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by Whomper
Sun Dec 03, 2006 10:48 pm
Forum: The Junkyard
Topic: Nippon Safes
Replies: 10
Views: 12994

Fantastic. Any idea if there's any common engine between the original an its sequel, the dissapointing DOS-SVGA-configuration-nightmare that was Big Red Adventure?

Here's a review.
by Whomper
Sun Nov 26, 2006 11:22 am
Forum: Help and Support
Topic: Indy last crusade MAC OSX help
Replies: 5
Views: 3489

I've never had a problem finishing Indy 3 on OS X, so I'm not sure what the Grail Text reference is about. You will need your original Grail Diary from the box though, if you're to have any hope of finishing the game.
by Whomper
Tue Oct 17, 2006 1:35 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: We can no longer accept Paypal Donations
Replies: 75
Views: 154867

I think he's suggesting creating an 'official' build of ScummVM which would only run PC games on the PC platform, thereby picking around PayPal's wording, with the multiplatform functionally annexed into a seperate 'sideproject' called ScummVM+. All of which sounds like it would take a lot of time w...
by Whomper
Mon Sep 18, 2006 8:45 pm
Forum: Help and Support
Topic: Problems compiling SVN tools on OS X PPC + Fink
Replies: 2
Views: 1893

Thank you muchly! I would have sworn I checked the Fink FAQ :oops:

I note this also means that I don't have to feed prefix dirs to Configure ScummVM builds. Now to see if I can get this DXA coding to work!
by Whomper
Mon Sep 18, 2006 5:03 pm
Forum: Help and Support
Topic: Problems compiling SVN tools on OS X PPC + Fink
Replies: 2
Views: 1893

Problems compiling SVN tools on OS X PPC + Fink

I've managed to decode the Broken Sword smacker files into PNG + WAV using Virtual PC (which was actually incredibly fast - presumably because it was writing 1000+ png files to RAM rather than to a physical harddrive), and now I'm trying to compile the latest tools to use encode_dxa. SVN Revision 23...
by Whomper
Sun Sep 17, 2006 6:38 pm
Forum: Help and Support
Topic: iMac 1440x900 Display Problems
Replies: 15
Views: 17699

Yeh, it's in 4:3 with black borders on each side of the screen. Sounds good to me! I have a PowerMac G4 hooked up to a cheap Acer 19 inch widescreen TFT, and it just smears the graphics output across the full screen regardless of whether I want it to. Let's save the dev team some time, and swap mac...
by Whomper
Sun Sep 17, 2006 6:36 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: FM-Towns versions
Replies: 4
Views: 7801

FYI, you're talking about FM synthesis, not MIDI. All FM-Towns models are equiped with a YM2612, same soundchip as the Mega Drive. It's not a bad processor, but it's not exactly as good as a YM3812 (fewer channels than AdLib, and the sound emulation itself is a bit rough compared to a real machine)...
by Whomper
Sun Sep 17, 2006 3:01 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: FM-Towns versions
Replies: 4
Views: 7801

To the best of my knowledge, the only FM-Towns versions that offer any advantages are Zak McKracken and Loom (256 colour graphics, CD audio) and Indy 3 (CD audio). The FM Towns few attempts at midi synthesis (the kazoo in Zak, the Venice theme or the piano playing in Indy) are physically painful. I ...
by Whomper
Sun Sep 17, 2006 2:57 pm
Forum: Help and Support
Topic: iMac 1440x900 Display Problems
Replies: 15
Views: 17699

So is it running in 4:3 and leaving most of your screen blank, or is it stretching the image to fill the screen and looking a bit ugly?
by Whomper
Sat Sep 16, 2006 7:43 am
Forum: Help and Support
Topic: The Dig & tomb spire
Replies: 13
Views: 15040

I played through The Dig using the SVN version a few weeks ago. A bit of a curate's egg of a game, and the guides at GameFAQs are fairly awful.

ScummVM played it perfectly, but couldn't fix the fractured mess of a game created by that development process.
by Whomper
Fri Sep 08, 2006 8:11 pm
Forum: Help and Support
Topic: Save Game compatability
Replies: 6
Views: 5617

Amusingly, a few of them run better than they did in the original interpreters (even if you ignore the graphics filters and sound modes), but still only get 95%.
by Whomper
Thu Sep 07, 2006 5:37 am
Forum: Help and Support
Topic: DXA support in BrokenSword 1/2
Replies: 34
Views: 23590

Will you be posting new versions of the Sword 1/Sword 2 cutscenes in DXA format in time for the next release?

Can I do DXA encoding on the Mac, or is it Windows only at the moment?
by Whomper
Sun Sep 03, 2006 1:43 pm
Forum: Help and Support
Topic: Can I get the correct full-screen aspect ratio on a 5:4 LCD?
Replies: 7
Views: 7095

I'm running OSX Tiger on a Powermac hooked up to a 1440x900 display, and I also can't work out a way to run fullscreen without everything being squashed into the wrong aspect ratio. I presume this is a monitor problem, though - checking on the OSD, it says it is receiving a 640x480 input, but it's c...
by Whomper
Fri Aug 25, 2006 6:26 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Optimal options
Replies: 8
Views: 19265

Re: Optimal options

Graphics filters are very subjective - just have a fiddle and see what you like. The HQ filters are supposed to smooth without blurring, but I find them so horribly blurry that I compile ScummVM without them (which shaves a fair bit off the compile time, to boot). AdvMame2x is my filter of choice. A...
by Whomper
Thu Jun 22, 2006 5:48 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Question about Broken Sword 1..
Replies: 13
Views: 11434

I thought the Syria/Spain glitch only occurred in the GBA version?