Psyco: I was struggling more because I was trying to balance my video camera on my shoulder whilst taking the video It's decidedly easier to play when you've not got a video camera on your shoulder.

Sadly, I do admit that using your finger to press buttons is sometimes prone to error. It might be worth investigating adding a virtual mouse, a bit like the Keyboard-Mouse support in the SDL backend. Perhaps a virtual mouse that could be turned off/on, so if you had a fiddly bit to do in a game, you could use the virtual mouse to do it, then turn it off afterwards.

Got audio running now too. It even manages to run Full Throttle.

sev- Yes, I'd love to join the development team and contribute my changes. I'll need to sync up to the latest SVN code and get it running again there and then I'll post my patches.

Regarding load & save, I realise ScummVM handles that already. I was more talking about hooking up the application suspend & resume messages to tell ScummVM to save & load your game.

I don't know much about adding save game loading to the launcher. Haven't looked at that yet.

I'm debating whether it would be worth adding a native Cocoa-based launcher to the iPhone version. Anything thoughts? Would that be frowned upon? It looks like the Windows CE version does it.

   

excellent, can't wait for the release candidate(hopefully ill be able to get my hands on one shortly there after)

so what game requires the most processing power, out of the current library of games? would rock if you could get that working.

how would the virtual mouse be useful though(maybe more for tracking?)? and how would one go about turning it on and off, i assume there would/will be a side bar of some kind. containing multiple functions? keyboard, mouse, options and/or save functionality.

any eta on when a beta will be available?

   

@ruudboy: Excellent work! I suggest you come to the #scummvm channel in IRC

I'm not sure what will be the benefits of creating a native Cocoa-based launcher... What do you think are the advantages of creating such a launcher? I believe the Windows CE version uses the "default" launcher (with low res graphics, of course), but I could be wrong

   

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Regarding load & save, I realise ScummVM handles that already. I was more talking about hooking up the application suspend & resume messages to tell ScummVM to save & load your game.

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At least in Gob games, there are places where the game doesn't allow saving and doing so anyway will corrupt the save (i.e. the game will be unplayable after loading such a save).

   

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Hmm... That may be tricky. Game engines don't always allow saving at arbitrary points during gameplay. It's possible that a "forced" savegame like that won't work properly.

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I suppose the most brute force way to do this would be to dump the memory onto the disc and check for the "memory dump" when the user clicks on the ScummVM application on the phone.

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I suppose the most brute force way to do this would be to dump the memory onto the disc and check for the "memory dump" when the user clicks on the ScummVM application on the phone.

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This is a method commonly employed in console emulators -- brute, but very fast and effective. Even if this weren't necessary to making a quicksave when a call comes in, it'd still be a darn nice feature

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That would be... tricky . Emulators can do it since the games basically run in a virtual machine with its own seperate memory space. In ScummVM everything is native, all you could do is do a full memory dump of the whole application and somehow restore that afterwards. Which won't work

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The real question is to whether it is possible to do this with the UIKit functions. There is UISuspendInfo.h which may be the Apple-supplied stuff to accomplish this.

setRestoreOnResume() sounds like it might help but I can't claim to have ever used it.

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Regarding load & save, I realise ScummVM handles that already. I was more talking about hooking up the application suspend & resume messages to tell ScummVM to save & load your game.

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I'm debating whether it would be worth adding a native Cocoa-based launcher to the iPhone version. Anything thoughts? Would that be frowned upon? It looks like the Windows CE version does it.

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If the whole saving and loading gives problems, why not tell a game to pause? I'm not sure whether each engine has a pause option, but it should be valid:

Get a call
->pause game
after the call
->unpause game

   

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If the whole saving and loading gives problems, why not tell a game to pause? I'm not sure whether each engine has a pause option, but it should be valid:

Get a call
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after the call
->unpause game

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Looking at the code for Apollo IM, Chat, IRCm, or Colloquy (iPhone edition) may help. They all seem to have found a way to continue processing while not active.

   

The Pedometer program is a perfect example of this. Once started, you can press the Home button and it continues counting steps in the background. You can also run any other program and when you go back into the Pedometer, its still counting your steps.

Great work by the way guys!