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by Freddo
Sun Feb 03, 2013 9:31 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Roland MT-32 - The Ultimate Tutorial
Replies: 25
Views: 25957

What is the standard of sound output for modern games? Many modern games use something like mp3 or ogg vorbis, so it doesn't use anything like MIDI at all. MIDI hardware had their gaming prime time for DOS games from 1990 to 1996 or so, and pretty much been irrelevant for games since 1997. First be...
by Freddo
Sat Feb 02, 2013 5:27 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Roland MT-32 - The Ultimate Tutorial
Replies: 25
Views: 25957

So with my current gen sound-card, when I boot-up Monkey or FOA, the sounds I am hearing are different then what you are hearing with your Midi setup? Yes, it's different. The General MIDI standard only say that instrument 0 is an Acoustic Grand Piano sound and instrument 73 is a Flute, and so on. ...
by Freddo
Fri Jan 25, 2013 6:24 pm
Forum: Help and Support
Topic: how to open scummvm rar file
Replies: 1
Views: 1364

Download this exe installer and you will have no need to deal with some unofficial rar build.

Cause it's nothing bad you're doing right? I mean, you already had a thread locked because of rule 0.
by Freddo
Sat Jan 19, 2013 2:05 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: DOTT and Maniac Mansion for free ?
Replies: 10
Views: 10926

Back in 2004 or 2005 there was an article in the largest swedish PC gaming magazine about abandonware like it was a perfectly legal and ok thing to download. And that's just from 1 of 10 random magazines I've bought from them in their ~17 years of existance, so it's quite possible they written about...
by Freddo
Fri Jan 18, 2013 1:51 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: DOTT and Maniac Mansion for free ?
Replies: 10
Views: 10926

Somewhere a mistake been made, cause the games are not freeware.
by Freddo
Sun Jan 06, 2013 10:21 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis - DIFFERENT BUILDS?
Replies: 5
Views: 4468

Seems like one of the two versions includes updated drivers. You can find all updates for Atlantis, including sound driver updates here: http://www.lucasarts.com/support/update/indy-fate.html While I can't say I like what Lucasarts have become, it is rather impressive they still have patches up for...
by Freddo
Sun Dec 30, 2012 5:15 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Broken Sword 3
Replies: 2
Views: 1973

Nope.
by Freddo
Sat Dec 29, 2012 4:40 am
Forum: Help and Support
Topic: How to take Screenshots in ScummVM?
Replies: 17
Views: 21298

windyliang wrote:The same question I want to ask! I also need the help!
Did you read the above posts for help?
by Freddo
Fri Dec 28, 2012 2:02 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Window resizing
Replies: 19
Views: 8542

Not to mention that alt+enter been standard for switching between windowed mode to fullscreen mode in Windows software since the 3.x days in the early 90s, even if fewer programs use it these days.
by Freddo
Sat Dec 15, 2012 4:39 pm
Forum: The Junkyard
Topic: Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within music
Replies: 5
Views: 9474

GK2 is all digital.
by Freddo
Mon Nov 19, 2012 7:48 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: New game from the creators of Quest for Glory! (kickstarter)
Replies: 11
Views: 6013

EDIT: Whee, they made it :)
by Freddo
Thu Nov 08, 2012 9:17 pm
Forum: Other Ports
Topic: Harmattan port?
Replies: 85
Views: 174550

Alright, here's a test build for the brave and adventurous: scummvm_1.5.0_armel.deb Works very well for me so far, playing Discworld 2. Thanks a lot! :) EDIT: The only annoying thing is that the screensaver isn't turned off while ScummVM is running, so if you look at a cutscene, the screen will get...
by Freddo
Wed Oct 31, 2012 3:51 am
Forum: The Junkyard
Topic: Disney Buys Lucasfilm
Replies: 13
Views: 13782

Disney bought Marvel a while ago and so far there hasn't been any "Spider-Man & Donald Duck adventures" comics. I don't really think there will be any noticeable change. One could argue that there been more Marvel movies from Hollywood lately I suppose, but that wheel started to spin b...
by Freddo
Sun Oct 21, 2012 11:57 pm
Forum: SymbianOS Port
Topic: Split build from version 1.2.1 and there after!
Replies: 15
Views: 50041

Neat, wasn't aware you had a blog, but unfortunately I'm quite unable to find the 1.5.0 build?

I did see Exult though, which made me very pleased, so thanks for that! :)
by Freddo
Sun Oct 21, 2012 11:33 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Dreamweb Released As Freeware
Replies: 29
Views: 20763

Very cool, one of the first PC games I bought, and now lots of newcomers can enjoy it too! :)