Taronoid - W.I.P

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Taronoid alpha 0.99l

What's new:

rope charged
Left and right side are independently discharging, while a ball hit on the paddle charges them both. Four paddle hits result in one bounce on a rope.

new designs
Background bricks now start off at old basement style rockwalls, illustrating that we're moving through the structure from the cellar up.

Rope charge meters show up on the left and right of the frame.

new window code
I finally bought the MAXgui to have some more control over the window, but still have some troubles with the focus, if I don't first run a conventional graphics window. Why? I have no clue, but any help is welcome. If I just open the new window gadget it somehow can't get the mouse into it? Obviously I'm doing something wrong, but - again - I have no clue what exactly.

The cool part, however, is that I'm having a smaller gadget than the window, allowing me to have a frame around the whole game other than the shitty windows title. I wished I could control the outline of it with an alpha, but even that I couldn't figure out, yet. (I mean, I bought it yesterday, I think). My brain's cooking over... 8P

random improvements
I've done a number on improvements on collisions and some other smaller things. While it's all still a little flimsy, it's more and more becoming acceptable (hope,hope!?).