Rocks'n'Diamonds

Raised https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... ug=1130332

(Plus, in keeping with the general chaos surrounding rnd_jue, I found https://www.artsoft.org/rnd_jue/ which is a wacky empty template for some nebulous future, or ... something?)

I'm actually working on submitting a Debian bug, and -- unfortunately, even the latest known URL -- https://jb-line.de/rnd/rnd_jue-v8.zip -- is now 404 :( It can be reached at (a Wayback Machine URL embedding the older link): https://web.archive.org/web/20230702180255/http://www.jb-line.de/hp/rnd_ju...

I see Holger has already analyzed and is preparing to fix this! But I had already written this so I guess I will send it in anyway :) Your account's Rocks'n' Diamonds directory is missing several subdirectories: it should have, in addition to 'cache' and 'levels', also 'levelsetup', 'scores', and 't...

Nicccce :)

Is it possible for you to chop off this discussion, from 3rd post (" It's currently not that ideal "), into a new separate post with subject line 'metadata for download packages' ?

The Debian install script I'm hoping to replace has embedded md5 checksums. Please include sums in your csv: any common hash would probably be acceptable, but the modern 'standard' for not extremely high security purposes seems to be sha256, so I recommend that. It also includes one other metadatum ...

Yeah, I get the ambivalence about versioned vs versionless filenames... While having the "disadvantage" that the curation would have to be done by me. ;-) Seems like you are already doing such curation, for the maintenance of the human-readable Levels & Artwork page. Maybe you could ad...

Yikes, it [that is, Windows (and/or Mac)] actually gaslights the user with a fake translated pathname? And then users type that into other bits of software and ... what, the OS back-translates the localized pathname to the underlying English version? And gets conjugation and stuff like that right? e...

RnD creates Windows 'folder' (directory) ...\Documents\ ??what?? -- RnD? Rocksndiamonds? I am thinking that if Roger were to pre-create the target directory, maybe RnD would work. So that's both a troubleshooting suggestion & a possible workaround. (But then, I look in 4.4.0.5 source that I have...

A few questions about those Krissz-on-RnD packages (you may already have answered or explained some of this, this does not mean the answers stuck to my Swiss cheese^W^Wbrain...) I know that you did not actually create the levels (you might possibly have created a few, as ones of the many members of ...

Doesn't sound entirely stupid :)

... just sounds like it needs to be saved with the right RnD level-file metadata to say 'this shall use RnD engine'!

... and they should be just a short hop away from 'ready', given that @ncrecc posted backtick-formatted level images. If they're correct! ;)

Achieving saved-tape compatibility with a different engine is actually a major achievement. You are too modest. I can't disagree with you here. A major version number update would indeed not have been inappropriate. ;-) ... and I say that with quite some advisement. Externally it looks like it shou...

I can't speak to Holger's reasoning, but: There's a lot of activity in 'retro' computing these days. This often means melding together ancient things + current ones. For instance, I semi-follow an Apple II retro group on Facebook -- people are constantly refurbishing ancient Apple II systems, really...

(or maybe that software recently used to mine out the Kriszz levels could be applied...?!?)