ScummVM (Adventure Virtual Machine) ~ Official Thread

[Nemo]

On another matter, we have now started work on the next major release of ScummVM. 0.7.0 is (rather aggressively) scheduled for Christmas 2004! We hope to be able to deliver a nice christmas present to you this way. But for this to work out, we need your help: We need people who actively test the latest CVS so that we can iron out and fix all remaining issues with it, to ensure a high quality release.


http://www.scummvm.org
http://www.scummvm.org/documentation.php?view=release

[Nemo]

///////////// ScummVM version 0.7.0 \\\\\\\\\\\\\

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

* Windows Installer (1.4M Win32 .exe)
* Windows zipfile (1.4M zipfile)
* Mac OS X (10.2 + 10.3) Disk Image (1.6M disk image)
* Fedora Core 3 package (1.2M RPM)
* Fedora Core 1 and 2 package (1.4M RPM)
* Solaris 8 (Sparc) binary (1.1M .tar.bz2)
* PalmOS binary (1.0M zipfile)
* PocketPC 2003 / Smartphone 2003 binary (1.3M zipfile)
* PocketPC 2002 / Smartphone 2002 (ARM) binary (1.3M zipfile)




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0.7.0
New Games:
- Added 26 Humongous Entertainment titles
, only a few are completable. General:
- Added support for FLAC (lossless) encoded audio files
- Added an 'On Screen Display' to the SDL backend
- Partially rewrote the backend API -
Comments and the order of section in config files are preserved now - Updated AdvMame scalers based on scale2x 2.0
- AdvMame3x looks nicer now, and AdvMame2x is MMX accelerated
- Added MMX i386 assembler versions of the HQ2x and HQ3x scalers
- Added 'Extra Path' option allows for a searching an additional datafile location (for reencoded cutscenes and the like) - Disabled Alt-x and Ctrl-z quit keys in favour of Ctrl-q on unix like operating systems, like Linux (exception: Mac OS X still uses Cmd-q)
- Separate smaller font for the console, allowing for more visible information, for example in the SCUMM debugger.
- Added support for setting output sample rate at run-time, although there is currently no GUI for it.
- The save directory now has a default rather than the current directory on some platforms: Mac OS X: $HOME/Documents/ScummVM Savegames/ Other unices: $HOME/.scummvm/
- Added a new about dialog with scrolling credits SCUMM: - Removed the old zak256 target, use zakTowns instead
- Added native support for Macintosh versions using a special container file. This removes the need for using the 'RESCUMM' program - Added smooth horizontal scrolling for The Dig, Full Throttle and COMI (matching the original engine)
- Partially rewrote the text engine, fixing various bugs, especially in newer games (The Dig, COMI)
- Fixed actor drawing glitches in V1 Maniac and Zak
- Fixed ship-to-ship graphic glitches in COMI - Fixed palette glitches in COMI Queen:
- Fixed some issues with the Dreamcast backend. Sword1:
- Added support for compressed speech and music.
- Added support for the demo. - Better support for the Czech version.
- Added workarounds for script and subtitle bugs in some game versions. Sword2: - Simplified memory/resource management
- Simplified sound effects handling - Added support for compressed speech and music. - Fixed various minor bugs. BASS:
- Added workarounds for some rare scripting bugs that could render the game unwinnable.

[paspartoo]

Release Name: 0.7.1

Notes:
General:
- Added a MT-32 emulator. (It was actually added in 0.7.0 but we forgot to
put it into the NEWS file .
- Less memory-hungry MPEG movie playback for the Broken Sword games.

SCUMM:
- Fixed wrong actor animation in Full Throttle INSANE

Windows Mobile port (PocketPC / Smartphone) :
- Fixed FOTAQ crash on all platforms when leaving the hotel AGAIN
- Better low quality Adlib emulation for FOTAQ
- Fix randomly broken Hide Toolbar option (thanks iKi)
- Fix first hardware key mapping (was not displayed before)

- Fix BASS & Simon hangs on Smartphone when using the Skip hotkey
- Fix Zone key action on Smartphone (now mapped on key 9)
- Experimental third party VGA mode (SE-VGA) fix
- Add Key Mapping option in the launcher (Options / Misc / Keys)
- Remove AYGSHELL.DLL dependency to work on CE .Net platforms
- Fix key mapping issues introduced in 0.7.0
- Full Throttle interactive action sequences should be more playable.
- New key mapping option "FT Cheat" to win a Full Throttle action sequence
- Quit Simon game with 'Action key' on Smartphones

Sword2:
- Fixed crash caused by attempting to play music from CD1 and CD2 at the
same time.
- Fixed crash in the cutscene player if the speech file was missing.

BASS:
- Fixed crash when talking to the gardener using spanish text with the
floppy version.



http://www.scummvm.org/

[paspartoo]

Mar. 30th, 2005: Something new this way comes...

Although it will not be part of the official ScummVM program, some of our team members have been working on a little easter surprise for you all. Unfortunately, we're running a bit late.

Expect something very sweet (especially for Linux and Mac people) soon...


http://www.scummvm.org/

[xalia]

υπάρχουν site για να κατεβάσει κανείς τα ανάλογα games?

[paspartoo]

Κοιτα...γενικα τα παιχνιδια αυτα ειναι abandoned - που σημαινει οτι θα τα βρεις σε site τετοιου ειδους. πχ στο http://www.abandonia.com/genre.php?genr ... ure&page=0

Αλλα και στο ιδιο το scummvm.org δινουν καποια free

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

Καποια αλλα οπως τα Simon δεν ειναι abandon ακομα και μαλλον θα τα πετυχεις με πολυ googlισμα ή σε καποιο torrent.

Μπορεις φυσικα να τα αγορασεις - λεμε τωρα - μια που τα σκοτωνουν στα 10-12 ευρω πλεον - αν εχεις "Πλαισιο" κοντα σου ριξε μια ματια.

Τωρα βεβαια υπαρχει και το Scummy - αλλα γιαυτο περισσοτερα στο επομενο Gardening

[paspartoo]

Ψηνεται η νεα εκδοση.....

Απο το www.scummvm.org

May. 11th, 2005: News, lots and lots of them...

On the downside, we really need to post news more regularly. On the upside, we have accumulated a lot to tell you about:
New Ports

* Ports are important for us -- that much we have in common with the good ol' pirates from Monkey Island. Of course in our case it's not the wet kind (with ships and stuff), but rather ports of ScummVM to different architectures. On that front, we have some pretty nice things coming up for the next ScummVM release, including an official PlayStation 2 port, as well as the AmigaOS port now being official, too. And with some luck maybe even the often requested EPOC/Symbian port will finally be a regular part of ScummVM (take a look at the relevant patch tracker item if you are curious).

New games

* We added a new game engine, this time for Coktel's Gobliiins series. So far, Gobliiins 1 is completable. Work on the other parts (Gobliins 2, Goblins 3, and "The Bizarre Adventures of Woodruff and the Schnibble") has not yet begun, but at least Gobliins 2 seems to be similar to part 1, so we hope to have that in the foreseeable future, too. Regarding the other parts, we'll see...
* Thanks to the hard work of some dedicated people we also finally support the (in)famous NES version of Maniac Mansion. Wow, that should be about the last LucasArts SCUMM game we were not supporting ...
* Support for Humongous Entertainment's kids games is progressing well, the following titles can be completed with the current development version of ScummVM:
o Freddi Fish 1 - 4
o Pajama Sam 1 & 2
o Putt-Putt (several titles)
o Spy Fox 1 & 2
o Several arcade titles

New thumbs

* No, I didn't undergo plastic surgery (although another pair of thumbs sounds tempting...). Rather, we added support for thumbnails in SCUMM savegames. Pretty cool stuff, click here for a screenshot.

Not too shabby, we think. And we actually have more really cool stuff in the works, stay tuned.

[Nemo]

Hello, fellow users. Now it's time to help the ScummVM team bring out a new release of err... ScummVM. Ta-da!

.....

We'd like to mention two completely new titles we support now. They are Inherit the Earth and Gobliiins (first one in the series). Please, pay attention to those too.

Instructions on how to do the testing are located at our Wiki page.
http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Release_Testing

http://www.scummvm.org/

[Nemo]

Κώδικας: Επιλογή όλων

  
Συνοπτικα
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  * New improved launcher and in-game GUI
    * Support for Inherit the Earth and Gobliiins
    * Playstation Portable, Playstation 2 and EPOC/SymbianOS ports
    * CGA and Hercules rendering modes for some games
    * Preliminary support for NES and C64 LucasArts games
    * Much improved support for Humongous Entertainment children games (Freddi Fish, Pajama Sam, Putt-Putt, Spy Fox, Fatty Bear, Backyard Sports and Buzzy)



εαν προτιματε , Λιγοτερο Συνοπτικα
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New Games:
   - Added SAGA engine (for the games "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream"
     and "Inherit the Earth").
   - Added Gob engine (for the Goblins series). Currently, only the first of
     the Goblins games is supported.

 New Ports:
   - Added PlayStation 2 port.
   - Added PlayStation Portable (PSP) port.
   - Added AmigaOS 4 port.
   - Added EPOC/SymbianOS port.
   - Added fixes for OS/2 port.

 General:
   - Reworked cursor handling in SDL backend. Now cursors can have their own
     palette and scaling. This is used by Humongous Entertainment games now.
   - Added FluidSynth MIDI driver.
   - Added GUI for the "soundfont" setting. (Currently only used by the
     CoreAudio and FluidSynth MIDI drivers.)
   - The MPEG player could hang if the sound ended prematurely.
   - Improved autoscaling GUI, which takes full advantage of your screen.
   - Fixes for GCC 4.

 SCUMM:
   - Added support for Mac Humongous Entertainment titles.
   - Added support for multiple filenames/versions using a single target.
   - Implemented CGA and Hercules render modes in early LEC titles.
   - Added dialogs which are shown when you modify the talkspeed or music
     volume using hotkeys.
   - Added support for NES version of Maniac Mansion.
   - Added thumbnail support for savegames.
   - Broke compatibility with HE savegame (HE v71 and upwards only).
   - Added possibility to disable building of HE and SCUMM v7 & v8 games
     support.
   - Fixed the last few known music glitches in Sam & Max. (There are still
     some - probably - minor missing features though.)
   - Added support for Commodore64 version of Zak McKracken
   - Eliminated all demos targets and platform-specific targets. Config file
     is autoupdated.

 Sword2:
   - Made the resource manager expire resources more intelligently.
   - Improved performance when playing the game from CD instead of hard disk.
   - Simplified sound effects handling. Again.
   - Code cleanups and restructuring.
   - Fixed long-standing bug in decompressing sounds from the speech/music CLU
     files. It was generating one sample too many, which could be heard as a
     very slight popping noise at the end of some sounds. Files that have been
     compressed with older versions of compress_sword2 will, of course, still
     have the same error. You may want to regenerate them.

D/L

[paspartoo]

Πως με προλαβαινει παντα αυτο το παιδι...

(Thanks Nemo )

[pepinos]

Nemo

καποα καινουργια παιχνιδια απο αυτον τον emulator, δεν μπορουν να βρεθουν (η δεν γινεται να κατεβουν μεσω e-donkey)

εχεις υποψην σου κανενα torrent site για αυτα?

[Nemo]

Due to a bug discovered in 0.8.1, which rendered Broken Sword 2 unplayable, we're forced to release ScummVM 0.8.2 "Broken Broken Sword 2". Also, we used this opportunity to fix the WinCE builds, as well as the MacOS X bundle.


Λεπτομεριακη λιστα αλλαγων 0.8.2

0.8.2 (2006-02-08)
General:
- Fixed OS X bundle building when using GCC 3.3.

SCUMM:
- Added support for rotating and scaling of sprites in HE games.

Sword2:
- Fixed last-minute crash when playing sound effects.

WinCE Port:
- Should fix weird crashes with DOTT stamp and in FOA (#1399830 #1392815)
- Fixed Monkey Island blocking keyboard panel on Smartphones (thks Knakos)
- Fixed QVGA Smartphone detection (mean it this time :p)
- Fixed Smartphone double right click issue.

D/L

[Rayn0r]

Πάντως κατα τη γνώμη μου για να παίξεις καλύτερα τα παιχνίδια μέσω Scumm θέλεις κονσόλα (Χβοχ κτλ)! Κυρίως γιατί η ανάλυση που χρησιμοποιούν τα παιχνίδια αυτά είναι πολύ μικρή και φαίνονται χάλια στο μόνιτορ! Στη τηλεόραση τα πράγματα φτιάχνουν.

[Maddog]

Προφανώς δεν έχεις δοκιμάσεις με graphic filters! Κάνε μια δοκιμή...
Από το readme:

ScummVM offers several anti-aliasing filters to attempt to improve visual
quality. These are the same filters used in many other emulators, such as
MAME. These filters take the original game graphics, and scale it by a
certain fixed factor (usually 2x or 3x) before displaying them to you.
So for example, if the game originally run at a resolution of 320x200
(typical for most of the SCUMM games), then using a filter with scale
factor 2x will effectively yield 640x400 graphics. Likewise with a
3x filter you'll get 960x600.

They are:
1x - No filtering, no scaling. Fastest.
2x - No filtering, factor 2x (default for non 640x480 games).
3x - No filtering, factor 3x.
2xsai - 2xsai filter, factor 2x.
super2xsai - Enhanced 2xsai filtering, factor 2x.
supereagle - Less blurry than 2xsai, but slower. Factor 2x.
advmame2x - Doesn't rely on blurring like 2xSAI, fast. Factor 2x.
advmame3x - Doesn't rely on blurring like 2xSAI, fast. Factor 3x.
hq2x - Very nice high quality filter but slow. Factor 2x.
hq3x - Very nice high quality filter but slow. Factor 3x.
tv2x - Interlace filter, tries to emulate a TV. Factor 2x.
dotmatrix - Dot matrix effect. Factor 2x.

To select a graphics filter, pass its name via the '-g' option to scummvm,
for example:

scummvm -g advmame2x monkey2

[Rayn0r]

Thanx Maddog! Θα δοκιμάσω τα filters.Θέλω να το παίξω σε PC γιατί όπως και να το κάνουμε δεν έχει το ίδιο feeling!