Boulder Dash Forum

[back from holidays!] about 'there is a twist - unlike BD-engine, BR3D is not limiting you to use max 4 random elements subset' - BR3D doesn't use random fill objects [well, supports them as read-only for playing, but its editor is not objects-based]. when defining the base BD random fill layer, whe...

everything is all right. let me elaborate on that a bit... see, previous versions of BR3D were not supporting BDCFF and the logic was implemented in its own way - as a result, the game was not 100% compatible with the original BD. there are some tricks and hacks involved in the original engines that...

concerning problems with RockFort_1-_The_Long_Way.bd - as i've mentioned, the cave set is marked as import dirty - which means that there are some not supported features used and the game might not play correctly - all these are listed in the error log. for that particular set there are not all the ...

i've tried caves\Dustin\RockFort_1-_The_Long_Way.bd from GDash - as expected, my CaveSetIO.error.log is full of unsupported features [eg. attribute Story, cave object RandomFillC64, etc.]. however, it loads and is set to import dirty. when it crashes on you, does it leave any info in the error log f...

selecting cave sets is made to fit into the overall title screen 'feeling' - like in the original game - selecting the options just by tilting the joystick... unfortunately it won't work nicely for 100+ sets - true ;] for the best feeling BR3D should be played full-screen [except for the editor of c...

i wasn't sure if i should create a new thread so i just continue that one. hopefully it will be noticed ;] finally there is a new version of BR3D available - please visit http://gad.art.pl/opis.php?i=365 - and try it yourself. there are a few significant changes since the last version: - game logic ...

i've seen a long thread about gdash, improving accuracy, many people testing their sets, and so on. there is this famous BD1/Intermission3 cave which is not playable on PAL settings [tested on vice c64 emu], yet still pretty playable in gdash. the player is spawned just few game scans too early [com...

i've been searching in the previous threads, but sadly i haven't found what i'm looking for... PAL vs NTSC - i know the theory but how did it work in BD games? if PAL games are supposed to run slower because 1sec lasts 1.2sec, why is there a difference in one of the BD intermissions that makes it im...

hi, i'm still struggling with the predictable slime [whenever i have few spare minutes ;]. i've double checked my code against gdash code, i've checked everything that cirix had mentioned before. i can say i'm using pretty much the same approach. i've noticed that the lower the permeability value, t...

sure i know about first/last row being skipped, righto. however, my ramdom number generator seems ok - as i've mentioned, it generates cave random elements layout perfectly - that would be already wrong if the sequence was not right. simple, yet enough for testing, this is my test-cave: [BDCFF] Vers...

slime, my nemesis, comes back... my predictable random number generator works fine, it generates the proper cave random layout and i'm not reseting it afterwards [also, i'm setting the proper seed value for map-based caves]. then the slime takes over and... for some strange reason, with some predict...

yeah. i'm pretty much familiar with the c64 predictable random and how it's being used for the slime. 00 1E as a begin seed - that's new for me. good to know, again. recently i read gdash code once in a while, it's like a good book to me - i must have skipped that part... i've been just wondering ho...

good to know. considering cave sets 'shipped' with gdash, were they also edited by hand by their authors? like for instance arno sets which are having float slime permeability [files downloadable from arno web pages] but when saved as bdcff from gdash, they have a proper integer value. i've been com...

BD random fill elements are specified in a small array size of 4. in bdcff, these are represented for instance like that: RandomFill=SPACE 60 BOULDER 50 DIAMOND 9 [BD1, Cave A] in most cases, probabilities are specified from the biggest one to the lowest one. considering algorithm used in gdash, it ...

i'm sure you're familiar with many .bd cavesets downloadable from the web site. these .bd files, have a header-comment saying 'Converted using Tim Stridmann's X2BDCFF converter.' given that, i presume the source of the cave set was legit and these should be valid cave sets. if we then have a look at...