Rocks'n'Diamonds

I suggest you bust those out into a directory which responds to links in exactly the same format as they were on zomis.net, then there will be a simple 1:1 conceptual redirect from where they used to live to their new home...

> I wonder from where you got those files

Hmmm, I suspect it was www.artsoft.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=17794 :)

Holger, yes, those are the exact form I have them in :)

I have those zomis.net artifacts (and many others), saved from somewhere , I'm not sure where, in mid-2022. Actually I think I got them from a session of manual ad hoc scraping from web.archive.org, but have only vague memories and circumstantial evidence to support this :) Holger, I think I've ment...

I note with (friendly) amusement that this announcement is much less bold than the pre-release-4 announcement was, about whether it is the final release. :)

These are awesome beta-testers; being held back from releasing a busted release is a really good thing!

Ok, that behavior is a bit confusing to the alert user :) They look in Hall Of Fame, see those things unpopulated ... look back a little while later, and suddenly it's there! Weird! This could be papered over, as follows: - the local code already knows the platform & game version, as they're enc...

I think I had confused myself. Plus there is this: Level 70 is less complicated, I just played it under 4.3.8.2. So there is a single clean upload of one save file -- which doesn't show version info. I am now not able to reproduce this; my one play of level 70 does show version/etc in the hall of fa...

add your extended "magic" file to the R'n'D package And/or figure out how to submit it to the maintainers of the `file` command... Regarding your excellent explanation of the results I got: if it uploads all my tapes, and downloads all the best scores from the server, it should be able to...

I don't think I've ever configured a custom art (or music etc.) set. Just whatever the levelset comes with or refers to. But you're on RnD levels, I'm on EMC -- those have different base layouts.

(nevermind, I did update it in 2022, viewtopic.php?t=588)

file(1) output is from magic entries I made, but I'm pretty sure have sent to Holger in the past. Except I see my copy has changelog entries from only 2y ago, and I'm pretty sure I haven't updated that. So, attached here.

I played a couple of levels just now, and the hall of fame entries for them have 'UNKNOWN' for the PLATFORM, VERSION, COUNTRY fields. I always play with own-built binaries, out of `git`, not necessarily at any specific version number. 3 builds may be relevant here. Looking in ~/.rocksndiamonds/tapes...

These were saved with the QUICK SAVE method after them. Is there a LONG SAVE method? I think there are two different SAVE methods. I have my keyboard setup so that the keys 0-5 map to the tape buttons. According to setup > key shortcuts > tape buttons: 0 Eject tape 1 Warp / single step 2 Stop tape ...

This is an issue that Holger has been slowly chasing for years. I wonder if you would be able to perform your series of steps, saving tapes at multiple places along the way (and then moving / copying them out of the way so the next one doesn't overwrite it) -- then provide a set of those tapes + nar...

RnD uses the SDL libraries for its graphics; this sounds like an SDL bug / interaction with your KDE based desktop. So -- I'd be curious to see if other SDL-based games cause the same issue. ... so I went exploring and decided I don't really know The Right Way to ask a .deb based system 'which packa...