DomStLeger Posted July 28, 2003 Share Posted July 28, 2003 Interesting little tidbit from the Revolution forums (where I like to lurk); As well as giving the Scummvm people access to the source for Beneath a Steel sky so they could support it, Revolution have apparently given them access to the source to Broken Sword 1 so they can support that too! And so makeing it possibly playable in Linux, MacOS as well as playing better on win200 and Xp You can read what Tony Warriner said in a thread on the forum here: http://www.revolution.co.uk/_forum.php?neuron=1&topic=734&open=1&page=0 Also, revolution recompiled the exe for Broken Sword 2 to work properly with XP. Mr T (Warriner) asked for volunteers to test it here: http://www.revolution.co.uk/_forum.php?neuron=1&topic=646&open=1&page=3 (not sure if hes still looking; twas a few weeks back) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragou Posted August 3, 2003 Share Posted August 3, 2003 It would indeed be great to play BS1 & BS2 in linux (and MacOS). The big problem with that is that smacker (the ingame videos use smacker) isn't available for linux unfortunately. I don't know how and if that problem can be fixed. All hail ScummVM and Revolution! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragou Posted August 3, 2003 Share Posted August 3, 2003 Actually, I think that AG companies should release the game engines (not necessarily the actual games) like FPS makers do (Quake, Doom, etc.). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomStLeger Posted August 3, 2003 Author Share Posted August 3, 2003 I was wondering it it'd be possible to recompress the videos to some other format? Scummvm already has support for compressing CD Audio to MPEG. Of course, it'd mean it wouldn't be as easy for non windows users to play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragou Posted August 3, 2003 Share Posted August 3, 2003 Yep, but there has been some talk about radtools porting smacker to linux, but then again, ScummVM will probably have to buy a license for both windows and linux-versions if they are going to play that. I don't see that happen. In other notes, I noticed that BS2 already is in latest CVS code (http://www.scummvm.org/downloads/scummvmwin32.exe for the windows daily snapshot. Go here for linux: http://scummvm.sourceforge.net/daily/). I have compiled it on my linux-box, but I couldn't get BS2 to work unfortunately, but it certainly is promising (although I would have preferred it if they had begun with BS1 of course ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moosferatu Posted August 3, 2003 Share Posted August 3, 2003 Excellent! Revolution Rocks. Thanks, Diamond. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ender Posted August 3, 2003 Share Posted August 3, 2003 Originally posted by ragou It would indeed be great to play BS1 & BS2 in linux (and MacOS). The big problem with that is that smacker (the ingame videos use smacker) isn't available for linux unfortunately. I don't know how and if that problem can be fixed. All hail ScummVM and Revolution! We've been given permission to re-release the videos in a different format (probably some form of MPEG4). Because Revolution rock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragou Posted August 3, 2003 Share Posted August 3, 2003 That is great! Really great! I already long to be able to play it in linux! (I didn't manage to get BS2 to work from the daily snapshot today, but anyway, good work ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomStLeger Posted August 3, 2003 Author Share Posted August 3, 2003 That is brilliant news. Well done Rev! And well done ScummVM! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ender Posted August 3, 2003 Share Posted August 3, 2003 Originally posted by ragou (I didn't manage to get BS2 to work from the daily snapshot today, but anyway, good work ) Yeah, well, it's nowhere near ready yet. All the output code (sound and graphics) is missing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragou Posted August 3, 2003 Share Posted August 3, 2003 Originally posted by Ender Yeah, well, it's nowhere near ready yet. All the output code (sound and graphics) is missing I really didn't expect it to be anywhere near ready. I always run the CVS-version of ScummVM and tries the new things I see (if I have the game that is). I ran CMI when Guybrush's head was reversed and similar strange things. Keep up the Good Work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not again... Posted August 4, 2003 Share Posted August 4, 2003 Originally posted by Moosferatu Excellent! Revolution Rocks. Thanks, Diamond. It's got nothing to do with Diamond. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragou Posted September 1, 2003 Share Posted September 1, 2003 If someone is interested, the scummvm now lists Broken Sword 2 as completable. I have not been able to do that, the game crashes on me too often while trying to play sounds, but I have been able to play a little in the beginning of the game. Amazing work by the ScummVM team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ender Posted September 1, 2003 Share Posted September 1, 2003 Originally posted by ragou If someone is interested, the scummvm now lists Broken Sword 2 as completable. I have not been able to do that, the game crashes on me too often while trying to play sounds, but I have been able to play a little in the beginning of the game. Amazing work by the ScummVM team. Yeah, the 'completable' rating was for a few days ago, before we added sound support in. That only went in recently, and most of the crashes were fixed today - so should be in tommorows snapshots/anon cvs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragou Posted September 1, 2003 Share Posted September 1, 2003 I try a new snapshot about once a week, so I didn't hit the best spot to try it, but from what I saw it looks really good. The only thing I complain about is that my computer is too slow to play in 2xsai-mode and other similar smoothing features. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomStLeger Posted September 2, 2003 Author Share Posted September 2, 2003 Wow! I really am amazed how quickly ScummVM have got this game working, it's so impressive! Thanks for the heads up btw Ragou. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted September 2, 2003 Share Posted September 2, 2003 All the Revolution support in ScummVM has suddenly put some adventure games on my plate that I've managed to never play but always wanted to (well not so much "always" wanted to play BS2... but now that I can, I will). Its quite fun Hopefully Revolution will, erm, be nice to the Mac and Linux users somehow when it comes to Broken Sword 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ender Posted September 2, 2003 Share Posted September 2, 2003 I don't want to create any speculation or put Tony on the spot, but we were discussing a while ago open-source alternatives to Bink. If he does go with a non-licensed alternative for the real release (at least on the PC version), then that does remove the main limitation against BS3 being ported to other platforms. However, it still may never happen. I'd offer to do it myself if my video-card could take the punishment, but alas it can't. If I come across a newer card sometime in the future, I might ask if he's amendable to it. Depends a lot on what technology the final version goes with (there is a Bink port to Linux and Mac, but it costs additional money to license it for other platforms and I doubt Rev wants to fork out the $$$ for just a few people , and any restrictions they have imposed by publishing agreements with the console-side of things. - Ender ScummVM Dude Originally posted by Jake All the Revolution support in ScummVM has suddenly put some adventure games on my plate that I've managed to never play but always wanted to (well not so much "always" wanted to play BS2... but now that I can, I will). Its quite fun Hopefully Revolution will, erm, be nice to the Mac and Linux users somehow when it comes to Broken Sword 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragou Posted September 2, 2003 Share Posted September 2, 2003 It would be nice if they did something like Neverwinter Nights. NWN just sells one version and lets people download the linux client/engine freely (which is of course rather useless without the actual game) from the net. That would give people the choice to run in the environment they like. The distribution costs for the linux client would be very low that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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