ScummVM in Debian

[Max Horn]

Hi there,

I just noticed that we apparently never replied to this email. Dang, sorry for that :/. But better late than never... 

Am 20.05.2010 um 22:02 schrieb Moritz Muehlenhoff:

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> 
> Is the version of freesci in scummvm more buggy than the standalone
> version?

The SCI engine in ScummVM is based on FreeSCI, but differs in many ways. It is currently still undergoing major changes due to being rewritten to fit within ScummVM, and for improvements. When it is done, it will hopefully be less buggy and support more games than FreeSCI. But right now it's still under heavy development, and not stable -- e.g. we are likely to break the savegame format before we officially enable it (which I hope will happen in ScummVM 1.2.0).

Despite being heavily based on FreeSCI, though, (the SCI engine in) ScummVM still is a different program. It does not support savegames made with FreeSCI; it does not have the GUI FreeSCI had; it does not parse the FreeSCI config file; and a few features from FreeSCI have been removed (they might be re-implemented in future versions of ScummVM, though).


> 
>> . So, let me encourage you and invite you to forward bug reports
>> (if they are not Debian specific), discuss troubles ScummVM 
>> causes you, and changes you would like to see on our side.
> 
> Thanks, I've forwarded bugs, which have been resolved in the
> mean time, e.g. the bug about running without a sound card.
> 
> The only open issue is not directly in ScummVM, but in Drascula:
> 
> For the Debian archive we need a completely free Drascula package. 
> When it was released we spotted that the game data archive contains
> a sourceless DOSG4W.EXE, which make it unsuitable for the Debian
> archive. I've reported it, but there was no interest in dropping
> the binary since people might want to run the game without ScummVM.
> 
> I've created a copy where the non-free binaries are stripped,
> but naturally the checksum isn't detected by ScummVM. Would
> you merge the checksum of our stripped game data archive so that
> it's officially detected? The pruned version is likely to be used
> by Fedora as well.

I see no problem with that. Eugene, do you (Note: Eugene is currently on vacation, so he won't reply soon ;).

Moritz, if you have a patch for this, please send it to me and I can add it.



Cheers,
Max