Gabriel Knight Support

Tim20 · Post by **Tim20** » Sun Apr 13, 2014 10:51 pm

How's the progress coming along for Gabriel Knight 1 and 2? Are we getting closer to it being officially supported yet?

I just tested the first game with the daily build and it appears more stable and playable than the last time I tried it.

clone2727 · Post by **clone2727** » Mon Apr 14, 2014 2:28 am

Tim20 wrote:How's the progress coming along for Gabriel Knight 1 and 2? Are we getting closer to it being officially supported yet?

Nope.

Tim20 wrote:I just tested the first game with the daily build and it appears more stable and playable than the last time I tried it.

You probably haven't tried in about four years then

Tim20 · Post by **Tim20** » Mon Apr 14, 2014 4:51 pm

That's a shame. I was rather hoping it'd be supported sometime before the 20th Anniversary Edition comes out, so I can replay it.

I had tested it more recently than 4 years ago, but it still seems to run better now than it did.

Collector · Post by **Collector** » Mon Apr 14, 2014 7:02 pm

Tim20 wrote:That's a shame. I was rather hoping it'd be supported sometime before the 20th Anniversary Edition comes out, so I can replay it.

I had tested it more recently than 4 years ago, but it still seems to run better now than it did.

Are you on Mac, or what is preventing you from playing it now?

Seldon · Post by **Seldon** » Mon Apr 14, 2014 7:47 pm

Even if it's Mac, then there is DosBox for it.

Collector · Post by **Collector** » Mon Apr 14, 2014 10:38 pm

That is why I was asking. To let him know that there are solutions now.

Tim20 · Post by **Tim20** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 12:56 am

Yes, I'm aware there are other means of playing the games, but I just want ScummVM as my main hub for playing these old classics with.

Once the games are supported it'd be a perfect excuse to replay them and test them out for bugs.

Seldon · Post by **Seldon** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 6:33 am

Don't get me wrong Tim20, it's nice to have everything on ScummVM, but on the other hand: for you it's at most 1 hour of istalling and setting DosBox up, for ScummVM developers it's months of hard work...

Collector · Post by **Collector** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 7:06 am

Seldon wrote:Don't get me wrong Tim20, it's nice to have everything on ScummVM, but on the other hand: for you it's at most 1 hour of istalling and setting DosBox up, for ScummVM developers it's months of hard work...

Or even just a matter of minutes to have it setup automatically in DOSBox.

http://sierrahelp.com/Patches-Updates/N ... ers.html#G

Seldon · Post by **Seldon** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 8:10 am

Collector wrote: Or even just a matter of minutes to have it setup automatically in DOSBox.

http://sierrahelp.com/Patches-Updates/N ... ers.html#G

For comparison to be fair, I have chosen most pessimistic scenario

tumbleweed · Post by **tumbleweed** » Fri Apr 18, 2014 5:37 pm

Is there any way to track the progress or whatever is missing? I would like to see an overview of whats missing (if that is possible). I'm talking on a code level.

clone2727 · Post by **clone2727** » Fri Apr 18, 2014 9:35 pm

tumbleweed wrote:Is there any way to track the progress or whatever is missing? I would like to see an overview of whats missing (if that is possible). I'm talking on a code level.

The entire graphics code for SCI32 is pretty wrong. It needs to be rewritten and that's a huge amount of work. Since no one is actively working on it, there's not much to track

tumbleweed · Post by **tumbleweed** » Mon Apr 21, 2014 1:44 pm

clone2727 wrote:
tumbleweed wrote:Is there any way to track the progress or whatever is missing? I would like to see an overview of whats missing (if that is possible). I'm talking on a code level.
The entire graphics code for SCI32 is pretty wrong. It needs to be rewritten and that's a huge amount of work. Since no one is actively working on it, there's not much to track

I see, thanks, I thought the remaining part was smaller after reading the comments of near completion. Sad then :'(

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