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by hippy dave
Fri Apr 03, 2009 1:26 pm
Forum: Wii Port
Topic: question about low res
Replies: 6
Views: 7154

think with a crt tv it's safe to assume he(?) means scart.

yep, a high proportion of amigas were used with televisions 8)
by hippy dave
Fri Mar 27, 2009 5:49 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Elvira series support in-progress for AGOS (Simon) engine?
Replies: 26
Views: 25998

might adventure soft have it?
by hippy dave
Mon Sep 08, 2008 2:54 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Support for Sword1 GBA?
Replies: 12
Views: 7565

The Amiga 3.5" floppies can be turned into image files usinga standard PC with a floppy drive and a custom driver, if I'm not mistaken. just as a point of trivia - no, a pc as standard can't read amiga floppies, the pc's floppy drive controller doesn't have the capability. it's possible to buy...
by hippy dave
Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:02 am
Forum: Other Ports
Topic: OS X, built in MT-32 emulation - Poor performance?
Replies: 7
Views: 11777

nice one 8)
by hippy dave
Fri Jul 11, 2008 9:49 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Discworld
Replies: 484
Views: 498104

once tinsel is functional in the svn version, i'd be happy to post an intel build if it helps people out :)

(is it ok to post unofficial builds here in the forum?)
by hippy dave
Wed Jul 09, 2008 1:25 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The Stealth Affair: I goofed :(
Replies: 23
Views: 16332

i guess when 3.5" usb floppy drives were first made, regular 3.5" floppy drives were probably still in production - whereas 5.25" floppy drives had been out of production for many years. would have been relatively a lot more work and expense to start manufacturing them again, for a pr...
by hippy dave
Wed Jul 02, 2008 9:55 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: just got a thread closed cause they say ScummVm is piracy?!?
Replies: 33
Views: 15889

c&d is a "cease and desist" letter, when they write to you with a bunch of legalese, saying that if you don't stop doing whatever it is they claim you're doing wrong, then they will take legal action against you.
by hippy dave
Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:43 pm
Forum: Help and Support
Topic: scummvm not working with leopard?
Replies: 10
Views: 5971

m.b.w. wrote:the game files can't be selected.
you don't need to select the actual files, you just need to go to the directory containing those files, and then press "choose"
by hippy dave
Mon Jun 30, 2008 6:11 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Maniac Mansion emulation inside DOTT
Replies: 20
Views: 14575

perhaps not, i didn't check :) - but the implied question was whether or not the consoles were powerful enough to run it, not whether there was an official port.
by hippy dave
Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:05 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Maniac Mansion emulation inside DOTT
Replies: 20
Views: 14575

DOSBox requires far too much processing power to run on handheld platforms or gaming consoles - i.e. Windows Mobile, Dreamcast, Symbian, iphone, PSP, Playstation 2 etc etc. It runs on Desktop operating systems, so the portability requirements are of course vastly different not to nitpick ;) but it'...
by hippy dave
Mon Jun 30, 2008 3:41 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Maniac Mansion emulation inside DOTT
Replies: 20
Views: 14575

I always figured that was essentially what DOTT did, did a snapshot save and when you quit reloaded it and set a flag to Bernard to trigger his response. nah dott just froze in the background after running maniac mansion, so when mm exited, dott would just restart from where it was, still all there...
by hippy dave
Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:32 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: New feature suggestion
Replies: 21
Views: 11875

or you could use a front-end app that would give you a mac-like interface, and call scummvm with the relevant command-line options.
by hippy dave
Sun Jun 22, 2008 7:40 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Drascula wants to take over the world!
Replies: 68
Views: 57808

legally, there's no such thing as abandonware... so whether or not it's ethically acceptable, our benevolent hosts choose to keep discussion of such things off these boards.
by hippy dave
Sun Jun 22, 2008 7:30 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Discworld
Replies: 484
Views: 498104

md5 wrote:sev posted a status update concerning DW in his blog:
http://sev-notes.blogspot.com/2008/06/d ... table.html
nice :)
i take it that version isn't on the svn yet tho?
by hippy dave
Wed Jun 18, 2008 2:18 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Classic LucasArts adventure game titles may be revived
Replies: 17
Views: 15069

maybe we should encourage everyone to write to lucasarts saying what an awesome idea it is, and also that they should finish ft2 and s&m2... :idea: