manual Todolist

BUGS

These should be fixed as soon as possible as they crash the binary or seriously affect gameplay.

Bug:

* [5] news video is not clipped, green band appears (pace, linux).

Bug:

* [3] aipur.c(RDafford):562, class == 2 && MaxRD == 80 && Safety == 90 (???).

NOT IMPLEMENTED

Features present in the original BARIS but not implemented or not working properly in Race Into Space.

Todo:

* [5] Autosave does work, but reloading the game after failures does not bring back the prestige lost (look at president's ranking).

Todo:

* [5] Configuration option for still images instead of videos (do we need it?)

ENCHANCEMENTS

Incremental enchancements that would improve quality of software but do not change anything considered essential to playability. This includes code refactoring as well.

Todo:

* [9] Reduce dependencies between game logic and game engine.

Todo:

* [5] Remove temporary files on exit.

Todo:

* [5] Remove extra gr_sync calls.

Todo:

* [5] Preload next frame during mission playback.

Todo:

* [5] Newscaster animations and sounds should be better synced.

Todo:

* [5] Music is too loud during newscasts (pace, linux)

Todo:

* [5] Bar graphs during mission tests pause audio and video.

Todo:

* [5] Baby pictures shown on missions are downsampled and upsampled.

Todo:

* [3] Optimize grPutPixel and grGetPixel (I'm not sure it's needed)

Todo:

* [3] Clipping in gx* routines.

EXTENSIONS

Improvements that might change rules and/or gameplay balance.

Plenty of them, just look at http://www.baris-online.net/wiki/index.php/Enhancements

CODE REFACTORING

Todo:

* [9] Comment undocumented game-logic structures.

Todo:

* [7] Remove "magic numbers" (at least as many as possible).

Todo:

* [7] Reduce number and visibility of global variables, rename some.

Todo:

* [7] Move game strings into a separate string table or file.

Todo:

* [5] Clean up header files, separate functionality.

Todo:

* [5] Factor video display code out from mis_c.c and replay.c

OTHER IDEAS

Todo:

* Release checklist: valgrind, electric fence, CFLAGS=-O2 -DNDEBUG Everything that does not fit into previous sections.

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