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#41

Competition 2025 / Re: ZCT293 - Symmetry

Last post by CTG - November 22, 2025, 02:08:08 PM

Currently my level is 1:08.xx in drunk state, online Default.trk racing - so, not a big deal, can be beaten easily by 5-10 pipsqueaks in an instant...

However, if I can find some motivation, podium is almost sure.

Quite a dilemma... shall I come back for "only one race"? I am pretty sure that if DOSBox will be available again, I will hunt (most of) you down, month to month...

But I don't want to. It was a sick life, with goals without real value...

#42

Competition 2025 / Re: ZCT293 - Symmetry

Last post by Matei - November 22, 2025, 02:01:32 PM

Btw: please suggest optimal DOSBox settings for W**11!

Yeah, get rid of that malware and install an operating system.

https://matei.one/idxscr.html#story (a little lower):

Even if you obtain a proprietary program from a legitimate source (see picture above) and don't pay anything, by using it you give free advertising to an organisation that works against you.

Which you just did.

#43

Competition 2025 / Re: ZCT293 - Symmetry

Last post by alanrotoi - November 22, 2025, 01:10:34 PM

I hope a full Lambo scoreboard to not see this car in the next years

The first question is, left or right? Is right right or right is wrong?

#44

Competition 2025 / Re: ZCT293 - Symmetry

Last post by CTG - November 22, 2025, 01:00:34 PM

I have to say it's a nice track, based on the map (and the prohibition of dual-way switch).

I am not aware of the current car (bonus) rules, but it seems to be a perfect Audi Quattro circuit.

Btw: please suggest optimal DOSBox settings for Win11!

#45

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

Last post by CTG - November 22, 2025, 12:56:46 PM

Probably I have already told 45234365 times, but still: my ZCT34 replay should be deleted, too. The first ~12 seconds of my replay was stolen from Poo.

#46

Competition 2025 / ZCT293 - Symmetry

Last post by Duplode - November 22, 2025, 12:54:41 PM

Starting with a poll! And with an amusing tidbit from Wednesday's PTB update 

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#47

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

Last post by Matei - November 22, 2025, 12:06:59 PM

There's another problem. If someone gets access to someone else's replay, that person can just imitate the other person's driving style, which is made easier by slowing down the emulator with F12 + [ in DOSBox-X or by just increasing the number of cycles to a high enough value in the original DOSBox. Not that I wasted any time doing this, just saying.

#48

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

Last post by Duplode - November 22, 2025, 11:34:27 AM

The PTB tables now have been recalculated. There have been some changes to them starting from ZCT288 (cf. the page as it was yesterday). Overall, 127:03 of PTB time has been redistributed. No one got additional points from those hours as of now (it might still happen in ZCT293), though some half-points have been earned earlier than we thought: Alan Rotoi on ZCT292 rather than ZCT293; KyLiE on ZCT289 rather than ZCT292; Zapper on ZCT290 rather than ZCT292.

#49

Stunts Related Programs / Re: SDL 3

Last post by Matei - November 22, 2025, 07:44:21 AM

I don't think you'd want to make that change in your code, though, as it has side effects on other environments where everything has been working normally

That's not what I meant. As I wrote above:

I will make an update, but I have to think how.

I would have added some instructions in the documentation to edit graph2d.c and add those 2 pixels if necessary, or put some parameters in file "config", but if you read my previous message, that doesn't help:

fullscr=1 - "Set 623x600x32" instead of "Set 800x600x32", so a little more than 2 pixels missing and "Segmentation fault".

-- see e.g. the black lines at the right and bottom of the window

You can imagine that I already tested and saw those, which is how I came to the conclusion that the "workaround" should work for you.

The share of Simcar users is vanishingly small without having to specify other details. People don't like good games, I can't do anything about that.

#50

Stunts Related Programs / Re: SDL 3

Last post by Duplode - November 22, 2025, 01:10:04 AM

Thanks for trying it with XMonad, and sorry for the truckload of dependencies 😅 Installing XMonad pulls the Haskell toolchain because it is configured through Haskell code (much like, say, dwm is configured through C code), so it is mostly used by people who already have the Haskell toolchain on their system for independent reasons.

I had no problems with SDL 3 or SDL 1, with which the game worked perfectly with fullscr=0 and fullscr=1

Interesting that it worked for you on SDL 3 plus (I presume) the default configuration of XMonad (as opposed to the customised one I have here). Another reason for me to examine my setup, I guess.

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);

This workaround did work here on my current XMonad setup: no segfaults and 800x600 reported size on both the SDL2 and SDL3 builds. I don't think you'd want to make that change in your code, though, as it has side effects on other environments where everything has been working normally -- see e.g. the black lines at the right and bottom of the window in this screenshot taken in Xfce, where the window size becomes 802x602:



The share of Simcar users that have XMonad as their window manager is vanishingly small (i.e. probably just me), so it wouldn't be reasonable to expect Simcar to incorporate messy workarounds just to cater for that. Besides, I'm reasonably confident about finding a way to deal with this through XMonad configuration, by adding some kind of special rule for the handling of window borders. (And worst case, if nothing else works, I can just start a Xfce session when I want to play Simcar.)