<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>I might as well start by presenting myself. I have been lurking in the shadows of this list for some times but never introduced myself.</div><div>In short, I am not a member of the ScummVM team per-say, but I have been given a wiki account recently and started working on the manual (under the name of criezy). My only other contribution to the project that is worth mentioning is the patch I wrote more than two years ago to add support for the mac version of BS1. I am a full time software engineer (working in C++/C/Fortran) and when I come back home I am usually not very motivated to write more code.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Now, to come back to the subject of my mail, I have a question regarding organisation of platforms specific stuff on the wiki. Should installations instructions (both for ScummVM and for games) be on the platform page (as this is the case for the iPhone and PSP)? Should I copy them in the manual as well or only link to them?</div><div>Currently the manual has a copy of the iPhone installation instructions but point to the platform page for the PSP (because the instructions are quite long for that device).</div><div>iPhone page: <a href="http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/IPhone">http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/IPhone</a></div><div>PSP page: <a href="http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/PlayStation_Portable">http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/PlayStation_Portable</a></div><div>Installation instructions in the Manual: <a href="http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/User_Manual/Getting_started%23Installation">http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/User_Manual/Getting_started#Installation</a></div><div><br></div><div>The same issue occurs with controls (for the moment I have only put links to the platform pages in the manual for those though - see <a href="http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/User_Manual/Running_and_Using_ScummVM%23Hotkeys">http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/User_Manual/Running_and_Using_ScummVM#Hotkeys</a>).</div><div><br></div><div>I am not to keen of duplication as that make more pages to update and may lead to inconsistencies.</div><div><br></div><div>I propose to have on each platform page the installation and control instructions and only keep links to those in the manual. What do you think?</div><div>Or should the manual be as self contained as possible (for example if we want to distribute a PDF version of it with ScummVM)?</div><div><br></div><div>I have also a more technical question: I updated some screenshots of the ScummVM Launcher (with the new Load button) on friday night, however the thumbnails have not been updated (see <a href="http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/User_Manual/Running_and_Using_ScummVM#The_Launcher">http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/User_Manual/Running_and_Using_ScummVM#The_Launcher</a>). Are they supposed to be updated automatically after some time? Do I need to do something?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Metafox,</div><div><br></div><div>Concerning the question on the game pages, I don't see anything missing on the Nippon Safe Inc. page. On a more general note though, I find the platforms list in the table a bit confusing. I suppose it lists all the platforms for which the game was released, but then which versions of the game are supported by ScummVM? For Nippon Safe this is all of them but this is not clearly visible on that page. For Indy 3 I think the Macintosh version still has issues, but this is not noted on the game page. For the 7th Guest I suppose the macintosh version is not supported since it uses a different engine, but again it is not noted on the game page. These are just examples, but maybe we could decide for all games that were released on more than one platform to have a game variant section that clearly state which ones are supported by ScummVM, which ones are are partially supported and which ones are not. Or maybe color code the platforms on which it was released in the table (e.g. green, yellow, red), but the user might not know what this means.</div><div><br></div><div>Also I jumped on the wiki ship quite late and I suppose the questions you have been asking recently on the game compatibility are similar to what I am asking (i.e. should it be on the game pages? should it be on the platform pages? should it be on a single page with all the info?).</div><div>I think having them on the game pages (summarised as you did for Nippon Safes Inc.) is good. And having just a link to the game datafiles is sufficient as well.</div><div><br></div><div>I don't like the platform overview page. It might be good for developers but is a bit overwhelming and difficult to understand for users.</div><div><br></div><div>But then there is nothing else for the users to answer the question "I have a dreamcast, what games can I play?" (dreamcast is just an example), except when there is also a list of supported games on the platform page (e.g. the iPhone page has that, but what is the difference between "Fully Playable" and "Completed"?).</div><div>Maybe what we could just have on the page for each platform is just a sentence like "<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The PlayStation 2 port does not support Curse of Monkey Island.</font> All other games *should* work fine, although they have not all been tested.", i.e. list only known issues.</div><div><br></div><div>Thierry</div><div><br></div></body></html>