ENIGMA Development Environment

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As of Enigma r234, the LateralGM included with Enigma now has the ability to save in the GM7 and GM8 formats (gmk).
Please note that support for these formats is experimental at this state, and may do any of the following:

• Error on saving a GM file.
  
• Error on loading a normal GM file.
  
• Produce corrupted GM files.
  
• Be able to read the corrupted GM files it produced.
  
• Not be able to read the GM files it produced.
  
• Screw up some resource data, but not corrupt the GM file.
  
• Cause data loss during a conversion process between any two versions. (This is intended behavior, since different versions support different feature sets, so some features may be lost between two versions)
  

If you experience any of these problems, or any other problems, with the exception of the last one listed (seeing as it is intended behavior), first do an svn update to ensure that a later revision doesn't fix them, and then you may report them in this post. Remember, they are LGM bugs, and NOT Enigma bugs.


If you don't want to use the experimental features, simply choose "600" when saving your file, and the behavior should remain mostly the same as it was before these features - always saving as GM6.


One of the biggest benefits expected to come out of this is the ability to use alpha transparency in sprites in 800 (GM8: gmk).

scmhub

I'd like to see Enigma stuff documented, and in a more centralized location. That is to say, "searching the forums to see where feature X is explained and debated" does not count.

Some things that need documenting:
Scope. Especially since I apparently can't use global.myvar, and had to find that out the hard way.
Typing.
Global Locals supported, and how much they are supported. E.g. the fact that direction, speed, hspeed and vspeed are all linked up, but they are not linked up to x/y.
Other intended differences between Enigma and GM not selectable by an option in the options pane.

Why keep anything?
Just let anarchy rule the world!

Slippery slope fallacy.

Getting rid of copyright makes sense with software as well, although it's much less of a problem than patents.

Agreed.

Why even keep copyrights? Why not just get rid of those as well? There's no evidence to show that patents or copyrights are at all effective for what they're designed for; something about inspiring innovation or some such nonsense. If anything, there's a fair bit of evidence to the contrary - showing that patents and copyrights usher stagnation and a great deal of money lost on defending patent/copyright lawsuits rather than using that money to innovate.

We're talking about a zip file.