Boulder Dash Forum

Come to think of it, even this perfect solution has a potential flaw because there might be GDash original games where scheduling type was set to BD1 and milling timer was 0. If such a cave was made with an earlier GDash version, then 0 should be 0, but the "perfect" GDash version would r...

About the magic wall timer. In BD1, BD2 and PLCK, it was a one byte value with an independent timer. It is set with a one byte value. The timer works by counting interrupts, ie. 60 per second on NTSC. Whenever it reaches 60, the magic wall's second timer is increased and then compared against the se...

Most people don't even notice the slow explosions. What makes you need fast explosions that badly? For the best PLCK experience standalone game, I suggest using the Deluxe Packer 1.55: http://www.gratissaugen.de/erbsen/dlp155.zip But you still get most of the annoying quirks of the original Construc...

By using two inboxes, one of them surrounded by diamonds and the other surrounded by exits, the cave can then be solved with any combination of two inputs, not "only" by pressing right two times :D Far too complicated. You can just put open exits and don't need to collect any diamonds at ...

Logic DeLuxe's bugfix already fixes the strictly unsolvable caves A/5, I/4 and I/5. However, there are still a few solvable but insane higher-level caves which I also want to fix. The patch was updated years ago which also includes tweaks for K/4, N/2 and P/3. http://www.boulder-dash.nl/forum/viewt...

I strongly recommend "Crazy Dream 7", the author of Logicdeluxe. It is probably the most feature rich Boulder Dash on the C64, but you likely would prefer playing it on GDash. The C64 version is not exactly optimized code wise. Back then, I coded this with the Action Replay monitor and a ...

Note, however, that there is an issue with starting values that do not belong to the 949 cycle and can change the behaviour of the first ~30 slimes in the first frame (and only there). You should clarify which engine we are talking about. Obviously not Atari/C64, whose caves are too small for 949 s...

1. the engine supports the "MW stops amoeba" feature (which the BD2 engine doesn't but many fanmade engines do!); It is worth a note that this feature is not present in any of the original BD engines. 1stB introduced this behavior and provides it as a per cave option. The idea of converti...

Dustin wrote:Version 2: However, as I learned from Logic in the CSO university thread, the original BD2 engine and also the PLCK engines activate the checkmark immediately when the voodoo is killed.

BD2 has no voodoo. That was an addition to PLCK.

This is annoying: Whenever I click on that link which brings me to the first unread post in a topic, I'm suddenly not logged in. I can go back with the browser navigation, and then I'm logged in again, and I'm also keep logged in when I click on the topic's name or on a page number. Clearly somethin...

Dustin wrote:Cave 29
Cave 29 ("Time Fuse") starts at 3:24.

This is indeed an example where the implementation matters. It works that way in Gdash, but not in PLCK, Rockford would explode in the same frame the voodoo is detected and exploded by the firefly.

Open borders are a topic on its own, especially since there are several different implementations, and none of them is perfect. There is no official way, since the original game didn't have this feature. Ideally, as far as CSO is concerned, it should only effect elements which set flags between fram...

I've checked it, and my suspicions are true. And so are your observations for Gdash. There are relevant differences in Gdash compared to the Atari/C64 engines. First, let's analyze the voodoo behavior: After the scan, there are these checks in Gdash: /* PLAYER */ if ((player_state == GD_PL_LIVING &a...

So is the magic wall also not completely passive? Magicwall is passive. Most animations are done within the raster interrupt, ie. completely separated from the scanning. BD1 and BD2 caves have even flags for turning on or off the amoeba, butterfly and firefly animations to speed up the engine. Some...

First of all, remember that there are some passive elements which can't do anything on their own. These elements, which are dirt, empty space, wall, magic wall, titanium wall, voodoo and outbox, are just skipped by the scanner. Outbox is a somewhat special case. It is not a passive element from the...