name: It seems like there must be lots of cases where local usernames have been used and are duplicate, but aren't the same person; i.e. local username 'John' or whatever. So this solution will brush together a certain number of scores which ac...

There are more resources available on the web on this topic (for even the most exotic operating systems) But that's kind of the problem. There are so many resources, and they all disagree with each other, and many of them are old and cover environments which no longer exist or are deprecated, or do...

PM on this forum system should work for patches which aren't huge. Or a post with attachment (I checked, looks like PM doesn't take attachments). Or, perhaps, a fork-and-pull-request on the github repository?