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Yü-Gung
Joined: 22 Sep 2009
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Discworld (the first one)
When I saw that ScummVM supported Discworld, I went to the attic to get my copy of that game (it came in a book-like custom case) and see if I could get it to work. And I could! No problem.
It would be very cool if I could show it off on my android phone, but alas the android version doesn't recognize it. Is this because the android version is based on an older trunk version, or is it because of something else?
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Tue Sep 22, 2009 9:14 pm |
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md5
ScummVM Developer

Joined: 03 Nov 2005
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Re: Discworld (the first one)
quote: Originally posted by Yü-Gung When I saw that ScummVM supported Discworld, I went to the attic to get my copy of that game (it came in a book-like custom case) and see if I could get it to work. And I could! No problem.
It would be very cool if I could show it off on my android phone, but alas the android version doesn't recognize it. Is this because the android version is based on an older trunk version, or is it because of something else?
Yes, the Android version is still in development, and is based off an older version of ScummVM
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Wed Sep 23, 2009 8:43 am |
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daygreen
Joined: 17 Nov 2009
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Hi all,
First post here. Basically ive been reading that the android version is still a bit of a work in progress and a lot of people are getting mixed results.
Somehow i seem to be falling at the first hurdle. Installed scummvm from the android apps shop, added all the files as required on the faq for DOTT from a CD version i have. Also tried to load up flight of the amazon queen from the freeware download, each time i add it to the SD card (J: drive), unmount and unplug my phone (HTC hero) and try to play it but whenever i go to add game and click on sdcard in scumm it says 'scumm could not find any game in the specified directory'! Im at a bit of a loose end with this one, ive tried transferring the whole DOTT folder and not just the files, ive tried putting it into a games sub folder on the sd card as well as leaving the files loose on the drive. Really want to get this running, ive got sooo many point and clicks i could potentially get on here.
If anyone has any ideas at all it would really be appreciated.
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Tue Nov 17, 2009 2:04 am |
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gus
ScummVM Porter
Joined: 13 Feb 2009
Posts: 77
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quote: Originally posted by Jacks Hello everybody:
i have found some problems with the CD Talkie version [samnmax] (Spanish Version) and i have no FX sound. I have tested it in Ubuntu version (1.0.0rc1) and it works perfectly...
Note: I compressed the audio with Scumm Tools time ago (monster.sou to monster.so3). The speech works almost perfectly (sometimes with some lines the speech does not sound).
monster.so3 *should* be supported on Android.
I can only suggest waiting for the 1.0.0rc1-based version that should hit the Android market in the next few days. Hopefully there has been some fixes for your Spanish FX sound problem.
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Thu Nov 19, 2009 12:16 am |
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gus
ScummVM Porter
Joined: 13 Feb 2009
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quote: Originally posted by daygreen Somehow i seem to be falling at the first hurdle. Installed scummvm from the android apps shop, added all the files as required on the faq for DOTT from a CD version i have. Also tried to load up flight of the amazon queen from the freeware download, each time i add it to the SD card (J: drive), unmount and unplug my phone (HTC hero) and try to play it but whenever i go to add game and click on sdcard in scumm it says 'scumm could not find any game in the specified directory'! Im at a bit of a loose end with this one, ive tried transferring the whole DOTT folder and not just the files, ive tried putting it into a games sub folder on the sd card as well as leaving the files loose on the drive. Really want to get this running, ive got sooo many point and clicks i could potentially get on here.
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Start ScummVM. Choose "Add Game". Scroll down and choose "sdcard". Double-click the touchscreen / trackball / d-pad-center (yes, I know this is a very un-Android action). Repeat double-clicking until you find a particular game folder. Once you are either in the game folder, or in the parent with the game folder selected, press "Choose". You should get an options screen mentioning the name of the game - press OK and you're done.
Let me know if that is enough to get you going. If so, I'll try to expand on the instructions at the scummvmandroid FAQ. I expect the double-clicking thing is throwing you, since it seems very unintuitive on a phone.
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Thu Nov 19, 2009 12:36 am |
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daygreen
Joined: 17 Nov 2009
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Foiled by a double-click! How embarassing is that! Got the DOTT intro playing through now and its working perfectly, a lot better than i could ever have anticipated and the controls seem easy enough so altogher a great little app, just got to dig out all the CD's and floppys to get the games back now!
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Thu Nov 19, 2009 1:14 am |
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fingolfin
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Joined: 21 Sep 2005
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As for that: It would still be very nice if this port was finally merged into mainline ScummVM. Sadly, I haven't seen any updates to the relevant patch tracker submission by gus in ages :-/. It would also allow others to build the port easily, and to contribute.
Not to forget that by the GPL, we need to see the full source code... I don't doubt that Gus has full intentions to be fully GPL compliant, but right now, it almost seems as if the the Android port is (again :/) in violation of the GPL -- at least I couldn't find the source code to build the latest Android port myself anywhere. Maybe I didn't search hard enough?
Gus, please fix that, at least put a tarball of the source code you used to build the binaries on your website.
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Tue Nov 24, 2009 1:56 pm |
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Nikioko
Joined: 13 Sep 2008
Posts: 269
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I am about to get a new mobile phone (G2, which is a HTC hero afaik). Is there i Android port that supports this phone?
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Tue Nov 24, 2009 4:08 pm |
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gus
ScummVM Porter
Joined: 13 Feb 2009
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quote: Originally posted by Nikioko I am about to get a new mobile phone (G2, which is a HTC hero afaik). Is there i Android port that supports this phone?
Yes, works just fine on G2. Android 2.0 (Droid) is the only problem case at the moment.
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Wed Nov 25, 2009 10:44 am |
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gus
ScummVM Porter
Joined: 13 Feb 2009
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quote: Originally posted by fingolfin As for that: It would still be very nice if this port was finally merged into mainline ScummVM. Sadly, I haven't seen any updates to the relevant patch tracker submission by gus in ages :-/. It would also allow others to build the port easily, and to contribute.
Not to forget that by the GPL, we need to see the full source code... I don't doubt that Gus has full intentions to be fully GPL compliant, but right now, it almost seems as if the the Android port is (again :/) in violation of the GPL -- at least I couldn't find the source code to build the latest Android port myself anywhere. Maybe I didn't search hard enough?
Gus, please fix that, at least put a tarball of the source code you used to build the binaries on your website.
Oh good point. I'll dump the latest diff into that bug report.
Unfortunately the ports.mk hacks are still a bit rough for it to be merged right now. I've managed to clean a lot of it up, but there's still more that needs to be done.
You are perfectly right that I should make this a higher priority. This last update has consumed the last few months of my spare time - I'll put some work into the build process now and see what happens.
(I have switched all my ScummVM code over to hg, with the intention of creating a code.google.com project - but at this point it might be easier to just get it into ScummVM proper)
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Wed Nov 25, 2009 10:56 am |
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fingolfin
Retired
Joined: 21 Sep 2005
Posts: 1466
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Hi gus,
just submit that patch, don't worry too much about cleaning it up. Maybe people (e.g. me) can help you get it cleaned up. Maybe we can even incorporate parts of it for starters. Thing is, when a port is in our repository, then when we change things, we try to maintain the port; if your port is external, then we can and will break it constantly along the way (not out of bad will, it just happens).
If the code was in our repository, and if it is possible to cross-compile the port on a Debian machine, we could even add it to our BuildBot to make nightlies, and to alert the team about any build regressions.
FYI, we might move to git for version control. Using the hg-git bridge, you could then use our repository as if it was a mercurial/hg repository (see http://hg-git.github.com/).
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Wed Nov 25, 2009 11:45 am |
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