Finished Too short for me but worth to play.
Final battle screen for you and now I am going to “taste” Hordes of Underdark.

… when you define a value type (structure) it’s a good idea to override System.Object’s virtual methods - ToString, Equals and GetHash. If you don’t, the framework will perform “boxing” when calling these methods. It can significantly slow your application.

... that simple strings concatenating in C# can have impact on memory usage?
Let's look at this simple code:

This causes that the compiler creates 3 additional strings on the stack, then garbage collector must clean it. Only the last string has a reference. If you make something like this very often in a loop consider using string's Concat or Join methods. StringBuilder is also a good choice.

Once upon a time...
... it was a beautiful, shiny CRT monitor - NEC to be precise. This monitor has served great for many years.
And several days ago, his Master (me :D) decided to clean it. Nothing special.
But Master didn't choose the right way. He took "Special German Cleaner"... for glasses

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Today I created my first binary package for Slackware Linux. You can find it at http://www.sirmike.org/slackware-linux
I will put there some other packages in the future. Stay tuned