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#41

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

Last post by dreadnaut - November 21, 2025, 12:43:12 PM

I was under the impression that this kind of thing was checked automatically, but perhaps that only applies to replays that are cloned in their entirety.

There is a check for identical replays, but it's meant to avoid resubmission more than sending someone else's replay. There are definitely technical ways to check for extreme similarity, and we'll look into those next.

#42

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

Last post by Matei - November 21, 2025, 09:03:25 AM

"You must drive your own replays" is such a self-evident principle.

It's not self-evident. This is how free software works: you take somebody else's work and add your own contribution. Actually in free software people don't present other people's work like their own, but they do it in commercial software:

https://matei.one/opdos.html

The system was initially called QDOS, from "Quick and Dirty Operating System" and was largely copied from CP/M, produced by Gary Kildall.

This is how progress occurs.

https://matei.one/compsw.html#indrev

a French weaver and merchant named Joseph Marie Jacquard, who had a passion for gadgets, added a few modifications to some things invented earlier by some other guys and created a new type of loom in 1804, which he called the Jacquard loom,

#43

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

Last post by KyLiE - November 21, 2025, 08:52:17 AM

This is unfortunate to hear.  I was under the impression that this kind of thing was checked automatically, but perhaps that only applies to replays that are cloned in their entirety.  @dreadnaut or @Duplode, can you confirm if that's the case?

#44

Stunts Related Programs / Re: SDL 3

Last post by Matei - November 21, 2025, 07:55:39 AM

Possible workaround for "XMonad". Add 2 pixels to the width and height of the created window, file graphics/forsdl3/graph2d.c, line 139:

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RGLOB_window = SDL_CreateWindow(title,width+2,height+2,0);
If it doesn't work with 2 (it should), try more. I will make an update, but I have to think how. Fortunately, this problem doesn't occur very often; I never saw it and I tested:

https://matei.one/#performance

with SDL 2, but the problem also appears with SDL 2. I will have to update all my programs though and this could be a problem...

https://sourceforge.net/u/matei_v/profile/

#45

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

Last post by llm - November 21, 2025, 06:48:14 AM

I realise all this may not matter to many people. Some of us may be very picky with their food, but can sleep anywhere, while others can eat rubbish, but then need a comfy mattress. I like clean, logical, comprehensive code... I don't like using black boxes

so in short: you like only your own code, written in your own style - tottaly fine

#46

Chat - Misc / Re: Association game

Last post by alanrotoi - November 21, 2025, 02:04:03 AM

Clue

#47

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

Last post by Duplode - November 21, 2025, 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.

#48

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

Last post by MiDiaN - November 21, 2025, 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.

#49

Chat - Misc / Re: Association game

Last post by Erik Barros - November 21, 2025, 12:15:41 AM

mrs. peacock

#50

Stunts Related Programs / Re: SDL 3

Last post by Matei - November 20, 2025, 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.