[CF-Devel] xpm removal???

[Peter Mardahl]

I think Klaus needs a character client:  a client which displays
floor as . walls as #,
monsters as a-z A-Z, the player as @, food as %, money as $,
gems as *, and so on!


PeterM


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      Well, I have another argument against removing any of the three set.
     
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      Something out of (my) history
     
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      I started playing crossfire in his beginning on old sun3 systems with
     
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      20Mz and three players. And it worked. I used fonts for the playing.
     
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      I use the same machines in my museum today. But I can't play crossfire
     
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      anymore on it, because it needs a lot more performance.
     
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      091.x work well on them today.
     
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      Stop, I can hear you: Sun3-Systems are out.
     
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      I used SLC/ELC (25Mhz Sparc) with mono displays. Nice, I liked that.
     
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      slc/elc are dead (:-()
     
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      Since then I started playing on SS10 (2x66Mhz320MB) and I can use xpm's.
     
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      Nice, added some flair. But the real flair (imho) is crossfire, not
     
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      all the nice pictures. (I have no time to view all those nice pictures,
     
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      when a dragon blasts fire on me :-()
     
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      But my SS10 got into problems, when the client got introduced. Cients are
     
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      nice, but they need performance. Imho: the playing without them was
     
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      much smoother (on old machines and for me).
     
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      Additionally: I have to use the cfclient-version. The gtk I can't play
     
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      because of the lack on performance, Even I have a cpu for the server
     
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      and another one for the client.
     
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      I started playing on an Ultra166Mhz with the server (100Mbit connection)
     
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      on a E450 (4x400Mhz4GB). Well. Much smoother than on my SS10, but not as
     
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      smooth as in the early days.
     
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      Well SS10 are out. (:-((()
     
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      I used the above configuration to play with png's. Impressed. Crossfire
     
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      gets nicer. (Nice enough for 1.0 :-))))
     
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      But I can't play it with resonable speed on my configuration.
     
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      Is the above configuration out?
     
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      I'm realy sad.
     
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      See it: The flair of crossfire has less to do with nice pictures, than
     
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      with lots of features/maps/monsters/spells..., running on all machines
     
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      you can imagine. (Crossfire is the test-source, when I install new
     
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      historical unix/vax-Box in my museum :-))
     
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      Well. I can use the newest amd/pentium system with lots of Mhz.
     
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      (Flame on:)
     
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      But I won't (have to deal with any of them.) I'm an old fashion unix-bofh.
     
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      That's me.
     
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      (Flame off)
     
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      So please, don't remove the xpm's. Try to convert at least newly created png'
     
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     s
     
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      (automatically) to xpm. I think there are many folks out there, which would
     
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      thank you for that. Not only me and my friends.
     
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      And another conclusion: Try to do something on the performance (without
     
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      removing the code for xbm/xpm...).
     
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      My impression is, that whith the availability of lot's of Mhz. the programmer
     
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      didn't think anymore on better algorithms than on featurism. The code
     
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      get's worse and worse. And that's not only an impression of crossfire.
     
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      It's an impression of all code developed in the last years. And I have seen
     
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      lot's of it. It's part of my job.
     
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      Well, Mark and the unnamed others did a lot of work on the code and that's
     
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      on reason, that it isn't as bad, as it had been some times ago and it could
     
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      have been without him.
     
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      Bis dann
     
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      Klaus
     
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      -- 
     
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      "Sure, vi is user friendly.
     
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       It's just particular about who it makes friends with." ;-) 
     
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