[Scummvm-devel] Scummvm-devel Digest, Vol 104, Issue 14

[Johannes Schickel]

On 02/25/2015 09:16 PM, m_kiewitz at scummvm.org wrote:
> I never bought those on GOG and their page doesn't mention Dos-Box either, so I couldn't know. I mean there should be a "Powered by Dos-Box" then, right?

See the relevant discussion that we specifically asked for this and the 
DOSBox team did not (so far).

> But sure, that explains it. Still it's quite weird, that they don't use ScummVM for those games as well, especially because we handle Hires King's Quest 6 including dual mode, which Dos-Box simply can't (hires without a Windows 3.11 installation and dual-mode at all).

I was always curious whether we can get any reasons from GoG on why they 
use DOSBox or why they use ScummVM. Maybe there's some reasons/bugs we 
are not aware of which prevent them from using ScummVM. Getting QA 
results from them would be cool too.

> btw. is there a known problem with the scummvm.org email server? I just got this email right now instead of yesterday.

It is because you seem to use digests. That means instead of receiving 
an mail for every mail sent to the mailing list, it will periodically 
send you combined messages (IIRC). The best thing would be to change 
your subscription to non-digest mode.

// Johannes

>> Last time I checked the GoG releases of Sierra games did not bundle
>> ScummVM but use DOSBox. Thus, I would be surprised if they would put a
>> "Powered by ScummVM" there. So, I think that seems fine. It would
>> be
>> really strange to give props to ScummVM when they use DOSBox and really
>>
>> should give props to DOSBox instead of our project.
>>
>> // Johannes
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