Oh yeah, happy anniversary to R'n'D! I did plan to make something quick and neat for the anniversary, like, month or two ago, but unfortunately I'm just not exactly in the position right now, so yeah, I'm really sorry.
One more thing I'll say that the way I was introduced into the game is back in, like, 2008 I was gifted a shareware disc with a lot of different clones of Boulder Dash and Digger, Snake clones, Pacman clones, etc., and R'n'D 2.0.1 was amongst them. Few years later as we finally got access to more or less stable internet connection I tried to google game's title and found this site, although not in exactly best state as while the site itself was fine and I could actually download much newer version of R'n'D (3.3.0.1 at that time), the forum just wasn't accessible to me. A year or two passed after that and out of curiosity I tried to access the forum again, low and behold, it worked this time. And... yeah, I almost immediately started posting my stuff here, which, to be honest, was kind of 'meh', especially considering how much resources I was basically stealing from either other levelsets and some outside sources, but that's what you call a proper improvement over time.
Anyways, yeah, this game (and actually few others, but that's another story) has taken me to a wild ride of creativity, and it's limitations, despite how weird that may sound, is one of the catalysts of that creativity, because if you're smart enough, you can find interesting ways to either surpass these limitations or at least create an illusion of that breakthrough.
In other words, thank you Holger for keeping this game (along with Mirror Magic, kinda) alive for so much time! It's fascinating how one game (two, kinda) can be supported for so long, especially while nowadays lots of games stop getting supported without even it living for 10 years.
bug on the 25th anniversary post: where it says "the Git repository of Rocks’n’Diamonds has a special branch to compile the historic version with modern compilers and systems." it links to https://git.artsoft.org/?p=rocksndiamon ... compilable , but that gives me a 403 Forbidden error
ncrecc wrote: ↑Fri Oct 24, 2025 1:51 pm
bug on the 25th anniversary post: where it says "the Git repository of Rocks’n’Diamonds has a special branch to compile the historic version with modern compilers and systems." it links to https://git.artsoft.org/?p=rocksndiamon ... compilable , but that gives me a 403 Forbidden error
Sorry, works again.
Blocked a bit too much in a desperate attempt to protect my web site against AI crawlers (which are totally braindead and try to fetch the same resources again and again).
