Nice to have some possible contacts. I've been working on this on and off over the last year or so, recently more off due to some other projects. I can read the LIB files and decompress data and even play the cutscenes, which are almost completely independant of the interactive game code, though. So...

True, but different games have different requirements. Some may need other video drivers than others, some are 16bit-games that need XMS/EMS drivers set up correctly. If you'd run it under ScummVM you wouldn't have to fumble around with your config.sys/autoexec.bat for different games but only adjus...

Yes, I meant interest from the user side. If no one uses it making a DOS backend (and releasing it ) wouldn't be of much use.

Hmm, so there actually is some interest in a DOS-backend.
Interesting...

Yes, I'm actually working on a tool that lets you do that. You simply type in the name of an adventure game and it's added to ScummVM.
But first I'll have to do research on how to become immortal

Thanks! But I'm not you

Yes, I attached the new player code.
In ScummVM the player code is in graphics/dxa_player.*

Or it goes negative and *you* have to pay us

What happened? The bar is at $1 again?

Of course, I just wanted to clarify things. And if someone wanted to reimpelement EOB 1 or 2, the Kyrandia code would be a good source for information on the scripting engine etc.
(I still have the dream of something like ScummVM but for old RPGs )

sev wrote:As of EOB, it doesn't share engine with Kyrandia, but uses its own AESOP engine, see mirekluza's post.

EOB 1 and 2 share some code with the Kyrandia engine since both were developed by Westwood (mainly the script VM, graphics stuff and the GUI system). EOB 3, however, uses the AESOP engine.

Do you have encode_dxa.exe in the current directory?

IANAL but this seems to mean that this only affects old systems, e.g. video game consoles and computers that are not longer available to the common user. So e.g. for an C64 emulator you could remove the disk copy protection if it can't be reproduced on the emulator due to hardware limitations etc.

Will this be supported in ScummVM?





*SCNR*

To stay on topic, yeah, the game's not too bad, I like it better than the two Bone games.

eriktorbjorn wrote:The SVN version has added one - or was it more than one?

It's one new method.
I'm currently working on a patch for the Dxa encoder (and player) that produces even smaller files. (Files made with the current SVN encoder will still be playable.)