Rocks'n'Diamonds

It's a long time since I played with this, and I never actually played networked, just 'multi-player' with me at the keyboard operating P1 and occasionally lurching P2 to some new useful location... Anyway, I vaguely remember that it might have been smart enough to only manifest as many players as w...

> a different, separate high score list for single-player and multi-player scores (which should probably be used for any multi-player game, regardless of two, three or four players being involved) I recommend that if you do this work, you go all the way to having separate high score lists for each [...

I'm sure the files are there somewhere, and the Mac 'finder' etc. are just being stupidly 'helpful'.

Holger is on vacation and might be slow to reply :) It is simple: some years ago, all of the PCX graphics files were replaced with PNG. They mostly have the same names, whatever.pcx => whatever.png. I think he did this because PNG is generally a better format, and more widely supported by modern too...

My oldest child heard some music the other day which reminded them of Rocks'n'Diamonds, so they set out to install it on their Debian 'sid' laptop. They downloaded the Linux install from artsoft.org, but didn't understand how to finish the job, and I interrupted and said let's see what's in the repo...

It's still out there -- if you're paranoid about that you should remove the old versions with the (what, EMC Sex Mine or some such??) -- or 'clean' them. But I can't imagine there's anything that's worse than 30 seconds of random browsing on twitter or any of the other 'social media' services...

> Not on the downloads page (for some reasons), but you posted it only two posts before ... may I suggest that the main downloads page include a described link to that? e.g., below 'The following outdated versions are still available for older systems:', another section could say 'An archive of all ...

I haven't re-tested just now, but I believe myself from a year ago, when I said that those levels (i.e. the ones from levelsets i ii iii, which exist in Holger's archive) ran successfully. Just to be absolutely clear: you are testing those levels with the tapes included in Holger's archive? Or are t...

> I have deactivated your account now. It will be activated again after one week. Huzzah! But -- does this software not have a way to squelch a user (leave their acct active but take away their permission to post, comment, send private messages)? If he can't login at all for a week, he can't read th...

Holger wrote: Unfortunately, only one single tape can be saved for each level, so you have to decide if you want to keep an existing tape or save the current one. [...] manually copy it to your personal "tapes" folder [...] like "tapes/emc_amiga_mine_1/003.tape" Notice that these...

I think you could probably have a single(*) on-disk cache file for the entire discovery process, instead of looking for and opening hundreds-to-thousands of directories and files. Only run the full discovery process when needed. (*) Or a few, however many is reasonable... When needed? Well, the game...

> please check out the complete annoucement in the Boulder Dash Forum

This could be a link, maybe? I have no idea where this is supposed to be!

Agree with Eizzoux, in that the originals look like real 3.5" floppy disks with labels; the proposed replacements look wrong. The white area is for writing in; labels with solid yellow or especially red would be less useful, so they were never seen. I also think colors, whether solid or the ori...

I will be unhappy with this if useful discussion happens there and is not copied here, as I am not going to add Yet Another online forum to my rounds. What if you raise whatever discussion you think you were going to raise there, here, and see how it goes, first? This is only slightly less realtime ...

It would be a lot less confusing to make these into a single user interface setting with >2 values (doesn't matter whether these are then internally translated into the current 2 settings or not): Skipping levels [menu]: - no, solve in order - ask before skipping - skip around freely ... or whatever...