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  • ScummVM: ‘GIT 6b8fb196-pre1.4.0’ builds for GPH devices (GP2XWiz and Caanoo)

    Edit: These builds are now outdated and people should try the official 1.4.1 releases on www.scummvm.org.

    Most interested people will have realised that my ScummVM backends (GP2X, Wiz, Caanoo and OpenPandora) missed the entire 1.3.* release cycle leaving the official releases stuck back in the old 1.2.* cycle.

    There are a number of reasons for this (all my fault) but rather than dwell, lets just say I am trying to get them all back into shape for future releases. With that in mind I am going to start doing test ‘point in time’ builds of the code for various devices when things reach a point that I would like some community testing done.

    The first of these test releases is for the GP2XWiz and Caanoo. The GP2X build will follow once I nail the last annoying little input bug that is causing the cursor to go off for a wonder on it’s own Winking smile(simple bug I am sure but you know how it is when you stare at something). Then I will turn to fixing up the OpenPandora backend.

    They have been built from the main ScummVM GIT (Revision:  6b8fb196cbd58e20ef57bf367d5ecbf0ee2ebdad).

    These builds exist purely to get some feedback and testing from the community so I can try and get a good solid release done when we get into the next official ScummVM release cycle.

    If your not interested in testing and providing feedback (and dealing with the odd issue) please stick with the old 1.2.* releases. These are not robust, fully tested release builds but I am also pretty sure they will not eat or damage your GPH device.

    Note: Please don’t mirror or hotlink these preview/test/alpha etc. releases or put them on download services but rather, direct people to this page.

    This helps me ensure that users always have the most recent versions and cuts down on me being requested to support ancient releases.

    Also note that these test releases are not officially (or unofficially) supported Winking smile.

    They are built from the new unified ScummVM backend for all the GPH devices (to make supporting them somewhat easier for me and to cut out the rot that had set into the old dedicated stand alone GP2X backend).

    All the engines enabled in configure are included in this build but I make no promises about the usability of any WIP game engine.

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  • ScummVM: “1.2.1 – Børk Børk Børk release”.

    It’s been a hectic few weeks but I finally had time to get the 1.2.1 builds uploaded for my all backends following the main Dec. 19th release. Sorry about the delay Winking smile.

    The 1.2.1 release is mainly a bugfix and cleanup release for 1.2.0 and also introduces some additional translations of the GUI.

    There are few changes to my backend code but all the core changes are rolled in.

    Oh, I also just noticed the date so “Happy New Year” everybody.
    Maybe I should try and find more hacking time in 2011 Open-mouthed smile.

    Providing feedback:

    If you would like me to consider a feature or fix a bug in my backends help me to help you by ensuring the reports end up recorded in official places.

    Downloads:

    All the 1.2.1 releases including my GP2X/GP2XWiz/Caanoo and OpenPandora backends can me found on the main ScummVM download site.

      • ScummVM’s Main Download Page: download

  • ScummVM: “1.2.0 – FaSCInating release”.

    This post is a few days late but as all my releases are now uploaded and available I thought it was work announcing the release.

    The entire ScummVM team is rather proud of this release and you can read the official announcement here. One of the major ‘headline features’ is that this is the first release to feature the fruits of the integration/refactoring of the FreeSCI codebase and it’s substantual enhancement and extension by our own SCI engine team.

    There are also enhancements for several engines and the addition of support for “Fascination” (An amusing risqué point and click adventure from Coktel) in the Gob engine.

    From my point of view the 1.2.0 release marks the 1st official release of 2 new device backends/ports I have put together (GPH Caanoo and OpenPandora) and also features quite a few enhancements and speedups to my existing GP2X and GP2XWiz backends.

    It also marks the official release of new backends for Android and Dingux and the unfortunate retirement of the venerable old PalmOS backend.

    The upshot is that this should be our best release yet and I would certainly recommend this release over any older versions of ScummVM for the devices I support.

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  • ScummVM: “1.2.0 preview 1” for the OpenPandora.

    EDIT: This release has been superseded, please get the latest release.

    This post is to announce the release of a testing preview of the upcoming 1.2.0 ScummVM release for the OpenPandora handheld.

    It is a little later (and a bit close to the final 1.2.0 release date) than I would have liked but that’s real life for you, always getting in the way of perfectly good hacking time Sad smile.

    This release supersedes any recent ‘SVN’ builds you may be using and should provide a very good indication of what to expect in the final 1.2.0 release for the OpenPandora.

    Note: Please don’t mirror or hotlink these preview/test/alpha etc. releases or put them on download services but rather, direct people to this site.

    This helps me ensure that users always have the most recent versions.

    Also note that these test releases are not officially (or unofficially) supported Winking smilebut I will help if I can.

    I am hoping to get at least another preview release out for the OpenPandora before the final 1.2.0 release as I carry on fixing bugs. This is why it is important to provide feedback, patches, fixes etc.

    Please give these releases a go and provide feedback.

    Noteworthy features:

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  • ScummVM: “1.2.0 preview 1” for GPH devices (GP2X, Caanoo & GP2X Wiz).

    EDIT: This release has been superseded, please get the latest release.

    This post is to announce the release of a testing preview of the upcoming 1.2.0 ScummVM release for the GPH (GamePark Holdings) devices I support.

    This release supersedes recent ‘SVN’ builds as should provide a very good indication of what to expect in the final 1.2.0 release.

    Note: Please don’t mirror or hotlink these preview/test/alpha etc. releases or put them on download services but rather, direct people to this site.

    This helps me ensure that users always have the most recent versions.

    Also note that these test releases are not officially (or unofficially) supported Winking smilebut I will help if I can.

    I am hoping to get at least another preview release out for the GPH devices before the final 1.2.0 release as I carry on fixing bugs. This is why it is important to provide feedback, patches, fixes etc.

    Please give these releases a go and provide feedback.

    Noteworthy features:

    Below are the main features and fixes added with this new release.

    ALL:

    Changes to the way the music drivers are loaded (should fix game loading issues).

    Performance improvements.

    Add support for TouchScreen ‘Tap Modes’, Left Click, Right Click and Hover.

    GP2X:

    Performance tweaks/code clean-up (quite noticeable in some areas, not giving up on the old GP2X any time soon).

    Revised the button layout (please read http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=GP2X for more info), feedback on the button layouts is appreciated.

    GP2X Wiz:

    Fixes to 16 bit graphics support (still not sure this is 100% working well).

    Revised the button layout (please read http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=GP2XWiz for more info), feedback on the button layouts is appreciated.

    Caanoo:

    Revised the button layout (please read http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=Caanoo for more info), feedback on the button layouts is appreciated.

    TODO List:

    ALL:

    Add support for a ‘Left Handed Mode’ (swapping the Left and Right trigger behaviour).

    Make the ‘Trigger Tap’ configurable by the user.

    Anything on the TODO may not happen in time for the 1.2.0 release, it is all rather dependent on my free time and that is at a premium at the moment.

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  • ScummVM: “SVN r52631” builds for the Caanoo and GP2X Wiz.

    EDIT: This release has been superseded, please get the latest release.

    This is just a quick post is to announce a new set of SVN builds of ScummVM mainline code for the GP2X Wiz and new Caanoo.

    Note: Please don’t mirror or hotlink these preview/test/alpha etc. releases or put them on download services but rather, direct people to this site.

    This helps me ensure that users always have the most recent versions.

    Also note that these test releases are not officially (or unofficially) supported Winking smilebut I will help if I can.

    This release is mainly to give users a chance to preview updates to some of my ScummVM backends and try a bug fixed version of the Caanoo port with working controls. They are not by any means bug free.

    All of my backends will get further preview/test releases before the 1.2.0 release as I carry on fixing bugs.

    These releases are built straight from the mainline trunk ScummVM code for the given SVN revision number.

    OpenPandora and original GP2X ScummVM SVN releases should be ready late next week (very busy with work at the moment). The GP2X code is being merged in with the Wiz and Caanoo to create a GPH backend so expect the GP2X to get all the new features from it’s siblings. The OpenPandora code has now been merged into ScummVM but is still in need of a lot of bug fixing.

    Please give these releases a go and provide feedback.

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  • ScummVM: “SVN r52440” builds for the Caanoo and GP2X Wiz.

    “Edit 07/09/2010: These builds have been superseded. Please get the latest ones.”

    This is just a quick post is to announce a set of SVN builds of ScummVM mainline code for the GP2X Wiz and new Caanoo,.

    “Edit 05/09/2010: Thanks for the feedback on the control issues on the Caanoo release, a fix is in the works.”

    This release is mainly to support SCI testing and give users a chance to preview updates to some of my ScummVM backends.

    These releases are build straight from the mainline trunk ScummVM code for the given SVN revision number.

    An OpenPandora and original GP2X ScummVM SVN release should follow next week(ish). Been a little busy to track down some bugs in them.

    Note: Please don’t mirror or hotlink these preview/test/alpha etc. releases or put them on download services but rather, direct people to this page.

    This helps me ensure that users always have the most recent versions.

    Also note that these test releases are not officially (or unofficially) supported Winking smile.

    Please give these releases a go and provide feedback.

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  • ScummVM: Very belated 1.1.1 release for the GP2X Wiz

    While this is a little late to say the least (better late than never and all that, I mean it’s only 3 months late Surprised smile) I have finally managed to get my hands on a working GP2X Wiz, some all important free time and motivation, and built up and tested the GP2X Wiz backend for the 1.1.1 release following on from the official announcement.

    This post is also an announcement of the GP2X backend release as I forgot to post about it at the time despite the fact it got uploaded and released only a few days late ;) .

    I have not had a great deal of time recently to work on these releases so the backends are largely the same as the previous releases with just the needed changes to support all the fancy new things in the ScummVM core. No reworking of the control system or the like has been done yet (it’s still on my TODO).

    Some of the highlights of the changes 1.1.1 bring, that benefit the GP2X and GP2X Wiz, include 2 completely new engines and games, Dragon History (available free from here) and TeenAgent (available free from GOG.com). Also new is 16bit graphics support, which allowed us to add support for a whole bunch of newer Humongous Entertainment games for kids and improved support for the Amiga versions of Monkey Island, Legend of Kyrandia and Future Wars.

    Please provide feedback in the usual places on these releases and enjoy using them.

    Platform specific restrictions:

    Each of the releases has a small number of restrictions that have an affect on the games/engines you are able to use with each platform.

    GP2X: The biggest restriction with this platform is the overhead (and crudeness) of the downscaling when using 640*480 high resolution games on the 320*240 screen making such games perform poorly and look, well, bad.

    GP2X Wiz:  The downscaling support is a relatively recently added feature to the Wiz backend and while it looks a lot better than the GP2X, some issues still remain with high resolution games exhibiting ‘tearing’ when updating the screen under some circumstances.

    Unfortunately this seems to be an exhibit of the Wiz screen tearing bug and while efforts have been taken to minimise it in this release it the problem has not totally gone away.

    Providing feedback:

    If you would like me to consider a feature or fix a bug help me to help you by ensuring the reports end up recorded in official places.

    Downloads:

    What’s Next:

    Now I have the outstanding official 1.1.1 releases out of the way my plan is to get test releases from the main ScummVM trunk codebase featuring the ‘new’ SCI engine out as soon as I get time for the GP2X and Wiz, hopefully I will also be including support for the new GPH Caanoo at the same time.

    I also plan to update the OpenPandora release at the same time.

    Regards,

    John Willis

  • ScummVM: Unofficial test “1.1.1” release for the OpenPandora.

    EDIT: This release has been superseded, please get the latest release.

    This is just a quick post to let people know I have uploaded a test build of ScummVM for the OpenPandora. For those that care, the belated GP2X Wiz 1.1.1 releases will follow when I get back from a few days away at some point next week.

    Note: Please don’t mirror or hotlink preview/test/alpha etc. releases or put them on download services but rather, direct people to this page. This helps me ensure that users always have the most recent versions and stops me being swamped with requests for help with ancient test versions.

    Nothing especially exotic about the code as it stands (it’s mainly a plugin enabled ARMv7 optimised build of ScummVM packaged up as a PND file) but it works quite well and at least a fair selection of games are very playable.

    I am only releasing this so people have some ScummVM goodness for their new OpenPandora consoles (you can stop emailing me now ;-) ). It’s largely untested and has been hanging around on my build box for a few days. All 1.1.1 game engines should be working but I have only tested SCUMM, Tinsel (Discworld) and SAGA, and played a little bit of The Curse of Monkey Island ;) .

    It does not represent what the final backend will look like and a lot of the OpenPandora specific graphic and input handling is disabled in this release (nothing is mapped to the DPad and game buttons/triggers for example). It does support the keyboard, nubs and touchscreen fine however (for the most part) and most regular ScummVM keyboard shortcuts should work fine.

    My plan is to commit the changes to the ScummVM codebase as soon as I have things cleaned up a bit and make the backend official (and manage releases accordingly) but as I am now away for the next few days I thought I would do a quick test release 1st so people have something to mess about with it on there new toy.

    To install just download and unzip the file and copy the resulting scummvm-openpandora-2010-05-26.pnd to the following folder on your SD card (or USB2 stick):

    /pandora/menu –> This will cause the ScummVM app icon to show up in the Xfce menu sorted by category.
    /pandora/desktop –> This will cause the ScummVM app to appear as an icon on the Desktop of Xfce.

    Either folder will also ensure the application icon shows up in MiniMenu.

    To run, just select the icon as normal, the ScummVM GUI will start up and you can add games as you would normally do with any other ScummVM release (including Mass Add).

    Note: On the OpenPandora /media is the root mount folder for removable storage devices. Your SD cards are known by the driver name (MMC) and the card number so the root of your 1st SD card is normally /media/mmcblk0p1, 2nd SD card is normally /media/mmcblk1p1. When you 1st add games you will need to select the SD card you are using (or a folder on your USB2 stick).

    Downloads:

    Feedback:

    Any feedback, please leave comments or drop me a mail.

    Regards,

    John Willis

  • ScummVM: 1.0.0 “Shiny Logo” released for the GP2X and GP2XWiz

    This is just a quick post is to announce the 1.0.0 releases of the ScummVM for both the GP2X and the GP2X Wiz following on from the official announcement.

    Please provide feedback on these releases and enjoy using them, this is a huge milestone for the ScummVM project and we are all very proud of this release.

    New features since the 1.0.0 RC1 for my backends:

    Below are the main features and fixes added with this new release from the earlier RC1 release.

    Both releases feature additional ARM assembly optimised routines and tweaks to the build system along with a myriad of small ‘nips and tucks’.

    There are also further tweaks to refine the use of the “Return to Launcher” and “Global Main Menu” features (remember that Left Trigger and Select/Home/Menu will bring up the Global Main Menu in any game).

    This is in addition to the hundreds (litterally) of bug fixes that have gone into the core and game engines for this release from the ScummVM development team.

    Supported engines:

    Both releases feature support for all the game engines that are due to be included with the 1.0.0 release.

    This includes support for high resolution games.

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