The 1970s version uses a different scrolling system.... It can "spook" things up a little, but it's not a real bummer, so I'll lave it the way it is

I need to see if this is true though

I think I fixed a minor scrolling issue in the normal savegame screen....

But I will have to see later if that truly works out

I've done a few more things to speed up the process on the boss in Volcania....

The first playable character of a possible Star Story II has her portrait ready!

I already suspected this, but there's a bug making stuff go over the slot cap.... I need to look into that....

A few checkups and maintenance actions will be taken care of in the meantime....

Experience points however IS correctly linked

In older savegames the data is broken, but the system can automatically detect this, and fix that, so no problem here....

...

Link error found in Crystal

All issues accounted for

Take VI

Allowing scrolling up was malfunctioning

That fixes a lot

Take V

Coordinate error on scroll up button

Take IV

Hover conflict

Take III

Syntax error

Take II

Unrelated issue, but despite the block, switching characters in the Yaqirpa prologue still worked, which shouldn't have been possible

Take I

Well, the big question is now... DOES IT WORK?

Scrolling itself

The setup is done to make sure the vault knows when scrolling might be in order

Start up the operation

I still need to repeat this one

unfortunately...

Before I get to that I must first clean up my workplace, as the GameVar internal thing created more of a mess than I expected

Okay, I've created a nice situation to see if I can get #84 to work

Cycle complete

Take XXX

GRRR!

KUT MET PEREN!

Take XXIX

I see that the ABLUSED metatable was in the deleted code... Well good thing I archived it (and that I can see old statusses on GitHub as well).

FINALLY!

Take XXVIII

Fixed

Link forgotten

Take XXVII

I forgot auto substitution (used in BoxText)

It all seems to be alright now

Take XXVI (Load)

Okay

Take XXV (save)

As a result two more takes required... One to save and one to load

Another crucial generation bug in the underlying C++ code

Take XXIV

One more test is needed to see if loading games work properly

The data Stach shows me now looks good

Take XXIII

All good now?

compiling

A few more generation bugs in the underlying C++ code

Still no good, but the worst part appears to have been taken care of now

Take XXII

Generation bug in the underlying C++ code

Missing extension in JCR file (savegame)

Stuff doesn't work on MANY accounts

Take XXI

Property != Method

Take XX

I think that will happen some more.... Oh well

Barf forgotten

Variables do load, btw... It went wrong on saving

Take XIX

Illegal function call in glue code

Take XVIII

Compiling

Show function was not internally linked to the API system

Take XVII

Wrong type number in Glue Script

Take XVI

Barf

New "Done" metatable

Take XV

Fixing a conflict in the process

Another adaption required

Take XIV

And in the Field's callback routines as well

Take XIII

FieldMap conflicts fixed

Progress.... But not close to the finish line yet

Take XII

Why lua has no boolean checker is beyond me.... Would save up a lot of code, I tell ya!

Done that now anyway

Forgot to barf, which is needed when you fix something in the Apollo glue scripts

Take XI

Another case error in the glue code fixed

Take X

A big trapdoor when linking case insensitive code to case sensitive underlying APIS and cores.

Case error in linkups

Take IX

Another conflict gone!

Take VIII

AAARGH!!!!

Take VII

Really Microsoft should know you never include .cpp files, but header files only... In normal C++ usage, that is....

#include error by VisualStudio include fuck

DA FUUUUUCK!?

Take VI

Another conflict gone

That should do it

Glue code to receive it and split it

Creating a dump

Ah, de debug dumb is (of course) no longer functional... No matter....

Take V

Fixed those too

Missed a few macros

Take IV

(Okay "everything" might be too strong of a word, but you get what I mean, right?)

That should fix eveything

Adepted two marcos

Aha! Marco issue, that explains

Let's use my Antonius tool, then...

Persistent in this impossibility, aren't we?

Take III

it claims it has an unknown identifier, however no such thing appears to be present.... Hmmmm....

A removal that was too quick -- Aurina

Take II

BARF script run

And voided a few issues in this thing in other things

Conflict caused in the Aurina implementation

Take I

I did try to make sure that old savegame will remain compatible

This is one of those bugs of which you NEVER can tell if they are fixed, only when they happen again, you can tell they are not.... Still, all I can do is test if the game works properly now, and see what happens

Recompiling Apollo

Let's first run my building script

A complete rebuild of all stuff will be in order!

It is of course not yet said that everything works the way it should, but we'll have to see...

Adaption completed

The removal has already been done, by the way

It doesn't end there yet. Previously the old GameVar sub did the saving of stuff.... But since I had to remove that part, it can no longer do that, so a few adaptions are required

Linked

The Neil Glue code

Code to make the API go

I think I will resort to my original plan to put the gamevars in the main core of the Apollo Engine....

I really do not know why this happens, but I do know that the GameVars routine may be to blame for #141 -- The reasons why are beyond me. Nothing stacks up in there, so stack overflows are impossible in every single way.... Yet they happen... What I could find was pretty specific on that...

Resuming!

Issue with hidden area floor 14 Excalibur

And let's go on....

Identifier issue

Let's resume at Excalibur Floor 005

Experience bar was NOT supposed to remain visible once the level cap has been reached

I'll go for the Flower Jungle now... In this cycle I'll skip most of the side-quests... I trust them all right now... I may need one or two more cycles to do the very last things before the alpha can be officially open....

Thanks to my Dumbledore debug system I have a few characters close to the level cap... This allows me to test a few important things I want to be tested before the open alpha will be released

I've tested up to finishing the science facility

Stach has not yet been updated to this, this will be done later....

I DID IT!!!!

In C++ the packed block didn't load into memory causing zlib to malfunction

That should also be taken care of now, but let's see

The same issues here

Fixed those

Some things were not right

Fixed that!

I forgot to detect the BLOCK tag in JCR6 files

Builder takes it up (partially)

Some preparations to advance the builder

I've taken care of Belioss and Marlon's garden

Made sure the blocks are flushed before Apollo is closed.

At this moment no visual effect in the game, but that was supposed to happen, since the game files do not use blocks yet.... At least that means there are no conflicts, which is good....

Let's see

Classes in the C++ library for JCR6 adapted for Blocks support

I cannot yet make the game take advantage of that yet.... Adapting the building is not the hard part since the builder is written in C#, however Apollo itself is NOT. It's written in C++. I need to adapt the C++ libraries, and that is due to the way the memory management works in C++ more of a challenge....

NJCR supports it now as well.....

That does not necesarily prove things, though....

A test program looks hopeful... At least Heks doesn't show any serious trouble....

And I also did the writer only yet... Without writing, reading cannot be tested after all...

It's far from sure that this game my take advantage of that, but future games might

The C# version of JCR6 should now be able to create blocks to pack multiple files together in one big packed block.... Similar to solid archiving in 7z and RAR

DA FUUUUCK!?

Take IV

I hope

But it'll have to wait until later, I'm afraid!

But I didn't fully see what I wanted to see, so some fixups are still required

At least there are no crashes

Take III

Neil Bug on new items

Take II

Two unknown identifiers fixed

Take I

Testing won't exactly be easy, but I'll give it a try anyway. Also time is also not my best friend today, but let's see what I can do!

Linked to the ability

A new animation for Quake as the old seems impossible.

Resume at Phantasar

I know I should fix the Quake move, but I'm short on time today, so it'll have to wait a few more days

The master test has been done

Alpha channel issue in White Apocalypse

Let's resume the Black Castle

A good night's sleep

the Master is for tomorrow... I must know when to quit a session!

Up to defeating the Elite Cid's apprentice

Let's go on!

It DOES appear that the game runs faster now on the enemies, but it's too soon to be sure

Idiocy

I'm first gonna test the Black Castle ... Again....