TABSAT VS PixelVision8

I've encountered it myself for my own public FOSS programs, even the same Wacatac trojan claimed for a .Net app rather than Python. That time the older version of the public updates-checking library was depreciated into flagging as likely suspect, while the latest fixed it. Defender is dumb in this regard.

I suppose you could try TABSAT https://github.com/DaneelTrevize/TABSAT. I haven’t tried it myself, but supposedly it lets you modify stuff like the number of mutants and giants so you could get rid of them.

If you want to play classic no-Mutants 800%, you can edit a save to remove them via 0% population count scaling, or turn them all into Giants, or move the nearby ones to distant ones.

Do you have any way to access the save file path/contents? A quick googling indicates GFN could be syncing with your Steam Cloud, so your laptop could run a local copy of Steam TAB enough to retrieve the saves when loading the main menu, and then you could use TABSAT to regenerate the check file.

I made TABSAT so that players can extract and modify save files, the manual modification feature should help in this regard.

Latest version available at: https://github.com/DaneelTrevize/TABSAT/releases TABSAT Log: 2023/04/04 14.49.16.311 - You are running the latest released version, TABSAT v1.4.2 2023/04/04 14.49.26.326 - Extracted save file: C:\Users\Baba\Documents\My Games\They Are Billions\Saves\shock.zxsav 2023/04/04 14.49.26.412 - Error while extracting or modifying the save: System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array. at TABSAT.SaveReader.generateNavigableData(Int32 res) at TABSAT.SaveReader.getLayerData(MapLayers layer) at TABSAT.SaveReader..ctor(String filesPath) at TABSAT.SaveEditor..ctor(String filesPath) at TABSAT.ModifyManager.getSaveEditor() at TABSAT.ModifyManagerControls.modifyExtractedSave() at TABSAT.ModifyManagerControls.modifySave_DoWork(Object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e) at System.ComponentModel.BackgroundWorker.OnDoWork(DoWorkEventArgs e) at System.ComponentModel.BackgroundWorker.WorkerThreadStart(Object argument)

TABSAT automates making copies of your saves and easily restoring them. Just have it enabled and then either depend on the game's schedule of autosaving or exit and resume a game to force a save to be generated, to be copied in the background.

FYI I just released a new version of TABSAT, to help automate TAB saves management.

Sprites in Power Vision 8 are all 8x8 pixels in size, when your game starts up the file "sprites.png" is loaded and chopped up in to 8x8 images. Each of these images is then loaded into the memory of the sprite chip until it runs out of space. Each sprite is given an index number at load time (starting from 0) and you can use that index to fetch a particular sprite.

We don't talk enough about how much it "costs" to work on large open-source projects by yourself. I summed up my experiences building Pixel Vision 8 for the past 6 years in "The Dark Side of Supporting an Open-Source Project" on u/hashnode - https://jessefreeman.hashnode.dev/the-dark-side-of-supporting-an-open-source-project

Space Station 8 is a Micro Platformer created in 72 hours for Ludum Dare 49 based on a game I used to play on my original Macintosh called Spacestation Pheta. Space Station 8 is also heavily inspired by Bitsy and my Fantasy Console, Pixel Vision 8, which I used to create the game.

I have been working on my game engine, Pixel Vision 8, for the better part of 6 years now. One of the challenges of working on any sizeable open source project is writing all the documentation and tutorials. I've always been fascinated with designing automated build systems, and it occurred to me that I could create a tool to help me streamline this entire process. The idea was straightforward, could I analyze a code file and break it down into individual steps?