I keep having having Dreams and In the dream I'm asking my cousin, how far did you get in 3d Lemmings, I knew in the dream that he never completed lemmings 3d it before, well maybe in real life he has but not in the dream.

I quite liked Lemmings 3d and recommend it to other fans of lemmings, it is a bit tricky getting used to the camera but once you know the basics with the camera controls, it's a really fun game.

I completed the game a while back. 

Pushover is a really great game and very fun puzzle game, I played the atari st version of the game and I remember the music really well.  My dad and brother really like Pushover as well.

Good on you for working on that one VorticonCmdr

That reminds me: I am probably away on the weekend of the 6.3.2027 as most likely a wedding where I am invited will take place there.

Quote from: Simon on August 19, 2026, 07:44:02 PMHappy to have you here!

I can provide full sleeping gear (airbed, sheets, pillow, blanket) for up to 2 guests in the living room. It makes sense to offer this option to guests from the UK first, to allow you to travel light. I recommend that extra guests book a hotel, but I can host a 3rd guest at my place as long as he brings full sleeping gear himself.

-- Simon

Really appreciate the kind gesture to accommodate us Simon.

Just bumping the topic too. See if there's anymore interest

It's only been a few weeks since the previous meet up but I thought it is probably time to put a topic up so we can plan the next one.

It was discussed that we would most likely be venturing south of the UK this time and we'll not be meeting up in Leeds this time.
Bristol has been suggested as a good meeting up spot by Will and hrb264.

Anyone who is able to get to the meet up is welcome even if you've never been to one before. The more the merrier.

If we decide on Bristol....

Since it might be far for some of us to travel to Bristol (140 miles from me in Mansfield), this could be considered to be a 2 day meetup for some. I'm certainly going to be staying overnight myself if this goes ahead. We should liaise about what hotel we will be staying at if a significant number of us need hotels. (like when me, Simon and Will went to Dundee, we booked into the same hotel so we had fun in the evenings on that trip, it just makes the meet up more enjoyable between days!).

Like with the previous meet up, I'm willing to offer to pick forumers up who are en route between Nottingham and Bristol, likewise if you can make it from up north to Nottingham for a reasonable time, I can pick you up from the railway station before we head south (like I helped hrb264 at the previous Leeds meet up).
The only thing is I will be staying overnight most likely so you'll most likely have to stay overnight if you want a lift back.
Let me know in this topic or send me a PM on the forums if you'd like a lift.

When?

I'm putting this topic up early so we can start planning it but I'm probably thinking of Oct/early Nov time for this. It also gives people plenty of notice to sort out accomodation/train travel and get them cheaper.

I'd like it to be over a weekend Sat/Sun, I'd be willing to go for a 3rd day also and include Monday or the Friday before if there's interest in that. That would require me to get time off work now as I'm on a Mon-Fri schedule now.
Pretty much any weekend would be good for me, I'm guaranteed to not be working.

So let me know what weekends are best for you. If weekends are not great, let me know also and we'll try and accommodate everyone best we can.

Even if you don't know about your availability, just let me know if you're interested in coming! 

Hunch: Do the event handlers (callback functions) for on-click run in separate threads? Or somehow else separated from the main logic? And do they accomplish a lot of work by loading the level during the callback? Then: I'd try to make the event handlers lightweight. They should merely notify the main logic that filename/level X should be loaded. Later, the main logic opens the file. We can't get a race bug if only one thread ever opens files ...

... which means progess if these assumptions hold:

• Avoiding such a race will actually fix the symptom.
• Windows file I/O, or your UI library, can have such races in the first place.

I've written all the Lix UI myself (no UI library, only Allegro for the graphical primitives) and the UI runs single-threaded in the main thread. I can't run into a threading bug by design. The downside is that everything fast/parallelized/coroutine-like needs explicit and hand-written support for this in the UI widget that wants to parallelize. It's rare enough (only the level search) that it was fine to implement a coroutine by hand: Load level metadata from disk for several levels until N milliseconds have passed, then memorize progress and stop, and when the UI calls us next tick, load some more.

Level metadata loading is opening file, reading line-by-line until we have found author and title, and then closing it immediately. It duplicates part of the normal level loading, but that's okay, it's a speed hack. Windows file I/O still has to open the file in both cases for reading, I can't get around that in a level tree of loose files.

More details when I have more time.

-- Simon

Quote from: WillLem on August 27, 2026, 04:06:01 AMUsers can now set Insert as the default mode
advanced users can set this as their default mode

Hmm, defaulting to non-insert mode is in good line with the findings.

Consider to complement this with an option to allow airclick to cut the replay during insert mode. That's what I've missed the most along with starting in insert mode.

You'll essentially have the same 3 independent bool options as Lix has: Start in insert mode? Airclicks cut in regular mode? Airclicks cut in insert mode? This is the least annoying set that I found so far. I don't expect this design to live forever (3 bools is 8 variants), and I really want to do better than this. But it's the best I see for now.

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If we disable airclick, should clicking the R in the panel cancel replay? I.e., should that R always function as a cancel-replay button? The UI doesn't communitcate that, but it can still react to clicks. Hunch is yes, but it really leads back to the same ancient question of how to make replay canceling explicit and easy to discover.

-- Simon

Users can now set Insert as the default mode (NLCEPlayer commit 2f55cf7.)

This means that as soon as a replay begins, it will do so in R Insert Mode (if that's the desired default mode) rather than R Standard Mode. The 'Insert Mode' toggle hotkey (O by default) can still switch between the two as usual.

So, we can now tweak Insert Mode to be more like the proposed 'Single Mode' (which we can now consider rejected as a standalone idea), and advanced users can set this as their default mode if they wish to do so.

I believe this solution offers the best of all worlds.

Solved the Bittersweet levels. Another high quality batch, and these are getting tough now!

OK... guarding against re-entrancy didn't work (although I still can't shake the suspicion that this is what's responsible, albeit maybe from the Windows side).

I'll make an experimental build that logs clicks and ask Flopsy to test it, but... thinking about it, I'm beginning to wonder if it's time to just re-think the entire Level Select menu.

I'd like to set the treeview on fire and display the levels some other way.

Lix is able to search 1000+ levels in seconds. How does Lix store levels in the menu? Does it cache on load? Does it store them as a simple list and worry about connecting the level to data later, or is storage fully object-based?

The fact that Lix lists the levels on buttons is clever; the buttons cannot be clicked twice, which is an elegant way to prevent having to re-load the same level.