Rocks'n'Diamonds

BTW yeah I blabble a lot, but... I think the implementation of what I tried to describe is pretty simple, not a big burden (possibly less code than the amount of blather written about it!); and better if done once at the outset, than trying to repair things later...

Even if Mac software has an installer (which it sometimes have, if it has a lot of things to do to set things up before running), this would result in the installer asking to access the "Documents" directory if it wants to check something there, so this does not help here. I don't agree: ...

... IF there is a separately distinguishable 'installation' step where your scripts get control, then I would say, check it then, even if that means an OS security prompt to the user. Such prompts are not at all surprising during an installation. Then obviously once you've checked, leave yourself a ...

Is it possible that installer scripts are specially privileged to check this sort of thing? (Do Mac apps even have installer scripts?!)

On the Mac data directory breaking change... yeah, that's ugly. The code to look for & migrate the old user data ought to just be there forever; but if that means a permissions prompt every time someone first installs it, it's not user friendly. I don't suppose Mac OS is smart enough to provide ...

BrownSky wrote: ↑Tue Oct 20, 2026 7:27 am Either that or the program's graphics config screen could be given a nice big button to generate the file from scratch :-)

You just need to run: on your system...

But the old style "--execute COMMAND" syntax will still work, too. Can you please retain the "--execute" doc in the help output? That will help future code archaeologists understand the meaning of such command embedded in old scripts. (Doing this kind of requires a tiny in-help ...

Holger wrote: ↑Sun Oct 18, 2026 11:30 pm For whatever reason, R'n'D on Windows does not print its output to the command line

Presumably this is a bug and will be fixed next release?

BTW did the DoS attack stop, so we no longer have to identify as 'guest/guest'?

Could server-side tapes have dual score metadata -- 'as recorded' and 'corrected'?

I'll vote for the 'rerun all the tapes' solution, ridiculous as it may be. Potential problem: now the server copies differ from the originals; what happens if/when one of the tape-creating players connects to the server? Will it push-notify them that their scores have been updated on the server, giv...

I can't think of where / why someone might want two actions bound to one key, but I think it would be a mistake to absolutely prevent it. But, preventing it in the config UI is probably OK. For whatever obscure purpose I'm not quite thinking of, one could edit the same-key bindings directly into set...

... and installing a game update should not mess up any of your stuff. But again there may be exceptions in some obscure corner of the overall space of [operating system, install method, old version, new version].

Also the exact behavior of single step mode varies between the various game engines used in RnD. This is discussed somewhat in that thread, and others around the forum. As a result, if you do have any issues you'll want to mention the exact release of RnD, the levelset name, and the specific level n...

There is definitely single-step player input mode. https://www.artsoft.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=17537 is one of many threads which touches on it. It gives recommendations for keyboard configuration, which may either be useful or -- I have a vague sense that the exact recommendations given may no lo...

I ran across this moderately old post of mine while searching for answers for another post, and -- Holger, did you ever address this in software, if not in reply here?