Thank you LanaAndCo,
I'm actually quite familiar with Lemmini; I found it about a year or so ago, and really enjoyed it's attempt to bring the Windows 95 Lemmings look to modern engine. I was so enthralled by it that I started work porting it to .net, so I could add features in an environment I'm more comfortable with. I soon abandoned that from lack of time.
I introduced Lemmini to my kids, and they've really enjoyed playing Lemmings for the first time, through it.
It was only a couple weeks ago or so that I stumbled upon SuperLemmini (and the other clones/ports). SuperLemmini has so many things built on top of Lemmini that I would love to switch over to it, but a couple minor things make it a show-stopper for me (mainly the lack of bomber countdown, but partly also the tiny default cursor).
I saw Tsyu say he was going to add that back in in a future version, but I also saw that he hasn't posted in a few months, so I figured what the heck, why not take a run at it myself. I've always preferred an active role if possible, rather than just waiting. Maybe I'd be lucky and it would be an easy fix.
Unfortunately, for the little amount I've poked around the code, it
looks like he didn't just set the default timer start to 0 as I'd hoped, but ripped out the timer code for bombers entirely. When I tried adding it back in, from Lemini's code, it wasn't enough... a countdown would only start if they were in the process of falling... otherwise, instant explode. So, it'll take more time to figure out exactly what needs to be added back in, and where.
WillLem, maybe there are only a handful of differences/bugfixes from an end-user standpoint, but from what I've seen comparing both code bases there are hundreds if not thousands of tiny changes all throughout the code. It would definately be a whole lot easier/quicker to revert the bombers if I had the source code from only a revision or two back. Hence my reaching out.
I'm not super knowledgeable in Java (as I said, my strength is .net), but I know some stuff. I'm not opposed to diving in, but there's only so many hours in a day, and so many things to spend one's time on.
Thanks for welcoming me to the forum. It's really cool to find other Lemmings fans, and a community like this.