Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Some news about obscure games...

It's been a while I haven't posted something about what I'm doing... So here it is.

There's nothing new concerning Kingdom: The Far Reaches. I'm still waiting for a hand with the MVE player, and TMM (who implemented the MVE missing opcodes in ffmpeg) is still super super busy. So, well, let's consider it's rotting. :(

I made some very small progress on Adventures of Robin Hood (lilliput engine) on the sound, but it's still very imperfect. To implement it, I think I should add a mixer, we'll see...

More recently, let's say a week ago or so, I started documenting Escape From Hell. I currently have half of the functions renamed and most of the structures. I'm not really sure it'll be an engine for ScummVM as it doesn't use a mouse, but it's fun to make good progress on something I vaguely looked at more than 10 years ago. At the time, I guessed the compression format, picture format, and enough of the maps and monsters to display maps. I even brute forced the encryption...

All that is now far more clear with an eye in the binary :)

Ho, I forgot to mention: Escape From Hell is using a modified Wasteland engine, in case it rings a bell :)

Sunday, June 10, 2018

Drenn Weekly Post #3

So, here is the next blog post written by Drenn in the scope of the GSoC.

A lot of nice progress as usual, ... so don't miss it!

It's There!

Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Drenn Weekly post 2

You liked Drenn post #1? You'll love #2

Here is the link:
Drenn Weekly post 2

As I mentioned in the previous post, we still have issues with Planet for some reasons, so I'll keep putting links here until it's fixed, or until the end of GSoC, whatever comes first.

You could also prefer to directly check Drenn's blog. It's There!

Monday, June 4, 2018

Drenn weekly post 1

We had, and still have, some issues to synchronize Drenn's blog with planet (in the scope of GSoC 2018). I therefore decided to post links to his blog posts so it's visible on Planet.

Here is the first blog entry posted by Drenn more than a Week ago. He made impressive progress on his Star Trek engine. Enjoy!