Rocks'n'Diamonds

OK! $ git pull; make clean-git; make run RO_GAME_DIR=/usr/share/games/rocksndiamonds RW_GAME_DIR=/var/games/rocksndiamonds ... RnD pops up! With visible mouse cursor (when I move it) in the splash screen! Hi, I'm revealing a woeful lack of understanding by asking this, but I will go ahead: Is there...

Yes, you made a very good point. The setting descriptors I thought of are not at all user-friendly. Your ideas are much better. My bad, as obscure and hard-to-understand descriptors for settings are a real bugbear to me - not referring to R'n'D specifically; applies to all apps, OS, BIOS etc. It wou...

Thanks for the response Filbo. Some more things I thought of that seem necessary for the wannabe contributor: - ability to compile on own platform -- in my case, I've never been able to make this come true (on Windows). I did it on Linux with a single word, but I have other/different problems with L...

I went to the Github repository, https://git.artsoft.org/?p=rocksndiamonds.git;a=summary and paged back through the shortlog; I got as far as: https://git.artsoft.org/?p=rocksndiamonds.git;a=shortlog;pg=29 which is about April 2018. Every commit as far as I could see, was by Holger. Can anyone expla...

Yes. There could be a pair of modes that could be toggled between, 'Only use numerically-named levels' and 'Use alphanumeric as well as numerically-named levels' So for a levelset like this 001.level 001.20250803.level 001.alternative ending.level 001.bad.level 001.Tues.level 002.level, mode 'Only u...

I probably shouldn't hijack this post, but I too have been thinking about amendments/extensions to the BDX engine, and one thing which really stands out to me is, if elements from other engines - RND, MM - that are placed into a level set to the BDX engine, could be parsed by the BDX engine during g...

Hi Holger, thank you again for such a great app, Rocks'n'Diamonds, which has gone far behind any other program inspired by Boulderdash. The reason being I think its great flexibility and scope for extending it. I apologize for peppering you with so many requests/new ideas, I guess I just feel that s...

I think this would still allow levelsets of numerically named levels to work as normal, as the numeric ordering is also alphabetical, in a sense. There's more than one way to sort... uppercase first the lowercase then numbers... ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789 Numbers...

Also a feature to skip to the next existing level would be really cool, Are you perhaps asking about adding this feature? MAIN MENU > SETUP > GAME & MENU > ALLOW SKIPPING LEVELS: "YES/ASK/NO" Hi Bryan, No I don't mean that feature, I mean a new way of jumping between levels, it would ...

Hi, am bumping this idea. It would allow RnD to process levels in an alphabetical order, so that the designer would have more flexibility in handling their levels, giving them descriptive filenames, etc. eg apple.level banana.level banana20250718.level zebra.level etc. This would open a can of worms...

Hi SlappyHappy2000,

Thanks for this - will give it a try.

Your post scored immediate 'value' points for the tip on how to toggle between team and single player mode - I'd been doing it the old-fashioned (hard) way...

John

Hi, noob question here: is any of this discussion relevant to trying to compile on Windows? I mean, I think that there are Git clients for Windows, so it should be...? Is the requirement to install Perl only for Git, as opposed to for RnD? I assume so as ?I have managed to compile RnD on Debian with...

anyone got a copy of the implementation of XOR on RnD mentioned in this discussion I could grab?

The source website is down (and archive.org can't help).

Thanks heaps.

John

Hi, apologies for dredging up old posts from the early noughties. This discussion looks excellent, there is a lot to learn here. One problem - all of the links are to zomis.net, and so they do not work. Is there anyone who downloaded any of the files at the time, and still have them, and could re-up...

Hi Zomis

Do you still have this, or any of the other things that used to be hosted on your website? I get the idea that there was some kind of data loss event in the past, so apologies if I'm bringing up painful memories

John