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Originally written by Dahak:


1) Tint the side bar icons just as they are tinted in 3D mode.

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* Small pictures of the items and creatures next to their names in the menus. Finding these things would be much easier with images than with just text.

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Originally written by Dahak:


1) Tint the side bar icons just as they are tinted in 3D mode.

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* Small pictures of the items and creatures next to their names in the menus. Finding these things would be much easier with images than with just text.

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Originally written by Notus:

I agree to remake it from scratch and use a cross-platform framework.

I don't know so much about cross-platform frameworks, but I suppose it'll provide so-called application framework, like MacApp, PowerPlant and MFC. It'll reduce our labor on the event dispatch, mouse/keyboard handling, menu, dialog and components on the main window such as tool/item palettes. Do you have any recommendation on a cross-platform framework?

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As for the file I/O, "port", endian conversion on the datafork is incomplete in most case. It doesn't care about resources. A standalone utility for cross-platform data converter is desirable.
Resource fork of Mac .cmg file will be temporally converted to .rsrc (Resource Manager-style resources) with StuffIt expander when a .sit file is expanded on Windows. This means we can make a data converter from Mac to Win using .sit file even on Windows.

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In most of data classes, especially data saved in .bas file (scenario_data_type, outdoor_record_type, town_record_type, big_tr_type, ave_tr_type, tiny_tr_type) unsigned char is used. This reduces performance on the execution speed. Nowadays, PC has plenty of RAM. Saving a several hundred KByte memory is nonsense. These data types should be the natural size (int) for CPU. Even if we changes the data size, we only need dedicated serializing method for file I/O. Then we can freely add members to these classes. For example, adding two member variable, type and size, big_tr_type, ave_tr_type and tiny_tr_type are represented by one class. This will encapslate so many conditional branch on the source code.

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On graphic routines, the problem is more serious. Even the basic data types are different on PC and Mac. Not only the size of data but the order of members.
a) Use only common data types defined explicitly on the source code in most of routine, except a several wrapper routines for porting.
b) Do not use simple utility routines provided by the operating system, such as InflateRect(), PtInRect(). Make a compatible one on the source code.

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Originally written by Notus:

I agree to remake it from scratch and use a cross-platform framework.

I don't know so much about cross-platform frameworks, but I suppose it'll provide so-called application framework, like MacApp, PowerPlant and MFC. It'll reduce our labor on the event dispatch, mouse/keyboard handling, menu, dialog and components on the main window such as tool/item palettes. Do you have any recommendation on a cross-platform framework?

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As for the file I/O, "port", endian conversion on the datafork is incomplete in most case. It doesn't care about resources. A standalone utility for cross-platform data converter is desirable.
Resource fork of Mac .cmg file will be temporally converted to .rsrc (Resource Manager-style resources) with StuffIt expander when a .sit file is expanded on Windows. This means we can make a data converter from Mac to Win using .sit file even on Windows.

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In most of data classes, especially data saved in .bas file (scenario_data_type, outdoor_record_type, town_record_type, big_tr_type, ave_tr_type, tiny_tr_type) unsigned char is used. This reduces performance on the execution speed. Nowadays, PC has plenty of RAM. Saving a several hundred KByte memory is nonsense. These data types should be the natural size (int) for CPU. Even if we changes the data size, we only need dedicated serializing method for file I/O. Then we can freely add members to these classes. For example, adding two member variable, type and size, big_tr_type, ave_tr_type and tiny_tr_type are represented by one class. This will encapslate so many conditional branch on the source code.

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On graphic routines, the problem is more serious. Even the basic data types are different on PC and Mac. Not only the size of data but the order of members.
a) Use only common data types defined explicitly on the source code in most of routine, except a several wrapper routines for porting.
b) Do not use simple utility routines provided by the operating system, such as InflateRect(), PtInRect(). Make a compatible one on the source code.

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For others - Does the root of evil necessarily have to be evil itself? I would argue that sapience/sentience is not.

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Originally written by Thuryl:


Surely a universally acceptable definition of "good" and "evil", if only we could agree on one, would amount to just that?

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4. Ideas of moral relations. Fourthly, There is another sort of relation, which is the conformity or disagreement men's voluntary actions have to a rule to which they are referred, and by which they are judged of; which, I think, may be called moral relation, as being that which denominates our moral actions, and deserves well to be examined; there being no part of knowledge wherein we should be more careful to get determined ideas, and avoid, as much as may be, obscurity and confusion. Human actions, when with their various ends, objects, manners, and circumstances, they are framed into distinct complex ideas, are, as has been shown so many mixed modes, a great part whereof have names annexed to them. Thus, supposing gratitude to be a readiness to acknowledge and return kindness received; polygamy to be the having more wives than one at once: when we frame these notions thus in our minds, we have there so many determined ideas of mixed modes. But this is not all that concerns our actions: it is not enough to have determined ideas of them, and to know what names belong to such and such combinations of ideas. We have a further and greater concernment, and that is, to know whether such actions, so made up, are morally good or bad.

5. Moral good and evil. Good and evil, as hath been shown, (Bk. II. chap. xx. SS 2, and chap. xxi. SS 43,) are nothing but pleasure or pain, or that which occasions or procures pleasure or pain to us. Moral good and evil, then, is only the conformity or disagreement of our voluntary actions to some law, whereby good or evil is drawn on us, from the will and power of the law-maker; which good and evil, pleasure or pain, attending our observance or breach of the law by the decree of the lawmaker, is that we call reward and punishment.

6. Moral rules. Of these moral rules or laws, to which men generally refer, and by which they judge of the rectitude or pravity of their actions, there seem to me to be three sorts, with their three different enforcements, or rewards and punishments. For, since it would be utterly in vain to suppose a rule set to the free actions of men, without annexing to it some enforcement of good and evil to determine his will, we must, wherever we suppose a law, suppose also some reward or punishment annexed to that law. It would be in vain for one intelligent being to set a rule to the actions of another, if he had it not in his power to reward the compliance with, and punish deviation from his rule, by some good and evil, that is not the natural product and consequence of the action itself For that, being a natural convenience or inconvenience, would operate of itself, without a law. This, if I mistake not, is the true nature of all law, properly so called.

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Originally written by KernelKnowledge12:
I assume it is currently accepted that Hobbes' definition of good/evil is correct.

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I don't know where you would get an idea like this, but no, it's not, really. There have been a few hundred years of thought since him that have been spent supporting, refuting, and ignoring him. If there's one broad generalization one can make about the state of philosophy and moral thought, it's that there is no consensus, like, at all.

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Originally written by Bad-Ass Mother Custer:

I refuse to acknowledge anything Hobbes says as correct, for instance. I refuse to have any truck whatsoever with his damnedable social contract, and I'm sure as hell not going to drop to my knees and start beating off because the poor are not directly subject to the hungering of wolves.

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Originally writtwn by Thuryl:
For me, the problem with Hobbes's definitions is that while they may be adequate for what ethicists like to call natural good and evil, they fail to capture the concept which many people have of moral good and evil. (I don't happen to draw a distinction between the two, but I'm very much in the minority there, and language is a democracy.)

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John Locke, "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding", Book II, Chapter 28:

5. Moral good and evil. Good and evil, as hath been shown, (Bk. II. chap. xx. SS 2, and chap. xxi. SS 43,) are nothing but pleasure or pain, or that which occasions or procures pleasure or pain to us. Moral good and evil, then, is only the conformity or disagreement of our voluntary actions to some law, whereby good or evil is drawn on us, from the will and power of the law-maker; which good and evil, pleasure or pain, attending our observance or breach of the law by the decree of the lawmaker, is that we call reward and punishment.

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Thomas Hobbes, "The Elements of Law", Chapter 7

"8. There are few things in this world, but either have a mixture of good and evil, or there is a chain of them so necessarily linked together, that the one cannot be taken without the other, as for example: the pleasures of sin, and the bitterness of punishment, are inseparable; as are also labour and honour, for the most part. Now when in the whole chain, the greater part is good, the whole is called good; and when the evil over-weigheth, the whole is called evil."

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Originally written by SkeleTony:

"God" cannot exist for the same reason that round squares cannot exist. SOmething cannot be both 'A' and 'Not A' at once.

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Originally written by A Cool Half Million:

The root of all evil lies within the human spirit; it is the tendency to extremes- extremes of emotion and obsession with material goods and pleasures, among other things.

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