[Scummvm-devel] Idea: Extend game pages on Wiki to include tech specs

Marcus Comstedt marcus at mc.pp.se
Mon Jul 6 22:33:41 CEST 2009


Max Horn <max at quendi.de> writes:

> Hi there,
>
> how about extending <http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Template:GameDescription 
>  > to include tech spec data? Most notably, adding a "Resolution"  
> field which is set to something like "320x200 at 8bit" or "640x480 at  
> 16bit". That information is highly useful for games, and to quickly  
> determine whether a certain game has any chance of running on a given  
> platform. More things are conceivable. Like size of the data files  
> (can be a range if there are multiple versions); or whether we support  
> compressing the data files of the game; etc.

Sounds great.  Memory requirement would also be neat.  For example,
CoMI has a 8MB memory requirement with the original interpreter (this
requirement is listed on the box), but with ScummVM you need much more,
because in some places you can run out of memory on the DC, which has
16MB.


  // Marcus






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