still no progress on the 2-player version (because I haven't decided yet). But I believe I fixed the technical issues already. There is a "Hardware Accuracy" option now which let's you choose which Tandy version you want to hear.

Quote from: The Tomato Watcher on July 27, 2026, 11:52:06 PMHello VorticonCmdr, and welcome to the Forums since I hadn't said that yet. 

I've spotted some graphics and sound issues, and apologies if this seems nitpicky;
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Hope this is helpful at all!

Hi Tomato Watcher,

love the feedback! No worries being nitpicky. I want to improve this project so this is very helpful!

Finding the correct timings of the pc speaker code will be a great project for the weekend.

If you find anything else let me know. I will try my best to integrate yours and Simons feedback.

Cheers
Valentin

Congratulations to the winners! Many solid levels.

Epilogue had the most interesting solution of the three. During the poll of the final 3 levels, it seemed a clear winner. Now it tied. If I had to guess a downside ... maybe it's less elegant than the other two because it relies on more complex mechanics (permanent skill removers)? Maybe the solution is a tad too hard to find? Doesn't matter, lovely level, and a deserved top place.

It's Crazy Sports Day: At first, I was surprised to see it do so well. I had already seen all its tricks elsewhere. But in hindsight, it makes sense. It's a backroute-free showcase of several different tricks and it needs both planning and insight.

Industrial Incident is a classic case of hiding a simple solution in plain sight. Nothing is distracting, nothing is unfair, and yet it takes time to solve.

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I had soft spots for these:

Armani's Underroot. I may have a soft spot for the rock tileset in general, but there is more here. One technical trick, and you feel that the entire level is made to support it. Before you know the trick, everything looks beautiful -- the visuals reminds me of Utopia by Pieuw -- and after you see the trick, it's beautiful and functional.

Icho's Tower of Sacrifice. The closest relative may be Geoffster's Parking Garage, doing everything with terrain removers when it looks like you need blockers and builders.

The Split by Dexter. Looks beautiful. Has a nice mix of easy pattern recognition and serious planning to tie the solution together.

All 4 maps by Giga. After you memorize what gadget does what, you get interesting puzzles every time. Lawful Neutral I liked the most.

Building, Fencing by Dexter. A well-hidden fair solution.

Crane's A Step Down With Difficulty, kaywhyn's Organic National Park, Armani's Let's Go Spelunking (after removing the horrible glare from the torch).

-- Simon

Hello VorticonCmdr, and welcome to the Forums since I hadn't said that yet. 

I've spotted some graphics and sound issues, and apologies if this seems nitpicky; I read the documents to check what you were and weren't aware of. First, the EGA graphics. The terrain colors are slightly different to how they appear in-game, and the lemming and object colors are completely and totally wrong, and I can see exactly how this happened! Colors 0-7 in the palette ARE the standard colors (except color 7) shared across all graphics sets (though it is absolutely correct that they aren't the low-intensity CGA palette). That 16-byte copy you mention does NOT copy starting from the offset that you label "ega_custom" and copies through to the end of "ega_standard"; it copies from "ega_standard" through the array that you labeled "ega_preview", because those "ega_preview" colors are actually the colors used in the levels. The "ega_preview" entries in the dirt set example match up with the terrain colors seen in-game (screenshot below), and it only contains CGA colors, which is important since EGA does NOT support non-CGA colors in 200-line video modes, which Lemmings uses during a level; thus the "ega_custom" colors could not possibly be used in a level.



Now for the AdLib sound. It's pretty good overall, but the tick rate for the music driver isn't correct. player.asm's timing loop simply is not accurate to what the actual game does. As far as I know, in all cases EXCEPT when running VGALEMMI with the "For High Performance PCs" or "For an IBM PS/2 Machine" options selected, the game programs the PIT to fire at a rate of 72.8261 Hz, which it uses to help throttle the gameplay speed, and the music is also driven at that rate. (The aforementioned exceptions seem to synchronize with the VGA video rate(?) independent of the PIT, which results in the music playing very slightly slower, but I am NOT an expert on how the High Performance mode works, so take that with a grain of salt.)

Next, the Tandy sound. The actual game uses the same 72.8261 Hz tick rate to drive the Tandy sound as it does to drive the AdLib sound. Additionally, the PSG clock speed is also incorrect, specifically half as fast compared to what it should be. There's some significant sequencing issues in the Tandy player as well, resulting in extreme desync and misplaced effects, though I imagine you're aware of that even if I didn't catch any explicit mention of that in your document. I also notice, thanks to Lemmings Tune 18, that the software PSG is using more than 10 bits for the period of the square channels, as that tune attempts to play notes that would require an 11-bit period to play, resulting in garbage pitches on the real chip as the most significant bit is discarded. Don't ask me why the tuning table contains 11-bit periods in the first place.

Finally, the PC Speaker sound. First of all, I had no idea there were unused sounds in the PC Speaker driver, so it was very cool to listen to them. However, the sounds seem to play much too fast. This is easiest to hear with Patch 12, which is triggered in-game when a lemming explodes (recording below). Unfortunately in this case, I'm not entirely sure what the tick rate should be; the driver certainly isn't getting called at 72.8261 Hz, as that would make the sounds play even faster. Sorry!



Hope this is helpful at all!

Hi guys!

I've been playing Lemmings since the 90s, and a couple years ago I stumbled upon WinLems and started building custom levels and experimenting with it, even rebuilding and reimagining some of the ONML levels and a few from YouTubers.

I can't think of a better place to share some of my .dat files, and I'd love to know if there are any other WinLems builders here that would like to share some levels too!

I attached some pictures to give an idea of my builds

        

After playtest, I can say that the level has some interesting twist in it. It has a regular solution which is quite open-ended, and three talismans which makes it almost 4 levels in one.

Bronze talisman is a neat solution that took me too much time to find.
Silver talisman is a strict timer one, it has at least 2 solutions and is not that hard.
Gold talisman has a more lenient timer but requires using more parts of the level, I found a neat solution too which requires using those blockers effectively, there are certainly other ones as UGO said mine was not exactly intended.

In the end it is a pleasant level with many things to think about, good job for a first try 

Thanks for the update WillLem. I must confess I get very confused with all the different versions of Java, why can't they just make one! lol.

Thanks for updating the menus and yes I can confirm that it is now fixed and looks great.

All the best my friend and thanks again.

Hi Simon, thanks for the great feedback. To be honest 2-player came after the fact I noticed that I now have everything needed to implement it. You gave me a lot to think about.

Glad to know it's all sorted.

I've posted in the release topic to let users know they need to update to Java 26 - in some cases, this alone won't do it and it's necessary to first uninstall the old Java version. The wonders of Java!

@manic23 - Let me know if the menu icons and text appear correctly for you following this update.

All best.

Java Exception Issues

Hi all.

The codebase for RetroLemmini 3.2.1 has been updated to Java 26.0.2. It is strongly recommended that you update your Java version in order to run RetroLemmini.

Download the latest version of Java here.

I'm aware that one or two users have been met with a generic Java exception when running RetroLemmini 3.2.1 from the .jar executable:



Thankfully, the fix for this is easy:

1) Go to Windows > Settings > Apps > Installed Apps and search for 'Java'
2) Uninstall all Java SE Runtime Environments and Development Kits that show up in the list
3) Re-install the latest version of Java from the link above

This should fix the problem. If it doesn't, please PM me or post a topic to let me know.

All best,

Will