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by Z-Man
Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:38 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: NixOS: The last word in Armagetron hosting
Replies: 15
Views: 15180

Re: NixOS: The last word in Armagetron hosting

Yeah, for someone who loves total and direct control over their system, NixOS is a bad choice. It's the law of leaky abstractions that can strike. You're writing some configuration, and some not entirely clear process creates a different configuration, which some other program then uses. Worst case,...
by Z-Man
Thu Mar 21, 2024 10:37 pm
Forum: Beta Testing
Topic: 0.2.9.2 Release Process: Released
Replies: 10
Views: 3849

Re: 0.2.9.2 Release Process: Released

No, SDL_compat is supposed to be a straight replacement for SDL1.2. Mind that you still need the 1.2 versions of SDL_mixer and SDL_image. I use something like "nix-shell -p git gcc gnumake pkg-config autoconf automake which gnum4 python3 libxml2 libpng SDL2 SDL_compat SDL_image SDL_mixer" ...
by Z-Man
Wed Mar 20, 2024 8:38 pm
Forum: Beta Testing
Topic: 0.2.9.2.3 released
Replies: 0
Views: 675

0.2.9.2.3 released

Get it from the download site , Steam or itch.io . For Linux users, there also is Flatpak , Zero Install or the Ubuntu PPA . Apart from the macOS builds now declared stable, there are mostly bugfixes in there. And if you are wondering why there are already newer betas and release candidates, those c...
by Z-Man
Wed Mar 13, 2024 6:57 pm
Forum: Beta Testing
Topic: 0.2.9.2 Release Process: Released
Replies: 10
Views: 3849

Re: 0.2.9.2 Release Process: Final Staging

The hopefully final build is available: 0.2.9.2.1 . Why .1 already? .0 died a quick death to a sad trombone sound . The new builds are also available on the staging ppa . It was also supposed to appear on the zero install feed, but I borked that with a recent refactoring. Edit: No, it did not. Well,...
by Z-Man
Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:42 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: NixOS: The last word in Armagetron hosting
Replies: 15
Views: 15180

Re: NixOS: The last word in Armagetron hosting

This NixOS of yours, very clever. First post from NixOS. What gave me the final push is this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwfKlX3rA6E Yeah, this looks very tantalizing, especially for developers. Most of the benefits of Docker, Flatpak, ZeroInstall etc. without most of the drawbacks. No c...
by Z-Man
Mon Mar 04, 2024 7:45 pm
Forum: Competitions
Topic: Ladle 157
Replies: 1
Views: 720

Ladle 157

Was on March the third! Recordings for 0.2.9.1.1: round1_delidc_ac_vs_bm.aarec 12040kb 1266s round1_nanu_para_vs_red.aarec 24844kb 2174s round2_delidc_ac_vs_para.aarec 11872kb 1512s round2_nanu_rx_vs_red.aarec 14440kb 1243s round3_delieu_red_vs_ac.aarec 8264kb 1060s round3_nanu_bm_vs_rx.aarec 16168k...
by Z-Man
Sun Feb 25, 2024 7:59 pm
Forum: Beta Testing
Topic: 0.2.9.2 Release Process: Released
Replies: 10
Views: 3849

Re: 0.2.9.2 Release Process: Beta

The fix is now on all branches and all current source tarballs and builds.
by Z-Man
Fri Feb 23, 2024 11:39 pm
Forum: Beta Testing
Topic: 0.2.9.2 Release Process: Released
Replies: 10
Views: 3849

Re: 0.2.9.2 Release Process: Beta

Thanks for the feedback! Umm. Funny thing. Remember way back, when we found out that the clever pattern to avoid null checks before function calls class X { void f() { if(!this) return; // do some actual work } } was undefined behavior, the compiler was allowed to assume 'this' was never null and th...
by Z-Man
Mon Feb 19, 2024 11:18 pm
Forum: Beta Testing
Topic: 0.2.9.2 Release Process: Released
Replies: 10
Views: 3849

Re: 0.2.9.2 Release Process: Beta

Time for the release candidate phase! See the updated first post for current builds. In case you don't remember (and I would not blame you) or are new, the builds marked with 'rc' are identical to the ones with the same version suffix from the beta branch, but the difference is the branding. The bet...
by Z-Man
Mon Feb 19, 2024 8:40 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Been a long time, and I have a really stupid idea.
Replies: 2
Views: 908

Re: Been a long time, and I have a really stupid idea.

Sounds like a fun idea! Go for it, I'd say. Just one thing: I heard once that straight up RACING games are not popular with speedrunners because the point of the game already is to go fast, so speedrunning them is no different than playing them normally. So I would pick maps and settings where you d...