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#81

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.)

#82

Stunts Related Programs / Re: SDL 3

Last post by Matei - November 21, 2025, 11:03:44 PM

Ok I just installed xM0n@d version 0.18.0 on Fedora 41. Worst dependencies I've ever seen, I had to download 110 files besides the updates. I had no problems with SDL 3 or SDL 1, with which the game worked perfectly with fullscr=0 and fullscr=1, but with SDL 2:

fullscr=0 - the controls didn't work, when I pressed any key the caracter just showed in the terminal, SDL_WINDOW_MOUSE_FOCUS|SDL_WINDOW_INPUT_FOCUS|SDL_WINDOW_MOUSE_GRABBED also didn't work, so Ctrl+Alt+F2 and "killall simcar".

fullscr=1 - "Set 623x600x32" instead of "Set 800x600x32", so a little more than 2 pixels missing and "Segmentation fault". DOSBox for SDL 2 also didn't work in full screen (just black rectangle), and ffplay from ffmpeg version 7.1 only shows the image on half of the screen, can't set it to full screen. MPlayer works well, but it doesn't use SDL 2.

There is a good solution for the problems with xMoNaD: don't use it, it's broken (I'll have to put that in the documentation).

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I forgot: on Fedora 41 I have sdl12-compat instead of SDL1, so with the option for SDL1 the game actually displays the image with SDL2, which worked, but with SDL2 (and MATE) the framerate is ~twice as high as with sdl12-compat. With SDL1, SDL2 and SDL3 used directly the framerates are comparable, of course.
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DOSBox for SDL 2 didn't work in full screen with MATE either, but here the whole screen was black instead of the rectangle in center. I typed "exit" and it worked though.
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#83

Chat - Misc / MINGVA LE VAN FINGVA!!!

Last post by CTG - November 21, 2025, 07:30:11 PM

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#84

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

Last post by dreadnaut - November 21, 2025, 05:23:52 PM

The cloned replays are now excluded from calculations. You can still find them at the bottom of the All Results page. I've refreshed the season's scoreboard, changes are luckily minor. PTB updates coming soon.

#85

Stunts Related Programs / Re: SDL 3

Last post by Matei - November 21, 2025, 05:16:13 PM

https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL3/SDL_CreateWindow

There might also be some flags here that could ~fix the problem, but I can't test them. Ex.:

SDL_WINDOW_BORDERLESS

This is to be added to the line mentioned above, instead of "0" and without adding 2 to "width" and "height". As I saw, the windows in "Xm0NaD" are without borders anyway, so maybe they have to be set like that from SDL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xmonad

#86

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.

#87

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,

#88

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?

#89

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/

#90

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