I don't know for sure, but I assume this is an earlier version than what
GOG distributes? One possible hint is that the binkw32.dll in GOG's
version contains the string "Bink now requires Miles version 7" while
the one on my CDs does not.
When playing as Sophia in some scenes (such as in the Azores), using the
`Look at` verb on Indy would make her speak with Indy's voice, because
the script triggering this sentence for this verb didn't check or
include a line for the case when VAR_EGO is Sophia.
Fortunately, a different script does have this exact same line dubbed
for Sophia, so we can reuse it, as long as the audio offsets have the
values that we expect (and I'm only aware of a single MONSTER.SOU file
for this title, always in English and identical on all ports).
The engine would try to initialize the MidiPlayer for all DOS games, even the
ones that don't use MIDI (Personal Nightmare and Feeble Files demos). This
caused a problem with the new MIDI code, which does not set up the necessary
objects for these games and crashed on a null pointer.
This is fixed by adding PN and FF as exceptions to the if condition guarding
initialization of the MidiPlayer.
Fixes an error when playing a QuickTime video that has a mediaTime set
on its first edit. This was caused by mediaTime changes in:
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Those changes buffered frames during initialization so that the keyframe
and other frames don't play instead of the intended start frame that
mediaTime specifies. My mistake was that decoding isn't allowed during
VideoDecoder::loadStream(); VideoDecoder::setDitheringPalette() requires
that no frames have been decoded yet, and at least Director and Mohawk
call that.
Now the initial mediaTime buffering is delayed until the first decode.
Fixes bug #13479 where certain Myst videos error.
Fixes the opening movie in the Director game Chop Suey.
("Inaccurate verb rendering in Monkey 1 FM-TOWNS)"
Actually, this is rather an emulation of an original bug than a fix...
I have also included a fix in the charset renderer that I noticed, but I don't think that one actually matters anywhere.
I haven't added a fix for exisiting saves. It would require another version bump and it is really not important enough.
Fixes the police lights on the title screens of each game.
Only one of every eight frames in the palette cycle was appearing.
Thanks to @eriktorbjorn for reporting this
In 2010 a 10 ms delay was added to every kGetEvent call to prevent
maxing out the CPU when some games display message boxes:
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This rapid kGetEvent polling is called fast cast and it only exists in
SCI1.1 games and some SCI1 games. It occurs in an inner loop when the
fast cast global is set.
Now the workaround is only applied to fast cast games and only when the
kGetEvent polling occurs.
Removing this 10 ms delay from every SCI16 game cycle doesn't change
game speed by itself because the larger dynamic throttling in
kGameIsRestarting has been absorbing the 10 ms. But this does make the
other throttles easier to understand and work with, and solves minor
edge cases where delays from multiple kGetEvent calls add up.
