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Competition 2025 / Re: Cloned replays, ZCT285 to ...

Last post by Duplode - Today at 01:39:17 AM

This is really not cool, but from what I can tell, the rules page only talks about this under the Team section, where it says you can't use teammates' replays.

"You must drive your own replays" is such a self-evident principle that we do expect people to follow it even in the absence of an explicit bullet point in the rules -- though it probably wouldn't hurt to add another nod to it besides the one currently in the teams section.

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Competition 2025 / Re: Cloned replays, ZCT285 to ...

Last post by MiDiaN - Today at 12:40:54 AM

This is really not cool, but from what I can tell, the rules page only talks about this under the Team section, where it says you can't use teammates' replays.

Good idea Cas! It might be hard to detect automatically with good accuracy but it's still better than nothing.

#3

Chat - Misc / Re: Association game

Last post by Erik Barros - Today at 12:15:41 AM

mrs. peacock

#4

Stunts Related Programs / Re: SDL 3

Last post by Matei - Yesterday at 11:48:35 PM

but if so, why just from the width and not the height?

This is why:

printf("Set %dx%dx%d\n",8*RGLOB_screen->pitch/BITSPERPIXEL,height,BITSPERPIXEL);

File graphics/forsdl3/graph2d.c, line 153. The height reported is just the value sent to the function, not the resulting height of the window, which was obviously also reduced, but as mentioned above, I don't know how to find it.

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Stunts Reverse Engineering / Re: Restunts repository - Git ...

Last post by Matei - Yesterday at 11:40:20 PM

It may seem so because we now see everyday programs taking up hundreds or megabytes or gigabytes,

Try my game:

https://matei.one/idxscr.html#download

Besides, if you only need to load a PNG file and then save it, you depend on code that can also process compressed audio, for example. It's like carrying the computer with your program.

Not with my functions, which draw graphics and save BMP files only with the standard C library. I didn't need to read BMP files until now though, but I could do that.

Which brings me to this. If you send somebody a letter in a random language

That's the C language, it's not random, and "somebody" is the hardware to which you send it, which also has who knows what drivers and other programs on it.

and you accompany it with a guy who speaks a hundred languages including it,

That's SDL and it will translate your letter to anyone to whom you sent it. The idea is that you don't know who you send it to, but SDL will translate it to anyone. No DOS though.

https://matei.one/idxchess.html

but the version for DOS/DOSBox, which is available below, uses some graphical functions available with Open Watcom, as SDL has no support for DOS.

But SDL not only does this, it also doesn't even provide the translator guy:

As mentioned, SDL is the translator.

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Stunts Related Programs / Re: SDL 3

Last post by Duplode - Yesterday at 11:35:14 PM

Good catch; I wonder if my environment is somehow interfering with the window size (will try to find out later).

Yes, it is my environment. I normally use XMonad (a tiling window manager) on this computer; switching to a Xfce session I get no segfaults, and the expected 800x600 size is reported. Maybe the two pixels taken by the window borders are somehow being deduced from the available window size (but if so, why just from the width and not the height?). It's mostly academical now, but if I find a workaround for XMonad (and I guess there must be one) I'll post it here.

#7

Chat - Misc / Re: Association game

Last post by CTG - Yesterday at 11:22:30 PM

mustard

#8

Competition 2025 / Re: Semi-Retirement Announceme...

Last post by CTG - Yesterday at 11:21:23 PM

How could I miss this one?

Have fun in private life, Helmuth!

#9

Stunts Related Programs / Re: SDL 3

Last post by Matei - Yesterday at 11:16:12 PM

You can also try with various resolutions (file "config") and see what happens. Is the resolution set in "config" ever reported properly?

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Chat - Misc / Re: Association game

Last post by Cas - Yesterday at 11:14:34 PM

Sausage