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Here is a list of things we plan to do for the future. Note that we
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don't promise to do any of these, nor when we will do them. It's just a
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list of what we hope to be able to do one day.
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If you want to dig in, this is the stuff where you might make the most
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useful contribution. Note that this list is never complete, and may be
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partially outdated, so just because you don't see something here doesn't
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mean it is not important.
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Before you start work on something, you might want to talk to somebody
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from the team. This will help us to prevent double work, i.e. several
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people working on the same stuff at once without knowing about each
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other.
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Finally, always make sure to check out our bug tracker and our feature
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request tracker for things that need work
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# Docs, Web site
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General
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========
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* Add more doxygen comments. However, quality is preferable over quantity
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* Add port specific user documentation (dreamcast/palm especially). That
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would include things like:
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- How to use ScummVM on system XYZ
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- Which Palm / WinCE devices will run ScummVM, which definitely will not
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run it (or with which limitations)?
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* Update/enhance man page
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* Write a high level overview of how ScummVM and its engines work?
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README / Manual
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===============
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[Ender is working on a new multi-format manual/readme]
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* Would be nice to have a HTML version of the README on the web page (and I
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don't just mean a big <pre> section; rather I mean "real" HTML with links
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and lists and tables etc.)
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* Ideally, maybe we can convert the README to some meta format, and then from
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that generate the text README, as well as a HTML one (and maybe also PDF?)
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Some candidates:
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- DocBook
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- texinfo
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- nroff/troff + PolyglotMan (http://polyglotman.sourceforge.net/)
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- tbook (http://tbookdtd.sourceforge.net/)
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- xml2doc (http://xml2doc.sourceforge.net/)
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- ...
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* Some parts of the README probably could stand a workover. Right now the
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README is trying to be brief (it's "just" a README after all), but it really
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is the closest thing we have to a proper ScummVM manual. So either we just
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decide to turn it into a full blown manual, or maybe make a even shorter
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README, and a MANUAL with full details, examples, screen shots etc.
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* Restructure the contents of our README (our manual...) a bit. A rough and
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incomplete draft of how that might look:
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+ Introduction
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- What is ScummVM
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- History
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- Contacting the developers
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- Reporting bugs
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+ Supported Platforms
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+ Supported Games
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- Copy Protection
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- Simon
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- BS notes
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- Using mac data files
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+ Getting started
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- How to get ScummVM (binary, source)
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- Compiling (with more detail than now)
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- First steps (basic setup, getting a first game to run)
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+ Running ScummVM
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- Command line options
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- Hot Keys
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- Savegames
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+ Configuration
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- Using the launcher
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- All config file switches in detail
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- Graphics Filters
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- Music and Sound (mostly like now; maybe under the 'Configuration' section)
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+ Glossary? (explaining abbreviations etc.)
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+ Credits
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+ Index? (would be nice, for example 'fullscreen' would link to the hotkey,
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the config file setting, and the command line option)
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Web site
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* Add the "Manual" / README to the site
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* Redo the screenshots. Mostly this means adding more (and maybe removing or
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replacing a few). What I have in mind are that we follow these guidelines
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(which aren't set in stone nor laws, just guidelines :-)
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- For each unique game, provide 2-3 screenshots
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- Have at least one shot for each major variant of a game (with major variant
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I mean visibly distinct versions, like Zak V1 vs. V2 vs. FM-TOWNS; or
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Monkey Island EGA vs VGA vs CD).
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If I am counting right, that should place us at about 2*(18+2+1+1+1)=46
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screenshots, compared to the current 32 (and more if we start adding HE
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games).
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# Common code, infrastructure
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General
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* Revise the way "quit" is handled. Maybe add a global variable "g_quit" which
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we set when the application should be quit (e.g. when an EVENT_QUIT is
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received). This is useful if multiple levels of event loops have to be ended
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* Fix the Map<> template, make it more robust; maybe use a red-black tree?
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* Make some generic "EventLoop" API/class which all backends and the GUI
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use. Initially this would just call the backend poll_event() etc. methods.
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But eventually the EventLoop object(s) could be made by the backend.
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This may allow for more efficient CPU usage etc.
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The current event handling model essentially is polling: the engines run
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some kind of main loop, which, besides many other things, also polls and
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dispatches events. The idea is to turn this around: the event loop
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frequently gives the engine time to do these "other things".
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* Default to saving games in $HOME if in savepath is not defined maybe something
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like ~/Library/ScummVM/ for OS X and ~/.scummvm/ for everything else
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Build System
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* Add test(s) for backend usability in the configure script.
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* Enhance the Makefile-based build system to support VPATH and stuff, so that
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one can compile scummvm in a directory tree separate from the source tree.
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That would make it possible to build ScummVM with different build options,
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e.g. have one debug build and one optimized build.
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Fingolfin implemented most of this; the only thing missing is that configure
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should detect when it is run in a directory outside the source tree, and in
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that case generate a custom Makefile, with content like this:
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srcdir = /path/to/source/dir
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vpath %.cpp $(srcdir)
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vpath %.h $(srcdir)
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include $(srcdir)/Makefile
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* Allow automatic re-runs of configure (this would have to 'save' the values of
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env vars like CXXFLAGS and also command line params)
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* Add an install target to the Makefile - Copy binary, install manpage, add
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menu items, install README. See also patch #891909 (Gnome/KDE .desktop file)
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Audio
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* Get the high quality resample code to work
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[Fingolfin has started work on this]
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* Add a command line/config file option for the output sample rate (to allow
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for output sample rates other than 22050 Hz, e.g. 44100). Code should do
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sanity checking (e.g. restrict to rates between 8000 - 65535 Hz)
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* Clean up the "premixer mess": instead of having a custome premixer hook, add
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a "callback channel" or something like this. This removes special cases from
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the code, and it also makes it possible to apply sound rate conversion to
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premixers, which makes it easier to write and maintain a premixer proc.
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Config Manager
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* Add a 'notification' system. E.g. the SoundMixer could request to be notified
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whenever the value of the "volume" config option changes. In other words,
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instead of a "pull" approach (where each subsystem has to check whether any
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config option relevant to it has been changed) we use a "push" approach.
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Of course the current approach is "push", too: whenever e.g. the volume
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setting is changed, the code doing so has to updated the SoundMixer etc.
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That's cumbersome, and error prone. Would be much nicer if updating the
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volume config value automatically notifies the SoundMixer, iMuse etc.
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Files
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* Add a FilesystemManager or FileManager or so which should unify and/or
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replace the current File/FilesystemNode classes (and maybe SaveFileManager).
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The goal is to make these things as portable as possible while keeping it
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easy to use for the coder. Some new functionality we need:
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- check for existence of file/directory
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- check whether given directory is readable/writeable
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- convert FSNode into a string representation (for prefs file)
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- convert said string representation back to FSNode
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Of course that can be added w/o a FileManager class, too - but it might be
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nice to have all of these integrated.
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* Get rid of the hardcoded (sub)directory list in the File class. At the very
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least, that list should be set by the engine (since not all engines need all
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of the subdirs). Better would be to introduce a somewhat higher level API,
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a replacement for File::open() which (optionally) takes a list of subdirs.
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E.g. for Scumm, only certain files are to be expected in the VIDEO subdir).
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Game Detector
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=============
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* Improve the detector for games with all datafiles in subdirs (i.e.
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Broken Sword 1 & 2). This could work by letting the detector proc recurse
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into sub directories...
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Graphics
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* The Scale2x folks have an optimized version of the Scale2x (= AdvMame2x)
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filter, which we might want to adapt - if there is a benefit, that is. Asked
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the other way around: Are there any systems on which AdvMame2x is too slow?
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Same goes for AdvMame3x.
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GUI
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* Remove hardcoded 320x200 assumptions, use game screen size
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* Add ability to scale GUI (ie. to make the GUI less tiny in COMI)
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* Remove code duplication between EditTextWidget and ListWidget (i.e. text
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editing code; maybe we can factor that out into a common base or aggregate
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class... not yet sure).
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* Fix EditTextWidget::drawCaret and ListWidget::drawCaret support for alternate
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fonts (the current code overdraws chars partly, and relies on the fact that
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our default built-in font has a seperation pixel column on the *left* side;
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most other bitmap fonts have it on the right, though). To this end, we maybe
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should backup the background before drawing the caret, and restore it when
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erasing the caret.
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Launcher
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* Add more options to global options dialog
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* Add more options to game target options dialog
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# Engines / frontends
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General
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* Fix engines so they clean up after themselves, to allow proper re-entry
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to the launcher. See "FIXME: LAUNCHERHACK" in base/main.cpp
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SCUMM
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* Make it possible to restart games properly
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* Add method of setting initial debug channels from command-line
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* Possible implement a new resource manager, which then also could be shared
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by ScummEX. [Jamieson has some ideas about this and might work on it|
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* Figure out how to extract resources from Apple II and Commodore 64 versions
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* Figure out how to extract resources from Turbografx/PC Engine version of Loom
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* Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade EGA: Add inventory support for Macintosh version
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* Loom EGA: Add support for music and sound effects in Macintosh version
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* Support all Mac games without needing rescumm. These games being: dott,
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samnmax, dig & ft. See above point.
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* Add support for sound effects format found in Sega CD version of Monkey
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Island
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* Add support for NES version of Maniac Mansion
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* Add support for handling Kanji in FM Towns games (foreground is rendered on a
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second plane at 640x480), text uses Shift_JIS encoding
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[implementation now that currently depends on font rom, not needing the rom
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would be preferable]
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* Fix C64 costume code
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* Add support for TFMX music format in Amiga version of Monkey Island 1
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Check http://darkstar.tabu.uni-bonn.de/~neo/audio.html for music format
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details
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* COMI: Fix setActorChoreLimbFrame opcode (see bug #754419, "Wally's Fake
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piratehook still on ground after pick up")
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* V7-8 games: Implement smooth horizontal scrolling (instead of scrolling in
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increments of 8 pixels). See bug #629417.
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* COMI (maybe V7 games, too?): "Fix" CHARSET_1 behaviour when the room scrolls.
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In particular, when text is drawn via CHARSET_1 and then scrolling takes
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place, the text scrolls, too - but it really should stay fixed. There are
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several ways to do this that I can think of. One would be to use an overlay
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screen (i.e. use virtscreen 3, which isn't used at all currently) to draw
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the text; then "compose" that screen over the main screen.
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Or constantly (well, at least whenever the camera moves) redraw the text.
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That would require buffering the text; maybe the blast text code could be
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reused for this...
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* Add tool and support for compress *.la* file resources (ex. sounds) to fit
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on small devices
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* Fix codec44 for nut fonts
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* iMUSE Digital:
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- Fix music code (done, but not tested yet)
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- Add save/load code
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- Add code for MP3 and Ogg Vorbis compressed datafiles
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* SMUSH:
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- Add support for codec 37 opcode 1, for PC version of FT demo
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- Add code for MP3 encoded sound tracks
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* Humongous Entertainment Games
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- Add proper handling of sound and speech in Humongous games
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- Add support for returning the correct music status for the digital music
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used in 3DO versions of Humongous games.
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- Add sound pitch support and fix missing sound effects for piano mini game
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in fbear
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- Add support kernelSetFunctions/kernelGetFunctions, used for displaying
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images on birthday cake in fbear and images in painting game of fbpack.
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- Add rename/delete file support, to make file opcodes function correctly
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- Fix akos asserts in puttmoon, caused by butterfly at start, robot near
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garage and rock animations near rocket.
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- Fix freezes when letting butterfly into fireworks factory and playing alien
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tag in puttmoon
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- Fix bugs in actorOps case 218 implementation, actor backgrounds should not
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be reset
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- Fix creature behind garage door disappearing in moondemo
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- Fix remaining masking issues, when cars come out of garages in puttputt and
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when Putt-Putt gets off the chair in Cosmic Dust Diner of puttmoon
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- Fix missing sound effects in puttdemo
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- Fix 'costume x undefined x x' errors in veggie head mini game of fbear
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- Fix tangrams game on fbpack, only centre item can selected at the moment
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- Document and fix AKOS differences in Humongous Entertainment games
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- Support various newer Humongous Entertainment games
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Broken Sword 1 & 2
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* Currently BS1 & BS2 duplicate some code for MPEG2 playback. It would seem
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logical to share that code (for all the usual good reasons).
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We might even want to add a "video" dir (analog to "sound") for the shared
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code, if it can be rewritten so that it's reusable.
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DO NOT ADD SUCH A DIR without first consulting with Ender and Fingolfin !
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Broken Sword 2
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* Enforce ScummVM code formatting guidelines. (Mostly done?)
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* Encapsulate the code into sensible objects. (Partly done.)
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* Enable the CD swapping code. (Partly done.)
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* Support cutscenes in some kind of open video format. (Partly done.)
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* Fix the credits so they look more like the original. (Did we ever get the
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source code for that?)
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* Compressed speech / music clusters. (Some work done, but not in CVS yet.)
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SIMON
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* Add support for dictionary files in Amiga and Macintosh versons of
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Simon the Sorcerer 2
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* Add support for Protracker music format used in Amiga versions
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* Add support for drawing main graphics correctly in Amiga versions
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# Backends
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General
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=======
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* Several of the backend factory functions take config parameters. It should
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be possible to get rid of those once the config system rewrite (see above)
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has been done. In that case, the backends simply can query the config
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manager for these parameters (or any others they might like :-).
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* Change backends to directly access the config manager
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* Add API to query backend for a list of available music engines
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Useful for Options dialog
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* Sony PS2 Port
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* Update PalmOS port to run on PalmOS based Zodiac handheld
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[Chrilith is working on this via a Zodiac simulator]
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* EPOC32/Symbian port. Might be able to start based on existing P800 port,
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however that code seems to be old and would need extensive work to be
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usable in post-0.6.0 ScummVM. Note: NGage uses Symbian OS, too...
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* MS DOS port using Allegro <http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro/> and
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DJGPP <http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/> ?
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* Intent <http://withintent.biz/> port (already done by David Given, merge?)
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* Digita OS port? (play games on a select few digital cameras...)
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<http://digita.mame.net/reviews.htm>
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X11 backend
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* Update it to support the latest OSystem changes
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* Make it work with multiple bitdepths
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* Add frills used by SDL backend like graphic filters usage and CD audio
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# Tools
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Descumm
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* Turn it into a library, to be used by a command line frontend (like now),
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ScummVM debugger, and ScummEX. Basically, the API could consist of a single
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function, which takes a pointer to a memory buffer, its length, the Scumm
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version and optionally a game id. Also, it would get a pointer to a print
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function (in the case of the CLI tool, print to stdout; for ScummVM, print
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to our GUI console; for ScummEX, append to some window/widget)
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* Rewrite code to use 2 passes; first pass builds an intermediate graph, the
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second pass then tries to detect loops, break/continue statements etc.
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* Proper implementation of o6_startObjectQuick decompilation (see comment in
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descumm6.c). May requre rewrite of core program logic
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