Non-English versions of the game include a charsize.dta/charszgr.dta
which specifies the width to use when printing glyphs from the character
set to the screen. ScummVM includes a hard-coded lookup table for games
which do not ship with such a file.
For some reason, our current hard-coded table includes widths for all
possible glyphs except one. This fix allows to properly play the German
version, which needs the character 'ß' (eszett), even when charszgr.dta
is missing.
Fixes Trac#4602.
Before, the ingame load dialog pretended to allow loading savegames from
all possible slots even if no savegames existed.
This introduces the original interpreter's behavior which instead loads
a resource string from infobar.txt informing the user that no savegames
are available.
This ensures that the calculated offsets for Bud and Billy are [0,2] px
and follow the sequence 0px -> 1px -> 2px -> 1px -> 0px as opposed to
the earlier 0px -> 1px -> 2px -> 3px -> 0px which resulted in them
teleporting back to their original location and on top of that being
out of sync with the boat.
Fixes Trac#6643.
This flag is removed for a few reasons:
* Engines universally set this flag to true for widths > 320,
which made it redundant everywhere;
* This flag functioned primarily as a "force 1x scaler" flag,
since its behaviour was almost completely undocumented and users
would need to figure out that they'd need an explicit non-default
scaler set to get a scaler to operate at widths > 320;
* (Most importantly) engines should not be in the business of
deciding how the backend may choose to render its virtual screen.
The choice of rendering behaviour belongs to the user, and the
backend, in that order.
A nearby future commit restores the default1x scaler behaviour in
the SDL backend code for the moment, but in the future it is my
hope that there will be a better configuration UI to allow users
to specify how they want scaling to work for high resolutions.
Recently we started to use this as new semantics, although in the past
we used simly <engine>_H. Now these guard defines are consistent with
rest of the files which are used in the engines.
I'm told not every version of the game plays this. Mine does though,
and I see no harm in adding it for all versions. The code is robust
enough to work even if the "introdub.raw" file is missing completely.
This affected Bud's line, "Is that the great mystery invention you
had hidden away?" in the intro, making it very hard to hear, and
possibly other sounds as well. I don't know if this was a bug in
the original game, but it's much closer to the English version I
own now.
