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[Jonathan S. Fox]

The LCS manual is already based on the original Oubliette manual, actually.

[LiteralKa]

Hmm, a national terror alert level would be cool.

[EuchreJack]

The LCS manual is already based on the original Oubliette manual, actually.

I know, that's why I want the original Oubliette manual to reference.  I'd hate to edit the manual and mess up the tone.

[Jonathan S. Fox]

I don't worry too much about that myself, for the simple reason that it's a restraint that doesn't improve the experience most people have with the game, assuming as I do that most players haven't actually played Oubliette. This is actually one of the places where I very consciously have broken with the original approach to the game.

[LiteralKa]

Anyone know of any Linux software that supports .cpc images?

[LiteralKa]

Or could help me develop one?

[Jonathan S. Fox]

I'm not convinced the .cpc and .cmv files LCS uses even are a standard file type. The only .cpc and .cmv I was able to find are a proprietary compressed image type and a completely unrelated Corel movie file format.

I once, in my madness early on, hacked together the Liberal Guardian newspaper image in notepad, and I had to learn the file format to do that. LCS's art files for .cpc and .cmv are almost identical in format, are uncompressed, and use literal ASCII codes. They are basically very simple console bitmaps, with support for multiple images of identical dimensions per file.

It would probably take me no more than a couple days to build a nice editor for either, using the curses library, if I was uninterrupted. On the other hand, Tarn Adams may have one already, if I'm correct about it being a custom file format. I've actually never asked.

Edit: There should be some documentation for the image and movie file formats on SVN that you could use to develop an editor, and the code for reading them is already in the game, so you could look at that too.

[LiteralKa]

I'm not convinced the .cpc and .cmv files LCS uses even are a standard file type. The only .cpc and .cmv I was able to find are a proprietary compressed image type and a completely unrelated Corel movie file format.

I once, in my madness early on, hacked together the Liberal Guardian newspaper image in notepad, and I had to learn the file format to do that. LCS's art files for .cpc and .cmv are almost identical in format, are uncompressed, and use literal ASCII codes. They are basically very simple console bitmaps, with support for multiple images of identical dimensions per file.

It would probably take me no more than a couple days to build a nice editor for either, using the curses library, if I was uninterrupted. On the other hand, Tarn Adams may have one already, if I'm correct about it being a custom file format. I've actually never asked.

Edit: There should be some documentation for the image and movie file formats on SVN that you could use to develop an editor, and the code for reading them is already in the game, so you could look at that too.

Wait, there's documentation for the cmv files too?

[Jonathan S. Fox]

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".

[LiteralKa]

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".

Hmm, well that would make sense. At the moment, I am trying to code something that merely outputs the newspaper pics, without using any LCS includes.

[Leafsnail]

Can I just say: I like the censorship of the headlines in C+ free speech.  That convicted [reproduction fiend] ended up [unfortunately harming the police officer].

I'm actually slightly sad now that Free Speech is C.

And what caused Nuclear Power to jump all the way to liberal?  Hmm, odd...

[Jonathan S. Fox]

Nuclear power jumping to Liberal is a bug caused by someone accidentally using an assignment operator instead of an equality operator, which probably only makes sense if you code in a language that shares some syntax with C.

[Leafsnail]

Hmm... ok then.

Is it still the case that only cultural sleepers affect election results?

EDIT: Oh god... I just blew all four limbs off some poor crackhead in the CCS base.  Ugh...

[LiteralKa]

Hmm... ok then.

Is it still the case that only cultural sleepers affect election results?

EDIT: Oh god... I just blew all four limbs off some poor crackhead in the CCS base.  Ugh...

Recruit him! Its sooooo hard to get cripples in the squad!

[Servant Corps]

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?