Rocks'n'Diamonds

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...?!?)

Unlike the other recently discussed puzzle (https://www.artsoft.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2572) -- these three are presented as images, not backtick-inlined RnD elements. @TheOnyxGuy, do you have them as saved RnD level files? Could you upload in either that form, or the backtick inlined format? Oth...

Not to create Extra Work For Holger or anything, but ... I see the value of the which-engine-did-it-come-from editor layout; especially when you might eventually intend to export the resulting level to some other game milieu where it mattered, OR set its RnD metadata to indicate running it under a d...

Holger has improved this in the most recent release (I haven't tried any relevant actions with it). But, in any case -- my previous response was trying to figure out the tech reasons behind what you were seeing, and proposing to Holger to fix them. And my reading of the new-release release notes sug...