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Author Topic: LCS 4.00.5a Download - Now With 100% More Classic Mode  (Read 76173 times)

Leafsnail

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Re: LCS 4.00.5a Download - Now With 100% More Classic Mode
« Reply #405 on: December 06, 2009, 06:42:13 pm »

Just out of interest, would it be possible to clean up the messages you get each day?  Perhaps to display them all on one page, or to remove unnecessary ones (I don't care how much money each of my individual prostitutes makes :P).
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« Reply #406 on: December 07, 2009, 03:00:42 pm »

Hm. I still really need to release that Stalinist Mod, even as a beta, just to get people's opinions on how the mechanics work. But I'm too busy on other stuff. Gah. LiteralKa, can you compile the Stalinist Mod and release it (just so that I know what to fix for next time), or no?
Umm, that depends on my schedule. Probably not though, I'll see if I can get my work done quickly, though.
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« Reply #407 on: December 07, 2009, 03:05:41 pm »

Maybe not? Maybe I just imagined that I looked at them and they were similar in format to the .cpc files. It was a long time ago. Even if I didn't look at them, they're probably virtually identical if not completely so; even the .cpc files have multiple "frames", they just use them to represent separate images.

Along with my suspicion that this is a custom file format, my guess is that .cpc stands for "curses/console pic" and .cmv stands for "curses/console movie".

Doing this would allow me to fix a major problem with newspapers on Wine and Linux.
(See http://www.autohotkey.net/~LiteralKa/Bugs.zip for SOME pictures, I have many, many more.)
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« Reply #408 on: December 07, 2009, 03:37:46 pm »

Yes, I'm familiar with how newspapers appear on Linux. It is because the console in Linux doesn't use the character set the newspapers are designed with; you might be able to make them look more readable, but without going to unicode, I don't think you can make them look the way they're supposed to.
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« Reply #409 on: December 07, 2009, 03:39:26 pm »

Yes, I'm familiar with how newspapers appear on Linux. It is because the console in Linux doesn't use the character set the newspapers are designed with; you might be able to make them look more readable, but without going to unicode, I don't think you can make them look the way they're supposed to.

I can try. ;)
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« Reply #410 on: December 08, 2009, 04:56:08 am »

There should be a way to set your termcaps to show high-bit IBM ASCII. I don't know how, but it should be doable.

EDIT: Set your encoding to cp437 and you should be fine, assuming your console supports it.
« Last Edit: December 08, 2009, 05:58:02 am by Blacken »
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« Reply #411 on: December 08, 2009, 11:54:23 am »

By the way... if anyone wants proof of the power of a Liberal Judge, Biased Jury and Ace Liberal Lawyer:





Yup, I cleared my founder.

Operation "Decriminalise the LCS" is going brilliantly.  I managed to get 4 agents, each with about 50 counts of murder to their name off innocent too.
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« Reply #412 on: December 08, 2009, 03:07:18 pm »

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« Reply #413 on: December 08, 2009, 03:44:53 pm »

That's Tom Sawyer for you.
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« Reply #414 on: December 08, 2009, 03:48:26 pm »

Re: the high-bit stuff discussed above--I haven't looked at the LCS code, but unless it's mighty funky you should be able to use Unicode equivalents that work on Unix and Windows without having to mess with the Unix termcaps.
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« Reply #415 on: December 08, 2009, 03:53:11 pm »

That's Tom Sawyer for you.

Haha, I didn't even notice that.
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« Reply #416 on: December 08, 2009, 03:59:11 pm »

She'd actually performed about 100 kidnappings, but the four were the failed ones :P.

Anyway, at the moment it seems courts are only a formality in my game.  Also happy because an Elite Liberal government has finally got in.

Edit: OMG, animal rights are L+!  I like the way that Marion can leave guard dogs to "Hunger and thirst like a lost animal".
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Re: LCS 4.00.5a Download - Now With 100% More Classic Mode
« Reply #417 on: December 08, 2009, 10:42:23 pm »

how do you even get guard dogs?

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« Reply #418 on: December 09, 2009, 02:55:31 am »

how do you even get guard dogs?

I've never done this myself, but I think you can recruit them when the animal rights issue is L+.
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« Reply #419 on: December 09, 2009, 03:06:52 am »

Yeah. I was wondering. If you play guitar to the genetic abominations, could you theoretically convert them?
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