On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Albert, James wrote:
>> James: Even if you don't, any help would be appreciated. We all try to
>> be helpful to one another, so don't hesitate to ask questions if you
>> need help!
> In answer to your question, YES I'D LOVE TO HELP!!!! I've been wanting to
> get my foot into a large programming project for some time now, but I didn't
> know where to start. I've been programming for quite a while, but have only
> worked with c/c++ for the past two years. While I don't know a lot of
> windows api stuff, or any Linux stuff, I'd be comfortable just debugging/bug
> testing for starters. Just tell me what needs getting done, and I'll see
> what I can do. Also, I do a lot of web/html stuff if you need any help with
> the web page, but that seems to be doing great so far. As opposed to the
> agi engine, I think the sci engine is a lot more robust and could be
> extended using plugings and other methods to support mp3 songs and different
> picture/media types. I think in the long run we could have a full fledged
> general purpose adventure game engine!! The only other experience I've had
> with sci is the pic resources. I've been trying to figure out why kq1
> pictures won't display on some screens so I've been writing a program to
> decode them, which has turned into a sci pic->scalable vector graphics (svg)
> converter. check out w3.org for more information on this, but basically svg
> is going to standardize vector graphics the way html standardized the web.
> Also converting the views to mng files (a variation of the png file format)
> is another goal I had in mind. In any case get back to me with anything you
> need done.
For a list of (more immediate) things that need to be done, look at the
TODO file. It's either in the root of the source directory or you can see
it @ http://freesci.linuxgames.com/TODO . Also, please look at the
Contribution guidelines @ http://freesci.linuxgames.com/contrib.html .
Tackling SCI01 pic support definitely sound like a good start (it's even
in the TODO)! If you have any questions, post them to the list and we'll
try to help out. (You may want to subscribe to the list if you aren't
already :)
> Also, I tried changing the s to 0 but I still haven't had any success.
> I've tried changing CreateThread in soundserver_win32 and SDL_CreatThread in
> soundserver_sdl with no success, however I did manage to get a crash box
> saying there was an error with msvcrt.dll instead of just freezing the
> program
Ah ok. Please make sure you are using a decently new MSVCRT.DLL.
You can get a shared components update, or it should be updateded when you
install Internet Explorer or some other package like that. Actually -- if
you have the Visual C++ 6.0 Service Pack 5 installed (and no other
application install has overwritten it), then that files should be fine.
In that case, I don't know what the problem is -- I'll try it in my win98
install after the win32 soundserver stabilizes and Christoph has a chance
to integrate all the patches from the past week or so.
Thanks for your help, it is greatly appreciated!
--
http://www.clock.org/~matt
