Rocks'n'Diamonds

Seriously, read those posts I pointed to.

Regarding tape usage, Bryan might find these posts useful both for helpful config, and usage notes: config recommendation: tape player buttons & actions (note: the actual macro sequences are obsolete) Tape synchronization problem (look for 'When I am solving a level' for application note...) [4....

Ah, if I'd looked inside the pla/* vs. his/* files I probably would have figured out they were 'high scores' :) Um. I don't have that media handy right now: are his/* filled with anything interesting? In particular, does his/54 imply that they were able to solve it with their engine? No tapes/*, are...

A1000 was my 1st and last Amiga (eventually with a 120MB Seagate HD and 2MB 'RAMBO-ard' external memory!) After that I was working at SCO and had a series of x86 Xenix and Unix systems. Now mostly Ubuntu (kids have Chromebooks, couple of Macs, and some of the Ubuntu is actually Mint fwiw). Open the ...

I've never used UAE before so I have no such thing as 'my existing .uaerc'. The docs were not super helpful on getting started.

I had an A1000 the 1st or 2nd day of availability, and used it for years, then moved on; this was my 1st time ever using Amiga emulation.

See https://www.artsoft.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2163 for suggested keys for the tapes; but note that some of the longer action strings are no longer correct, due to the change you noticed. In fact, let's see if I can revise them here (from memory, at work : ) '0:ist' Load "solution ta...

Well, now I've spent half an hour astonishing myself at how horribly bad fs-uae is... When I first downloaded it (from ubuntu repo), I just ran it. It got into a weird state and trashed the fonts on mate-terminal as well as the whole window manager; which I haven't yet gotten out of. Had to ssh in f...

I haven't had an Amiga for a couple of decades, and have never fired up an emulator for it... so yeah, could probably try that, but many steps to get there.

levels/Emerald Mine Club/emc_emc_mine_1/54 seems impossible -- you're given many dynamites, but the holes they make in the growing walls heal just as fast as you can move -- it's impossible to make a hole you can actually traverse. Is this a difference in the RnD EMC engine vs. original EMC? emc_emc...

Make a Windows XP VM (under any of the dozen or so virtualization environments available these days). The old binary should run on it. Strongly recommend you pre-configure the virtual hardware to have NO sort of networking, before ever booting XP in a VM. Transfer data to/from the VM with some safer...

I guess I mean both putting it in nice final format; and grabbing it and putting it up for raw download as soon as you see it mentioned (with all appropriate source pointers etc.); as a hedge against future Internet Rot.

Of course I really mean 'grabbing it raw then eventually making it nice'...

How do you feel about deliberately mirroring such externally referenced materials (i.e.: levelsets & associated artwork) ?

I did eventually find copies of 11 of the lost files in various FreeBSD archives (the one I actually downloaded from was http://ftp.stu.edu.tw/FreeBSD/distfiles/rocksndiamonds, and crosschecked sha256sums against some other BSD site whose details I failed to note): Files/RnD/Levels/42_Steps.zip File...

So, is there a 'new user's posts are invisible until vetted by an admin, until admin unsets that flag' flag in phpBB?

And a 'limit to 2 unvetted posts per user' setting?

Hmmm. At the moment that I checked, http://www.bd-fans.com/RnD.html was offline, so I found it on archive.org. Then I tried to download from archive.org all 222 files linked from the main page; and successfully acquired 188 of them. Only then did one of my attempts to reach the original site succeed...