Re: [Enigma-devel] unexpected behaviour of turnstile and lasers

[Ronald Lamprecht]

Hi,

Johannes Huesing wrote:
> Hi all,
> in the following situation:
> 3 
>   +e
>   
> where the plus sign is a turnstile with an arm pointing eastwards and the
> 3 is a laser firing eastwards, when I push the turnstile arm from below I
> lose a life, but I can safely pass the turnstile with a second life because
> now the turnstile arm blocks the laser.
>
> This behaviour is not quite intuitive to me. If the laser light is blocked  
> it should be from the first moment. After all, the ball does not enter the 
> beam before the turnstyle does.

You must be speaking of Enigma 1.01 - the laser "item" at the north-east 
edge was not removed on turnstile rotations and the marble did shatter 
on the remaining laser beam item.

> Are there any levels that depend on this behaviour? Otherwise I would not
> mind if the turnstyle would block a laser's path from the first instance.

This is clearly a bug of all Enigma releases up to 1.01. I did correct 
this misfeature while reengineering the laser beam this spring.

As a level author you may want to check and perhaps start using the last 
milestone release of 1.10:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/enigma-devel/2008-07/msg00016.html

and

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/enigma-devel/2008-08/msg00007.html

Greets,

Ronald