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And lots of fixes went in today because Shu went out of his heat wave for a day... ! It's always more efficient to have someone else to look for bugs!

Back to the subject of this thread:
https://raine.1emulation.com/archive/csb/csb.png

This is a picture of the beginning of DMCoE with csb. See the text at the bottom ? True type font, with a slider to be able to scroll up to previous messages.
Useful for this kind of dungeon with lots of texts ...

Play testing in the end game in dm, and as usual I missed a lot of attacks against the stone golems. So this time I investigated and discovered it was because my character was not fast enough, it's linked to dexterity. So I decided to add an experimental overlay text interface to be able to display ...

Cycl0ne wrote: Wed Jul 29, 2026 9:46 pm Oh wow. Shu is Japanese?

Totally, and between this and a heat wave where a gets 37°C for inside temperature even with air conditioning during the day, he has quite a hard time currently... !

Some news from Shu (it's not him on the video).
https://raine.1emulation.com/archive/csb/m71.mp4

This is the new format:
http://dmweb.free.fr/community/document ... rdinates/

and this is the old format CSB is using from DM V1.2:
http://dmweb.free.fr/community/document ... -item-558/


dm2 stuff... Are you working with Sphenx ? Anyway I don't really understand why you see the dm2 way of ...

Since Shu is quite unavailable for now because of an earth quake and a heat wave, if somebody wants to test this build:
http://raine.1emulation.com/archive/csb/csb32.7z

That's the 32 bit binary for Shu, I'll build the 64 bit one when this thing will have had some testing.
Some info about what's ...

Cycl0ne wrote: Tue Jul 28, 2026 10:02 am The problem i have with the csb is, that it is based on an old version of DM, the newer Versions use LAY1 structure for placing all Graphics into the screen. Making modding easier.

If you have more info about this, I am interested...

Grrr, and I am playing the postmaster here again, well guys you'll have to use email if this continues. Anyway, here is the reply from Shu:

Hi Cycl0ne.

Here are the answers to your questions.

The files included in ReDM.7z are the following three:

csbgame.dat, dungeon.dat, and graphics.dat ...

It's been a few months but thanks for all these updates, this is very interesting.

How did you get in contact with Shu to start working on this together by the way? I'm in Japan but I feel like I rarely ever cross paths with anyone interested in digging into the source of old games, even though I ...

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Thanks for ...

Why can't we quote a message for a reply here ? Sorry for the delay, been busy elsewhere and since usually this forum is dead I don't come often...

Shu is a special case, he reads this forum, but he is not a member, he contacted me by mail after seeing my 1st attempts to improve csb. He doesn't ...

The git repository was updated at the end of august to be able to play custom sounds from dungeons like conflux3. Since this problem was never reported here, I guess you won't need a binary update for that, good thing. I might post one later, but I don't know when. For now only the 32 bits version ...

Some work from Shu for those curious : he made some updated graphics.dat with a more modern style but while still keeping the dm normal stats.
In the archive there is also a test level in a savegame, csbgame.dat to test some csb features like projectile damage, but as I said since there is no way to ...

The end of this thread with your experimental linux build by private message then, it looks interesting at least !

Oh I didn't see you have a github page too, I might take a look later, but the weather is too warm for that now, plus it's a windows only version which won't make things easy for me so no promise !
(hotmail still exists ? and it's not full of spam ?)

Never used wsl, since I have a native linux install I don't really see any reason to, plus you have to be motivated to make this to work, good to know it works well, I guess it's to be expected since it's supposed to be a "light virtual machine". For the leaks from libasan there are always some, at ...

Yeah the font is the only file needed in its directory, I didn't think about that, it should have a fallback for when there is no font in its directory. Anyway you can find the fonts directory in one of the archives I posted for the binaries. I just added a workaround in git for that, it will use a ...

For SDL_GetDefaultAudioInfo, it was added to SDL-2.24.0, which was released on august 19, 2022 ! If you are using debian, you should use testing which is a rolling distribution, everything is always updated all the time, much better than having a package outdated for 3 years now. Or Arch is a ...

Yeah I'd say it's a way to learn how the source works, which is not easy since it's converted from a 68000 disassembly listing originally, with some edits, but not a lot finally, even the ST video ram with its planes, its 16 colors and its 3 palette changes is emulated !
Plus it's fun, I have been ...

Is it worth posting updates to this thread again ? Yeah that's the question considering the very few replies it got, almost nothing. Anyway whatever idea we have for csb after that it will probably take more time so I will probably not post here for quite while more.

A last post to tell you about ...

Ok, here is the last update for quite a while, I'll need a break to think over where to go from here, plus Roland Garros is starting this week-end and it's a big source of distraction!

This time the update is mainly centered on getting more info from the game...

Anyway some quite big changes again ...

The big news of this week is the return of the menu with a gui, but in a new form, it's imgui from there : https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
The special thing here is that the gui is rendered in the screen real resolution when the game remains in its scaled 320x200 picture, so you'll see the mouse ...

No problem thanks!
Most of the ideas are exchanged by mail between mainly Shu (from Japan, but in english) and me at the moment. There are still good things to come!
I might take a look later at dungeoncrawlers.org but for now I am a little busy with this... !
Also too bad for me that I didn't ...

Since this forum is sadly half dead, got only 1 reply except the one from Christophe in all that time, I won't keep on posting every day, not more than once/week now, except in case of an astounding bug!

So here is the update for this week in chronological order since the fix for the freeze bug ...

And a bonus for today because of the report from Christophe :
- resizing the window is now immediate, and it works even in the 1st screen with the 4 buttons before the dungeon
- restoring an iconified window works in linux
- build date inserted in windows's title so you can check quickly I didn't ...

Back to a super slow forum already...

And the daily binary, it should be the last for a while because the sound part seems finished for now :
- added the last missing sounds for moving monsters : pain rat and ruster. And fixed vexirks which are actually levitating so it makes their sound called from another place.
- fixed the sound ...

Ok, I won't post a new binary everyday, but I met Shu online today and from our exchanges a few more bugs were fixed, so...
- limit sounds of moving monsters to 1 level above or below, previously there was no limit at all! Found by Shu 1st, but I was starting to suspect something too... !
- Sounds ...

Since there is no way to edit a post, here is a new post for the 32 bit version for those who are interested, I just received an email from a japanese guy stuck with vista 32 bits on a laptop and he would need a 32 bit version. Not sure sdl2 will be fully compatible with vista though, but it's worth ...