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#11
Chat - Misc / Re: Your Football Team
Last post by alanrotoi - November 23, 2025, 11:29:53 PM
Please add your favourite football team to the list!

AbuRaf70 - Atlético Rafaela
Akoss Poo - Kazincbarcika
Alan Rotoi - Racing Club
Alecu - CSM Politehnica Iași
Bonzai Joe - Aarhus GF
Chulk - Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata
CTG - Györi ETO FC
Duplode - São Paulo Futebol Clube Paulista
Erik Barros - Sport Club Corinthians
Mingva - FK Atlantas
Shoegazing Leo - Club Athletico Paranaense
Usrin - Szolnoki MÁV FC
#13
Stunts Related Programs / Re: SDL 3
Last post by Matei - November 23, 2025, 05:49:54 PM
https://disenchant.net/tyrquake/

Tyrquake works, but it uses "SDL_CreateRenderer()" instead of "SDL_GetWindowSurface()".

https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL2/SDL_CreateRenderer

https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/180077/in-sdl-what-is-the-difference-between-using-a-surfaces-and-a-renderer

However, unlike my game, tyrquake with SDL 2 had a very low framerate on this laptop with Fedora 14, although it worked well with X11:

https://www.miniputer.com/Acer/Aspire_3000.html

https://matei.one/gnxfed14.html
#14
Stunts Related Programs / Re: SDL 3
Last post by Matei - November 23, 2025, 05:03:16 PM
Quote from: Matei on November 21, 2025, 11:03:44 PMfullscr=0 - the controls didn't work,

Actually they did but the image doesn't update. Edited file graphics/graph2d.c, lines 276...:

#elif SDLVER==2
  if(RGLOB_initgr==0){printf("display(): Screen not initialized\r\n"); exit(1);}
  if(SDL_UpdateWindowSurface(RGLOB_window)<0){
    printf("%s",SDL_GetError());
    exit(1);
  }
#else

Error:

QuoteWindow surface is invalid, please call SDL_GetWindowSurface() to get a new surface

Which version of xMOn@D do you have? I have 0.18.0.
#15
Motor sports, Racing / Re: F1 2025
Last post by Duplode - November 23, 2025, 01:13:52 PM
Quote from: Duplode on October 21, 2025, 11:58:49 PMIt will be an impressive feat if McLaren manages to fumble the driver's title -- it's surely not beyond them!

"McLaren apologise to Norris, Piastri and fans for Las Vegas GP disqualification" 👀

#16
Chat - Misc / Re: Football Fanats 2025
Last post by alanrotoi - November 23, 2025, 11:42:02 AM
On the other side, you have stupidity in Conmebol too. There is a league of 10 countries fighting for... SEVEN PLACES!! (6+1). 70% of the countries may go to the WC :o

I mean, I'm happy there are more places in conmebol because there are good teams but 7 is too much. For the last world cup it was 4+1, now it should be just 5 without playoff (half of the list at max).

Then you have Oceania where there is the New Zealand's spot plus 1 playoff. We could delete oceania's and southamerican playoff spot and add a complete spot to europe where there are stronger teams waiting. I prefer this way in the WC Denmark or Hungary than Solomon Islands or New stallin Caledonie. 8)
#17
Competition 2025 / Re: 2025 State of Play: where ...
Last post by alanrotoi - November 23, 2025, 11:21:11 AM
I love these briefings!! Very interesting!! Thanks
#18
Competition 2025 / Re: 2025 State of Play: where ...
Last post by Clairwil - November 23, 2025, 04:36:56 AM
I don't know why, but I have a hunch this is a really good time to check on the battles that are still going on in the final round!

N.B.: Points reported as of the beginning of ZCT293.

2nd place

Räcer        Current        Discards        Available        Maximum       
MiDiaN        96 + 9.5 = 105.5        10        2 + 2 = 4        98 + 11.5 = 109.5       
Duplode        95 + 7.5 = 102.5        9        3 + 2 = 5        98 + 9.5 = 107.5       

A Duplode victory in ZCT293 would leave the gap between him and MiDiaN at either 2 or 1 point, depending on whether MiDiaN ends in second or not, plus any PTB changes in ZCT293. In such a scenario, Duplode would have the advantage in a tiebreaker (two race victories versus one). Still, he would have to bridge this remaining gap through PTB. Looking at the current PTB charts, this battle could be a done deal in a matter of hours...

5th place

Räcer        Current        Discards        Available        Maximum       
HerrNove        65 + 4.5 = 69.5        5        7 + 2 = 9        72 + 6.5 = 78.5       
Alan Rotoi        64 + 4 = 68        3        9 + 2 = 11        73 + 6 = 79       

While KyLiE, with 80.5 points at the end of ZCT292, has the fourth place guaranteed, the contest for fifth remains wide open. On the one hand, HerrNove has managed to shore up his challenge over the last couple of races; on the other hand, a gap of a single position could make his 1.5 point advantage over Alan vanish, as the Argentinian pipsqueak has two extra available points. It is also worth noting that should the two of them end up with the same amount of real points, Alan, with one win and two second places up to now, would win the tiebreaker. All that's needed for this battle to really light up is HerrNove to hit the track on ZCT293!

8th to 10th place

Räcer        Current        Discards        Available        Maximum       
Frieshansen        43 + 0.5 = 43.5        1        11 + 2 = 13        54 + 2.5 = 56.5       
Zapper        37 + 0.5 = 37.5        2        10 + 2 = 12        47 + 2.5 = 49.5       
Overdrijf        33.5        0.7        11.3 + 2 = 13.3        44.8 + 2 = 46.8       
Mark Nailwood        32        2        10 + 2 = 12        42 + 2 = 44       

All pipsqueaks in this block can still reach the 8th place, but it's a narrow path: Mark Nailwood needs a perfect 14-point race and no additional points for Frieshansen; as for Zapper and Overdrijf, assuming equal PTB on ZCT293 a win by either of them would still need Frieshansen to end no higher than 8th or 11th respectively. In any case, the gaps between 9th and 11th range are smaller than those to Frieshansen just above in 8th. In particular, again assuming equal PTB, a gap of three positions could suffice for Mark Nailwood to climb to 10th, or for Overdrijf to reach 9th. On a busy scoreboard, anything can happen!

Am League, 3rd place

Räcer        Current        Discards        Available        Maximum       
Cas        75        6        6        81       
Shoegazing Leo        75        6        6        81       

This is not a copy-paste error: the circumstances conspired to bring Cas and Leo to the last round perfectly tied, on a direct fight for the final Am podium spot!
#20
General Chat - ZSC / Re: Folyami ratings monthly up...
Last post by Duplode - November 22, 2025, 11:51:13 PM
It's time for the ZCT292 update of the rankings!

Before we get to the update proper, I should note the rankings have been revised to account for the scoreboard changes triggered by the replay cloning incident. You can gauge what changed by looking at the before and after of the ranking at ZCT291. The changes have revealed a few individual achievements from the past several races: Frieshansen reached the 2000 points milestone at ZCT285, Zapper got a personal best of 1855 points at ZCT287, and KyLiE had a joint personal best of 2076 points at ZCT291.

As for ZCT292, it saw HerrNove, KyLiE, MiDiaN and Spoonboy reaching personal best ratings, as well as stanceboyCZ joining the rankings. Below is the updated (and revised!) evolution graph:

rating-evolution-zct292.png