enderandrew wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 01, 2020 6:16 pm

Where do I get that string?

Most of the Infocom games explicitly tell you as part of the starting text, something like "Release 3 / 871119". Alternatively, if you're are at all familiar with hex editing, the date is encoded as 6 characters from offset 18 decimal in the gamefiles.

Thanks for those. I'll be sure to add them in. Though it would be helpful for posterity if you could also provide me each game's release version (date string) as well, so I can include it like other detection entries have.

Does it mean that ScummVM ignores sound settings in case of World of Xeen? And if so, if there any way to play World of Xeen with Roland MT-32 audio? That's correct. Currently, Xeen only supports the Adlib sound driver, and uses it automatically. Other sound drivers the original had are on the back...

This sounds like the same bug listed here . The current assumption is that there's a bug when you skip cutscenes that can result in the sound reel(s) being used not being properly released at the end, resulting in later game crashes when it tries to use more sound reels for new cutscenes than whatev...

Can't see any console. Could it be hiding? That's weird. The default project created by create_project should have the console turned on by default. You might want to check out this section of the Compiling in Visual Studio document . It deals with turning off the console; try reversing it, and mak...

Manannan wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 31, 2019 7:42 am

Do I need to AllocConsole first and if not where does the output appear in Visual Studio?

When you run ScummVM in Visual Studio, by default it should automatically open a console window where text output from calls to debug(), warning(), and/or error() get printed.

What is the correct procedure to see output in the console? The simplest way is to #Include "common/debug.h" in any source file and then call the global debug method. There are several variations that allow debug output to occur depending on a global "debug level" you can set on the command line wh...

When I debug the Scumm VM there is no game screen window. I use Visual Studio myself; and I haven't noticed any issue with the ScummVM window disappearing. The only thing slightly similar I know of is that when code execution is paused in the Visual Studio debugger, it's rarely seen the game window...

Is the .css file something that ScummVM created for its own use then? The xeen.ccs contains various tables of information extracted from the original executable, such as the list of monsters, what they look like, what kind of damage they do, etc. It's generally considered cleaner to extract the inf...

Chances are, you saved a copy of the xeen.ccs file at the time into your game directory (or perhaps to an Extras path). If so, you should now delete it, since the official builds have the file directly embedded. But your old copy is overriding that.

I'm having a very similar problem: ScummVM says that it can't find any game in the folder. It's directly from the web, not from a CD. My system is Windows 7 64 bit. Any advice? It also doesn't work through DOSBox and since D-Fend Reloaded doesn't protest, doesn't say that these aren't DOS execs, I ...

I'm unfamiliar with the OpenGL code, so I can't really offer any suggestion. Beyond that it works for me on my installation, so it could just be some corruption and/or invalid setup on the computer you're currently using. If possible, you might want to try installing Visual Studio 2019 on another co...

It's highly variable. For me, on a few years old laptop running VS2019, I can do a build of a single engine and the core/backend code in about a minute.

Sure. What I do is to make a copy of the create_msvc.bat in the dists/msvc folder.. say call it 'scumm.bat'. Then open the file for editing, and search for the section that starts with ":stable". A couple of lines below it, replace the create_project line with something like the following: create_pr...

The problems you're having with the compass rose is that some images have an adaptive palette that changes according to whatever else is loaded at the time. You were right. With some extra logic to load the list and handle the palette copying, the Blorb version of Zork Zero now renders the compass ...