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[TheRuler]

Il testimone del MI2 Speech project, passa ad ezekiel000... che sembra voler partire con il doppiaggio di Monkey 1...

[TheRuler]

Alcuni di voi lo conosceranno già.
Questo è un sito dedicato alla scena degli sviluppatori dei vari engine di ScummVM. Un aggregato costantemente aggiornato dei blog personali dei componenti il team.

http://planet.scummvm.org/


Intanto fra i tools di compressione è spuntato anche quello per comprimere i 1000 mila files audio di TUCKER (gioco che manco conoscevo... e che spero qualcuno di voi abbia):

compress_tucker
Used to compress .wav files from FX/MUSIC/SPEECH directories
to a single file named TUCKER.SOx

Once compressed, the 3 directories aren't required to play
the game under ScummVM.

adoro gli scummVM tools...

[TheRuler]

Ufficiale l'aggiunta di Bud Tucker!

Do not fall into Double Trouble!

You're a pizza delivery boy and you're in trouble. Now it is your goal to stop Dick Tate, before the whole world is filled with his evil clones!

Now you can follow this funny story with ScummVM. We recently added support for Bud Tucker in Double Trouble and as usual you're encouraged to playtest it with a daily build, report all encountered bugs to our bug tracker and submit some nice screenshots.

[TheRuler]

Ufficiale il supporto di The 7th guest!!!

Henry Stauf cordially invites you to come and sample the delights of his house in the newest game to be supported by ScummVM, The 7th Guest. A delightful evening is guaranteed to be had by you and the other guests.

You will need a copy of the game (DOS and Windows versions only, for now), and a newly-downloaded daily build of ScummVM. And, of course, your wits about you.

Please report any unwanted annoyances (i.e. bugs) to the ScummVM bug tracker. If you find any particularly beautiful sights while you're there, be sure to submit them as screenshots.

P.S. There are some slight complications involved in copying the game to the hard drive, due to there being audio tracks on both CDs. The information on how to get round this is on the 7th Guest wiki page, as well as a few known issues, so be sure to read it fully.

[The Ancient One]

Fantastico!!!

[Tsam]

Ufficiale il supporto di The 7th guest!!!

Henry Stauf cordially invites you to come and sample the delights of his house in the newest game to be supported by ScummVM, The 7th Guest. A delightful evening is guaranteed to be had by you and the other guests.

You will need a copy of the game (DOS and Windows versions only, for now), and a newly-downloaded daily build of ScummVM. And, of course, your wits about you.

Please report any unwanted annoyances (i.e. bugs) to the ScummVM bug tracker. If you find any particularly beautiful sights while you're there, be sure to submit them as screenshots.

P.S. There are some slight complications involved in copying the game to the hard drive, due to there being audio tracks on both CDs. The information on how to get round this is on the 7th Guest wiki page, as well as a few known issues, so be sure to read it fully.

Per sicurezza di aver capito giusto vuol dire che il supporto per 7th gusest permette di giocarci senza problemi? O gioia o gaudio .. ciao
tsam

ps spero che quelli di scummvm ricevano perlomeno una percentuale (seppur minima) al progetto da parte di quelli di gold games.. ciao
tsam

[Glorifindel]

Un paio di cosette interessanti:
- sta procedendo bene il lavoro al supporto di Urban Runner (che condivide l'engine con la serie Gobliiins) da parte di DrMcCoy
- md5/theblugr ha inserito nel trunk i primi files (allo stato primitivo) per il supporto ai giochi basati sul motore SAGA2 (Dinotopia e Faery Tale Adventure II), per sua stessa ammissione sarà una strada molto lunga da compiere, ma la sua perseveranza è ormai nota
- è stata pubblicata una mail dove si cercano nuovi sviluppatori per il motore SCI1 sviluppato esternamente da FreeSCI
- sono iniziati i lavori per supportare i filmati BINK (*.smk), ciò vuol dire che non servirà più convertire in futuro questi file nel formato DXA (viva The Feeble Files e i suoi 200 e passa filmati che bisognava convertire)
- i primi piani per la versione 0.13 di ScummVM sono stati definiti, l'uscita è prevista per febbraio e pare che NON supporterà i 2 discworld, in quanto si preferisce aspettare la loro liberalizzazione (pazienza, pazienza )

Per sicurezza di aver capito giusto blush.gif vuol dire che il supporto per 7th gusest permette di giocarci senza problemi? blush.gif O gioia o gaudio blush.gif.. ciao
tsam

Ebbene sì!!!

ps spero che quelli di scummvm ricevano perlomeno una percentuale (seppur minima) al progetto da parte di quelli di gold games.. ciao
tsam

Se lo meriterebbero proprio!

PS: sev ha pubblicato un post sull'evoluzione del motore SAGA nel corso degli anni, e ha annunciato che il team ha ricevuto i sorgenti per Faery Tale Adventure II (RPG, ma va bene lo stesso )

[Glorifindel]

È stato pubblicato il calendario per l'uscita della versione 0.13:

January 12th: Feature freeze
January 17th: Start of playtesting
January 19th: Branch, trunk is unfrozen
February 11th: All ports should be frozen, prerelease binaries built for testing
February 19th:Tagging
February 28th: Release

[TheRuler]

Aggiunto il supporto per Discworld di MIDI migliorati.

grazie al lavorone di James Woodcock, (già autore della enhanced soundtrack di Simon the sorcerer, anche se ancora non pubblicabile e presto di ITE) è ora possibile giocare a Discworld in una nuovissima veste musicale.

http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=2780

Added support for the Discworld 1 Music Enhancement project. Big thanks to James Woodcock for his work on both versions of the game (the *.GRA and *.SCN version)

da precisare:

IMPORTANT NOTE: My ‘enhancements’ are literally myself enhancing the original MIDI file quality, for use through modern MIDI equipment and is not meant as enhancing the work by the original composer!

[TheRuler]

Questa è una notixiona ragazzi!!!

http://www.scummvm.org/?shownews=20090122.xml

Jan. 22nd, 2009: ScummVM announces affiliate program with GOG.com
Posted by sev

You always wondered where to get games supported by ScummVM? Perhaps you were also asking, how I can help the project?

You could find the supported games either on our downloads page, or on our Where to buy games page on our Wiki. For helping the project we have had a PayPal button for some time.

But now you can reach both goals at the same time!

We are pleased to announce the start of an affiliate program with the excellent Good Old Games service, also known as GOG.com. Just click on their button on the sidebar and you will be brought to the site. Register there and buy some games. You will get your game, cheap, fast and legally, and the ScummVM project will get a share of the proceeds.

The main reason behind this is that GOG.com uses ScummVM for several of their offered titles. Currently they offer Broken Sword 2, Simon the Sorcerer 1, Simon the Sorcerer 2, Feeble Files, Waxworks, as well as some of the free games which we offer too. Each release is nicely pre-packaged with ScummVM, is DRM-free, goes for just $5.99, and the most important thing, is completely legal, as those folks chase the original rights holders.

Thus, watch their site, buy the games, and help our project.

PS: We will get the money only if you click on the provided button and register within a short period of time.

era ora...

[Tsam]

Beh, devo dire che sono piacevolmente soddisfatto per questa notizia. :-). Mi sembra un giusto riconoscimento.. ciao
tsam

[TheRuler]

http://www.scummvm.org/downloads.php#SVN

Aggiunte alle build giornaliere anche gli snapshot di Ubuntu e Debian.

Con lo sviluppo che ha avuto ubuntu in questi ultimi mesi era strano non ci fossero ancora.

[DK]

Teen Agent, se è parlato anni or sono per una traduzione, e ad oggi sembra i progressi siano buoni per una futura integrazione nello ScummVM.
Questo il blog dove potete controllare lo sviluppo.
Qui invece la discussione, riguardo anche i contatti con gli autori del gioco.

[The Ancient One]

Adoro queste news!

[Glorifindel]

Consueto blocco di news:
- Dopo anni ed anni il progetto FreeSCI unirà le proprie sorgenti al progetto ScummVM!!!!!!!!!! Potete la storia di questo attesissimo evento qui sotto (tratto da una mail):

Hi Team,

In order not to clutter That Thread™, I will write the history of
FreeSCI merge separately in this e-mail.

As you all know, we were trying to talk to FreeSCI folks for a quite
time now. Our main reasons for that were that the project seems to be
in all-time dormant state, and that some of our folks were interested
in the development.

Of course, you all, or at least every major team member were aware of
that as I personally spoke with every one of you.

In short. We wanted to merge in FreeSCI for couple of years now.

Thus, there were certain reasons why it could not happen at the time.
One main thing is difference in RE approaches. FreeSCI folks used a
Chinese Wall approach, that is: one person performs the disassembly
and writes specs, and completely different one writes the code. I
consider this as one of the reasons of slow(er) development.

Another important reason was that certain FreeSCI team members, who,
being accomodated in USA had some concerns with our RE approaches when
we use the disassembly more directly.

This was on and off, there were many discussions in the past. Finally
we managed to show FreeSCI folks true benefits of at least using
OSystem, and jvprat started to work on it, later GSoC task was born.
FreeSCI team really saw the benefits of using OSystem, as it would
off-load burden of supporting many platforms. Also we cover some of
the features such as enhanced sound playback or gfx scalers. All of
that was a big plus for everyone.

>From the other hand, being compatible in ScummVM infrastructure meant
moving at least some part of code to C++, and making everything
C++-compatible. That was the GSoC task to do it.

In the meantime, FreeSCI team was a bit worried of the issue. Little
statistics: ScummVM is 50 times more popular than FreeSCI in Ubuntu
popcon.Though that's of course, is not an true reference-quality
indication, you get the idea. Besides portability and low resources
they lacked a good PR. The absence of PR was so big, that even me, the
one, who closely watches their development was not aware that they
have support for SCI1 engine.

Next thing which happened is that SCI1 engine. A dirty work of one man
with all IDA-related comments scattered across the code. Still, after
several months of the guy's effort (Greg Fieger that is), we got the
engine which worked like a charm in most cases.

Thus, it was the last drop to FreeSCI team. They were forced to talk
about it, raising questions of doubled effort and overall project
pace. We took part in it, as they're the only guys on the planet who
know SCI the best and because we were always concerned about SCI
development.

Now the main concern was that which codebase to work on. They had an
impression that we prefer to use that SCI1 engine code and work from
that, however that was not the case. We wanted to use it as a last
resort, as the merge seemed impossible. Thus, this was quickly
clarified, that we are all for using FreeSCI code as a basement and
continue development from that.

Let me roll back a bit. SCI1 engine arrived quite some time ago, in
April 2008, still since that was a bit controversal topic, I kept it
silent to general public. I did not want to piss off the FreeSCI
developers until we see that the code is truly good and that I will be
sure that the development will continue. I spoke with some of the guys
who in the past expressed their desire to work on SCI engine, and some
of them started to look into it in our private repo.

Also during the GSoC code fest Max, Joost and me (mainly Max)
performed a bit of work on SCI1 engine, bringing it to more usable
state, mainly by reusing parts of FreeSCI code directly. It let us see
wider number of games playable just in several hours of work.

So, when FreeSCI guys renewed their talks about the possible merge, I
stopped development of SCI1 engine, informing every one who was
working on it, and pointing them to the #freesci channel.

FreeSCI guys had some a bit heated discussions among themselves,
leading to the current state when Cristoph is refusing to work on the
merged engine at least for the time being. The main concerns are the
same, RE approach. I am yet to describe our approaches in a more
formal way, this will help us to show the world our cleanness in the
sense of not breaking the laws, but I have to wait until some very
important issues will develop a bit more.

Last week GSoC FreeSCI task was finally merged into FreeSCI darcs
tree, and then the work started to slow down again. Max raised this
question in freesci-develop mailing list, and the folks gave us a
green light for the immediate merge.

Now (if you read till this place) let me explain why I am writing this
letter so "late" as some folks stated.

I was going to announce it, and do it beforehand (GOG.com affiliation
tought me 10-th time). But I needed to keep in mind several important
factors (in assorted order):
* Ongoing work on release. I don't want to suck up resources.
People keep fixing bugs in Tinsel instead of other engines
to my disappointment (not that that is too bad, mind you)
* Sensitivity of the issue, esp. towards discussions in the past
* Technical problems yet to resolve (darcs -> svn conversion)
* I had an impression that there will be NO questions anyway
as everyone in the team always welcomed the idea.

Now I see that some folks put some other folks in a quite heated
discussion on IRC. Moreover I was a bit disappointed to see some folks
who were _aware_ of the issues stating the opposite. Not nice. I
completely admit that it was my fault to not talking more, but please,
bear with me.

Now I have several merge-related questions, but I will address them in
a separate letter.

Eugene

[TheRuler]

e difatti...

Feb. 15th, 2009: FreeSCI SCI engine implementation has been merged in
Posted by sev

Well, it is true. FreeSCI code now lives under engines/sci.

Most attentive users who watch our development list perhaps noticed that there exists yet another SCI1 engine implementation made from scratch. But for the benefit of everyone it was decided that the joint effort is much better.

Of course, don't expect any magic from it. First, the engine is not announced as supported yet. It is in early stages of integration. Then, you should keep in mind that after the merge will settle down, only SCI0, SCI01 and SCI1 games will be supported. However, due to the fact that some of ScummVM developers are interested in SCI development for some time now, we look forward to speeding up the work on the engine.

In the meantime, please, help us some more with 0.13.0 version playtesting.

[The Ancient One]

Meraviglioso!!!

[Happiest]

La versione nuova dello scumm è finalmente disponibile! L'ho appena scaricata. :blink:Non riesco a far partire Dicowrld. Se non doveva essere comatibile?

[maff.brush]

La versione nuova dello scumm è finalmente disponibile! L'ho appena scaricata. :blink:Non riesco a far partire Dicowrld. Se non doveva essere comatibile?

no, discworld sarà incluso nella prossima versione (0.14.0). comunque basta installare l'ultima svn se non puoi aspettare...

[Glorifindel]

Aggiungo tardivamente le novità della nuova versione di ScummVM:

0.13.0 (2009-02-28)
General:
- Added MIDI driver for Atari ST / FreeMint.
- Added a 'Load' button to the Launcher (not supported by all engines).
- Added a new global main menu (GMM) dialog usable from all engines.
- Added the ability to return to the launcher from running games (via the GMM).
- Rewrote GUI renderer to use an vector based approach.
- Rewrote GUI configuration to use XML.

New Games:
- Added support for Blue's 123 Time Activities.
- Added support for Blue's ABC Time Activities.
- Added support for Bud Tucker in Double Trouble.
- Added support for The 7th Guest.

KYRA:
- Added support for Auto-save feature.
- Added support for MIDI music.

SCUMM:
- Implemented radio-chatter effect in The DIG.

Una cosa che ritengo particolarmente utile è il nuovo tasto Load, posizionato sotto il tasto Start: in pratica carica una partita senza avviare il gioco dall'inizio; ciò è molto utile se magari ci sono filmati iniziali che non si possono saltare o semplicemente se si vuole continuare in pochi clic una partita.
All'interno della schermata che comparirà tra le altre cose si può finalmente scegliere di cancellare (Delete) un salvataggio.

Altra interessante novità è il menu globale comune, attivabile con Ctrl+F5, che permette anche di tornare alla schermata iniziale di ScummVM.

La ristrutturazione dell'interfaccia (ora è basata su vettori) è stata fatta talmente bene che quasi non si distingue da quella vecchia, a parte i bordi dei pulsanti meno frastagliati.

Anche se non è una release "epocale" (mi sa che quella sarà la prossima ) vi consiglio caldamente di scaricarla comunque.

[The Ancient One]

Troppo bravi questi ragazzi!

E grazie a te, Glori, per le news!

[albesp77]

ho provato a scaricare l'ultima SVN per tentare di caricare Big Red Adventure (che so benissimo non essere ancora supportato), so per certo che Peres sta facendo davvero un ottimo lavoro e mi piacerebbe se ogni tanto si facesse vivo e ci dicesse gli sviluppi, io velocemente ho provato a caricare il gioco, ma ovviamente essendo molto PRE ci sono una serie di problematiche, a me è capitato:

1) Che non accetti il cambio di lingua
2) Che l'intro vada in crash ad un certo punto

Intanto però se avvio il 1° capitolo sembra funzionare bene ;) Attendo con ansia il supporto xkè volentieri me lo rigiocherei ;)

[Tsam]

Ottime nuove; il sistema sta veramente diventando un mustp er chiunque voglia videogiocare "old" :-).. ciao
tsam

ps a quando un supporto per fare andare anche i giochi in dos in generale?

[TheRuler]

per quello c'e' gia dosbox.. ;-)

[Tsam]

Vero, ma non è più sviluppato .. ciao
tsam