[Ohrrpgce] Callipygous

[James Paige]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com>
wrote:

> OK, I'm basically done; I'm putting everything else off until after
> release, and don't really have more time right now. James, are you
> planning a release candidate?
>
>
Awesome! I Think I will declare a nightly build to be the release candidate
(without actually branching in svn just yet) and see if I can prod people
into testing.



> The only thing that still concerns me is my last todo list item:
>
> -slice errors now appearing in old games due to slice handle numbering
> changes. Just hiding the errors with Release Mode may not be good
> enough, they may be real (new) problems. The following are likely to
> be caused by the same problem:
> --Lots of suspicious pauses and script errors in Sephy's Angel
> Whispers (haven't checked whether actually caused by freeslice
> changes)
> --'waitslice, already deleted slice' in Karate Fight (probably no
> consequence)
>

Well... if we add a backcompat option for bringing back the old way of
allocating script handles, how much of a burden would it be to keep that
working in the future?

My (limited) understanding of this issue is that these games were
incorrectly re-using slice handles for slices that had been deleted, and
then new slices had been created with the same handle number


> Also there are some minor things, like fixing the permissible ranges
> and documentation for attack costs to match reality
>
> Other bugs put off:
> -backwards non-automatic shrink animation can crash (can test in slice
> editor)
> -double fade out in screensaver3.rpg (update palette)
> -fix two off-by-one bugs in battle backdrop animation ticks
> -window scaling when launched through steam wrong size (Citizen Kane)
> -sprite dissolve with transparent=no doesn't work
> -disable filtered alt in old games. For example in Apophenia (2010
> version) pressing alt instead of esc to bring up the menu doesn't work
> properly. (But with either alt or esc the menu flickers anyway.)
> -keyval repeat rate might break balance in old games? But only if they
> run < 18 fps. Not a new problem since Beelzebufo
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