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ScummVm in Education environment?

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Hi All,

I'm a teacher in Australia. I want my kindergarten class to be able to use Just grandma and me.

I have struck two problems.
1. I installed ScummVM, setup the game and made shortcuts under my user account. It all works fine. I then copied the settings to other computers using my user account. However, when a kinder logs on using their account, it hasn't registered that ScummVM has been installed. Is there a solution?

2. The music sound for Just granma has a pronounced hiss.

Appreciate any help,

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I
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Hi, this is exciting to hear!

We would need to have a bit more background, like your OS etc.

But generally, ScummVM does not really require any installation. In your case there are 3 components which will be needed to make the game work on any computer:

1. ScummVM executable (and possibly shortcut to it from the desktop)
2. Game data, which you put into some common path or even network-accessible folder
3. scummvm.ini config file which contains the reference to the game after you press 'Add Game...' button within ScummVM.

The scummvm.ini file location is OS-dependent, but on modern Windows it is usually in "\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\ScummVM\scummvm.ini". See section 8.0 of our README for more locations.

But beware, that the path to the game is usually absolute, so either you have to put the game on a shared network drive accessible from every computer, or put it into some fixed place like d:\Game.

Speaking of the hiss, we need more details from you, see FAQ entry on reporting bugs.


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sev wrote:The scummvm.ini file location is OS-dependent, but on modern Windows it is usually in "\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\ScummVM\scummvm.ini". See section 8.0 of our README for more locations.
In this particular case, I would suggest putting the ScummVM install, config file and gamedata in a shared location, eg network drive.

You can then create a ScummVM shortcut with the command line parameter "--config=D:\game\scummvm.ini" - this will allow you to share the same configuration across multiple accounts.
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thank you

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Hi Ender and Sev,

Thankyou both for your replies and apologies for the lack of information.
Our machines are windows 7 64bit. But I don't know what the server environment is. I'm assuming microsoft as well as they seem to have the det contract.


Ender so I could create a folder in our g network drive and call it something like "Granma" Inside that I could save the ScummVM install (which I assume is the program), the just granma game data and scummvm.ini
The shortcut should then look like:
"G:\granma\ScummVM\scummvm.exe" -f granma-win --config=g:\granma\scummvm.ini

Is that correct?

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Yes, that should work.


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Post by Teach »

Hi guys,

I'm doing something wrong. I created a shortcut with:

"P:\Composite\Stage 1\ed software\ScummVM\scummvm.exe" -f grandma-win --config=P:\Composite\Stage 1\ed software\scummvm.ini

and I got an error. I took two screenshots one of the error and one of the directory structure.
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Teach wrote:Hi guys,

I'm doing something wrong. I created a shortcut with:

"P:\Composite\Stage 1\ed software\ScummVM\scummvm.exe" -f grandma-win --config=P:\Composite\Stage 1\ed software\scummvm.ini
You'll have to put quotation marks around the path you pass to --config. A space indicates another parameter starts, thus you effectively passed "P:\Composite\Stage" as config file. and "1\ed" "sofware\scummvm.ini" as additional parameters.
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Post by Teach »

LordHoto wrote:
Teach wrote:Hi guys,

I'm doing something wrong. I created a shortcut with:

"P:\Composite\Stage 1\ed software\ScummVM\scummvm.exe" -f grandma-win --config=P:\Composite\Stage 1\ed software\scummvm.ini
You'll have to put quotation marks around the path you pass to --config. A space indicates another parameter starts, thus you effectively passed "P:\Composite\Stage" as config file. and "1\ed" "sofware\scummvm.ini" as additional parameters.
So are you saying that I need to do it this way?
"P:\Composite\Stage 1\ed software\ScummVM\scummvm.exe" -f grandma-win --config="P:\Composite\Stage 1\ed software\scummvm.ini"
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Teach wrote:
LordHoto wrote:
Teach wrote:Hi guys,

I'm doing something wrong. I created a shortcut with:

"P:\Composite\Stage 1\ed software\ScummVM\scummvm.exe" -f grandma-win --config=P:\Composite\Stage 1\ed software\scummvm.ini
You'll have to put quotation marks around the path you pass to --config. A space indicates another parameter starts, thus you effectively passed "P:\Composite\Stage" as config file. and "1\ed" "sofware\scummvm.ini" as additional parameters.
So are you saying that I need to do it this way?
"P:\Composite\Stage 1\ed software\ScummVM\scummvm.exe" -f grandma-win --config="P:\Composite\Stage 1\ed software\scummvm.ini"
Yes, that should work.
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Post by Teach »

Hmmm still getting an error. Can anyone spot what I am doing wrong?

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Post by m_kiewitz »

Teach wrote:Hmmm still getting an error. Can anyone spot what I am doing wrong?

T
You could try to move the game name to the end of the parameters.

So like this:

"P:\Composite\Stage 1\ed software\ScummVM\scummvm.exe" -f --config="P:\Composite\Stage 1\ed software\scummvm.ini" grandma-win
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Teach wrote:Hmmm still getting an error. Can anyone spot what I am doing wrong?
What does the error say?


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Post by Teach »

m_kiewitz that worked! :) Thank You Thank you to you and all the other people who contributed to this thread!!!

I'm looking forward to doing LB with Kindy Monday.
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Post by Raziel »

Awesome you made it work.

Followed the thread as lurker and happy to see ScummVM being used for education :-)
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