Indices by map size

[GooRoo]

I believe I have completed two new indices:

• Maps smaller than 32 tiles wide or 24 tiles tall
• Maps exactly 32 tiles wide by 24 tiles tall (full screen at maximum screen resolution)
• If it is not listed above, the maps are larger than 32 tiles wide or 24 tiles tall

Which led me to ask this question. Has anyone with a high resolution monitor tried to achieve a screen resolution larger than 1024 pixels wide by 768 pixels tall for the Gruntz game?

If so, did you succeed? And how did you do it?

[GooRoo]

BTW, I am using the Alphabetical Order indices (updating them, as needed) to create these three indices by map size. I have completed the numbered maps, and the maps beginning with 'A', and am currently working on maps beginning with 'B' as I am posting this. I will upload the three to the web host in about an hour (my lunchtime) for users to view.

[GooRoo]

After completing Custom Level Questz with names beginning with 'C' it has become obvious (even to me!) that an index of map sizes larger than 32 tiles wide by 24 tiles tall is superfluous. The vast majority of maps are larger then 32X24, so anyone could view the 'smaller' and 'exactly' indices, and if a puzzle name does not appear there, it is larger than 32X24.

So I am discontinuing the updating of the 'larger' index.

[swietymiki]

1024x768 is the highest resolution the game was programmed for. I tried changing it with the Registry Editor by giving a different value to the "Resolution" entry and there are only 3 valid options: 1, 2 and 3 (from lowest to highest resolution). Putting anything else (like 4) reverts the value to 1 and the game launches in the lowest resolution. So there is no way to make it larger without messing with the game's code.

And if the "larger than 32x24" index is going to get discontinued, then I think it would be better to remove it entirely than leave it with only a small part of correct entries, like it is right now.

[GooRoo]

In 'Criteria' for Announcements there are recommendations for designating size, as 'Very Small', 'Small', 'Medium', 'Big' and 'Huge'. Do you think there would be any value in expanding 'LargerThan...' into 'Medium' through 'Huge' indices?

That would be a very large effort, as I am finding just 2 indices and using the alphabetical indices as sources to already lead this Old Geezer to confusion. Especially when Microsoft does an update which restores the TouchPad, and my clumsy thunb moves the cursor around to places I never intended!

[swietymiki]

I don't think it would give many benefits in comparison to the time one needs to spend to segregate all the different sizes. Battlez could be added to the existing indices, though there would be very few of them.

Levels smaller than 32x24 basically equal the "Very Small" category and that is the most important because only these levels reset the game's resolution.

[GooRoo]

May 19, 2018 7:21:33 GMT -8 swietymiki said:

I don't think it would give many benefits in comparison to the time one needs to spend to segregate all the different sizes. Battlez could be added to the existing indices, though there would be very few of them.

Levels smaller than 32x24 basically equal the "Very Small" category and that is the most important because only these levels reset the game's resolution.

That is the same conclusion I arrived at ... that the maps which would force screen resolution back to the default minimum size of 680 pixels by 480 pixels would be of most interest.

Yet the 1024X768 (32X24 tiles) maps are also important (to me) because they can actually be played (with but little annoyance) on a 64-bit Windows 10 computer, and it is likely that there are many Gruntzerz who have the same problems that I have. Problems that have been introduced by the 'improvements' in the Windows Operating System since Windows 98 (under which Gruntz was developed).

We should all give thanks that there are young bucks with the desire and ability to produce work-arounds to the limitations technological progress have introduced into legacy programs (such as Gruntz).

[Wedrikul]

Hey there!
I'm still checking the forums once a month or so and I noticed you missed 2 of my levels in the 32x24 indices...
The maps are:
Shooting Experience
The Faster The Better

If you missed them completely, you might want to check them out and complete them on perfect 

[GooRoo]

May 25, 2018 10:39:29 GMT -8 Wedrikul said:

Hey there!
I'm still checking the forums once a month or so and I noticed you missed 2 of my levels in the 32x24 indices...
The maps are:
Shooting Experience
The Faster The Better

If you missed them completely, you might want to check them out and complete them on perfect 

Perhaps those two are ones where my original 'Alt' text was incorrect, making them part of the (unreported) "larger than 32X24" maps. Or they were missed during the creation of the Alphabetical 'S' and 'T' indices, from which I gathered the sizing information. I will update the 'exactly' index ... and the 'S' and 'T' indices, if necessary.