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Oops, I should have thought to check whether that crash happened anywhere else when I fixed the first case. I just had a look and found a 3rd instance, but only in a debug menu. (Also, I'm to blame for introducing that bug in the first place)

Welcome! Feel free to ask questions. (Or ask them in the discord server if you want faster answers.) Mushroom gal? Reminds me, wasn't there an OHRRPGCE game with mushroom people... was it Quodia ? The HowTo is pretty out of date in places. What do you think most needs improving about it? It would be...

Silly me. I forgot I had a complete backup of The Hamster Wheel (the 2013-2015 incarnation, not the 2008-2010 incarnation). Here are the contest results MBS got back to me too. He's still reviewing RPGs (non-OHR ones now), and happy for me to put up a mirror of THW. Thanks for necroing threads, Bird!

Actually, FB does support setting the icon, using an .rc file, and fbgfx also will icon at the top-left of the window while running to the same icon. When you compile game.exe yourself, game.ico is embedded. When you use Distribute Game, the icon compiled into game.exe is replaced using support/rced...

The source code is a mix of .rbas and .bas files. rbas is RELOADBasic, our extension to FreeBASIC. .rbas files are processed to .bas files by reloadbasic.py, while other modules are only .bas, with no .rbas file. Generated .bas files are put in the build/ directory away from all the original source ...

Hint: a shortcut for working out how to read or write data is to examine the code for the script commands that achieve the same thing, if there are any. In your case, the "total experience" or "experience to next level" commands: CASE 269'--total experience IF valid_hero_party&am...

NPC names will be very useful! For example annotating NPCs in the map editor, NPC ID constants in scripts, referring to the same (or equivalent) NPC on different maps without needing to be the same NPC ID, embedding NPC names in textboxes. I already have a git branch for that , it's about half done....

I'd like to know too. The results were posted on The Hamster Wheel but that site is gone and the results weren't captured by archive.org. This is as close as you can get to them. I sent MBS a PM (don't have an email address), but he's told me before that he has no backup of THW. <a href="https:...

If you're compiling a recent version of the engine, you get a release build with "scons release=1 pdb=1" (which is currently equivalent to "scons gengcc=1 debug=0 pdb=1"). But in 2013 scons didn't take those options, looks like we used just "scons debug=0" back then. Ad...

Good to hear. MinGW (Minimal GNU for Windows) is a Windows port of the GCC toolchain. There are also other ports, including MinGW-w64 which I recommend if you want to install a recent version of GCC. I'm surprised you had problems with GCC 4.7.1. GCC is actually highly compatible between different v...

Use GCC. Visual Studio isn't supported for compiling game, custom, or any of the other .exes, but is required for compiling gfx_directx.dll. I did make a start on adding support for compiling everything with VS (probably the main roadblock is that SConscript passes lots of gcc commandline arguments)...

Working MIDI support should hopefully require simply installing a set of instrument patches (soundfonts) using your distribution's package manager, basically it's an optional dependency for the OHRRPGCE. But it is definitely confusing and annoying and not trivial, and on my own system I've manually ...

Aside from running away from battle, you can just use ALT for anything ESC could do. Funny fact: I discovered a couple months ago that Tab can be used to run from battle instead of ESC! Back in the days of DOS (where I spent most time playing games) I think it was most common to start with assignin...

Bob looks so good in crayon. Haven't we seen any crayon Bob doodles before? I do remember an early Bob in pencil.

The colour and blending on that plip is nice!

Nathan: crayon or pastel?

That was bad RNG : (

But it wouldn't be an RL without permadeath and rolling new characters over and over!