On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Stuffed Crust wrote:

> > Primary goals:
> >         * Auto-detect version number from Sierra's executable
>
> Perhaps a better idea would be to create a database of the md5 checksums
> of the sciv.exe/sierra.exe, and look up the interpreter that way?

I think this is what Sarien does. Actually, I think they MD5 the resource
files (WORDS.TOK for them) and use those to determine what version to
emulate. EXEs would be fine as well, though.


> >         * Add PCM output support and one driver to use it
> > -- These two are urgent, IMHO. Even if it's just Tandy support...
>
> Heh.  Screw Tandy support; I'm shooting for PC speaker emulation.  :)

Tandy support is in Sarien and works on win32, solaris, linux, and some
others. It might be a good idea to look at that code for reference.


> (Oh, for a bit of tracker wisdom..)

Hate to sound like a broken record, but Claudio knows a thing or two about
trackers, if memory serves.


> Hmm.  Pure glx? We could always use SDL's hooks into OpenGL to make it
> more more easily portable.  But I don't see glx really gaining us
> anything..

It would eliminate the dependency on the SDL library in the win32 port
(and potentially other ports that only have SDL as their gfx driver).


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