Rocks'n'Diamonds

I made a tarball of all the tapes (solved & not-solved). It's ~8MB compressed.

Would like to upload it to you *not* for public view -- not until we've spent a little effort on un-breaking old broken tapes. Is there a way I can do that through this forum thingy?

Hmmm, wow, I don't think so ... will have to investigate tonight. My directory structure was initially out of Ubuntu (Debian) packages of RnD 3.x (possibly 2.x), including their install script which, after installing the binaries, would ask whether you wanted to download stuff that didn't meet their...

For the 'continued game operation after level solved', ... There are two time displays visible. I don't know the right terminology. One is the _counter_, let's say, which (in most levels) counts down how much time you have left, but in levels with no limit, counts up how much time you have consumed....

>> Play with specified display parameters, until death; then display 'replaying to before death' >> (with better wording :) and silent-warp from beginning to (now known) time N seconds before death. > Hmmm, not sure if I got that?! Could you please describe it again with other words? :-| Yeah, it wa...

>> So, it seems that I have a total of 13776 tapes in my collection, of which 12112 are 'solved' by 4.0.1.1, and >> 12031 by 4.0.1.3; the remainder are not solved. About 1200 of the not-solved levels are in directories with >> 'emc' in their names. I suspect a large fraction of these might be suscep...

>> $ bin/20180204-sdl1/rocksndiamonds --mytapes -e "autotest emc_eagle_mine_07" >> >> results in an immediate seg fault! : ( > Ouch! This should never happen! (Ahh, we're on-topic again! ;-) ) Hmmm, probably not. My top-level build script builds both SDL1 and SDL2 binaries, ever since you ...

Yeah, I can do that. Don't really like to change it from what a future download would produce, since that leads to future bugs / duplications / misbehaviors... AFAICR, the directory named 'Legend Of Zelda' came directly out of files downloaded from artsoft.org. It is, in fact, a frequent annoyance t...

No permutation which I have tried has worked for:

$ rocksndiamonds --mytapes --execute "autotest Legend Of Zelda"
rocksndiamonds: fatal error: no such level identifier: 'Legend'
rocksndiamonds: aborting

Ok, so maybe something like: $ rocksndiamonds --mytapes --trytape amoeba32 --execute "autotest LEVELDIR" -- test all the tapes in LEVELDIR, with the amoeba32 flag forced, and report results (DO NOT actually edit the tapes) $ rocksndiamonds --mytapes --fixtape amoeba32 --execute "autot...

Heh. Even though my post is an hour after your PS post, somehow I hadn't seen that one and basically proposed exactly what you'd already said! So, it seems that I have a total of 13776 tapes in my collection, of which 12112 are 'solved' by 4.0.1.1, and 12031 by 4.0.1.3; the remainder are not solved....

You seem to be saying that those broken tapes would be OK if a single-bit decision were taken the other way: if RnD recognized that some previous 'long' field was 64-bit rather than the 32-bits it believes. Is there an unused header field somewhere in those tapes? Could you provide a simple standalo...

Regarding the 'go invisible' part: Are you saying that your character no longer displays on screen, but otherwise plays normally (will be killed by the usual things, etc.)? Or are you invisible and invulnerable? For RnD implementation, is it really necessary for that part to be emulated, or can it j...

I've sent Holger annoy-o-grams several times about implementing side-wraparound in the EMC engine. :) From what you describe, levels should also be configurable whether they wrap to the same vertical position or +/-1 in linear-wraparound fashion. I'd want the RnD save format for the levels (and tape...

How about:

Play with specified display parameters, until death; then display 'replaying to before death' (with better wording :) and silent-warp from beginning to (now known) time N seconds before death.

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Ok, 80 of 81 solved, with the failure expected since I didn't actually solve the level. See attached tarball: 81 tapes, autoplay report from 4.0.1.3 (46 solved, 34 failed unexpectedly, 1 failed since tape is not a solution). BTW, please add to allowed upload extensions: .tbz .tgz .txz .xz (didn't ch...