Rocks'n'Diamonds

I installed/extracted RnD in this order to the same folder: v3.1.2 v3.2.0rc6 v3.2.0rc7 v3.2.0rc8 Now I have this problem: When I start RnD or switch applications (set focus) from RnD and back, my whole system (WinXP SP2) freezes each time for about 5 seconds like 100% cpuload, then everything (and R...

I think the uploaded levels are still the old version. The bugs are still there ...

What about quicksand? It will let rocks fall through but no emeralds/diamonds ...

Hello catlady & kids! Thank you for your funny levels! Not very difficult, but tricky enough to die here and there ... :oops: I hope these ones aren't the last you share with us ... I have to agree with Francesco, you had some really nice ideas. :idea: Seems you like colors, penguins and questio...

Hi Holger!

Any news about 3.2.0rc8? Can't wait for it ...

Oh no! :cry: That sounds really bad ... Maybe you should think about a professional recovery service, like http://www.ontrack.de . So many bad blocks seems not to be a surface problem, but a mechanical or a head problem. Then the chances are good, that they can recover nearly all data without errors...

Well, it doesn’t look too bad to me, as long as I stick with classic R&D graphics. It does not look bad , it's just hard to find out, that you can walk through, because the standard spring is not passable. So I would prefer something like a door, a tube, a port or your custom element "walk...

Hi Daniel & Nathan! Thanks for the three levels! I'm curious about the whole levelsets ... :) Some comments: I definitely don't like CEs, that use the graphics of some standard elements, but have a completely different and unexpected behaviour. For example: "CEs in outer space": - the ...

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Don't take the first emerald, run under it and push the rock 2 times left, then 2 steps up, then run under the other 2 emeralds to the left, snap down, snap right, take the emerald above you ... the blue key and the third emerald, done!

Little bug in local multiplayer scrolling:

If you set view mode to player 1 (F5) and move simultaneously with player 1 to the left and player 2 to the right, the screen won't scroll with player 1.

About the strange crashes: It crashes only with EM engine levels, RnD engine levels work well in 3.2.0rc7 in network mode. About the scrolling: Delayed scrolling was enabled. I tried to repeat the strange behaviour in local multiplayer mode, but I failed. It seems to work well there. One discovery: ...

With 3.2.0rc7 we only used the test sets, Emerald Mine and E.M.C. Mine 3, GFX and NO GFX -> Emerald Mine Engine. Good luck for bug hunting! :twisted: You could also have a short look at the "view all players" mode, I think the screen position isn't correct, especially when a player moves ...

Network mode doesn't work. :cry: When I start RnD with -network, it crashes, when I create a game. Update: Forget about it, it was just some kind of stupid strange shortcut-ip-lan-firewall-misconfiguration, my fault! :oops: Network mode really works smooth, and even the tape recorder can cope with t...

Good job! Can't wait for final 3.2.0 and all the converted level sets ... keep on going, Holger! :D 1. I had some trouble to start it. I extracted 3.1.2, 3.2.0rc0, rc1, rc2, rc3, rc4, rc5, rc6 and rc7 in this sequence to the same folder. Then I got the stderr.txt: rocksndiamonds.exe: warning: cannot...

Uuuh, indeed I didn't know about F1 and F2.
That makes everything much easier and saves a lot of time and now I understand how Francesco could make so smooth tapes of his Rockfighter levels ...
Thank you very much
But isn't it some kind of cheating?