[Scummvm-devel] SCI engine development -- call for developers

[Eugene Sandulenko]

Hi Team,

This question was raised many times, and now it is time to talk about
it a bit.

Sierra Creative Interpreter support. Yes, I know about FreeSCI. But
several months ago a developer came out of the blue with almost
complete SCI1.0 engine. It is a completely independent work, mainly
based on hard RE work.

The engine is quite small comparable to FreeSCI, and its status could
be shown as following (quote from the original author):
>        SQ1 is completable for ~2/3 (you can't get jetpack, so later
> you can't enter Sarien's ship) KQ5CD is completable for about 1st
> episode (seems that you always being killed by desert raiders)
> 
>        LSL5 is completable for ~ 20% (seems that your flight never
> arrive at the airport)
> 
>        PQ3 and LONGBOW are runnable, but I haven't checked'em much
> 
>        LSL1 and SQ4 not playable (probably due to sound timing issues
> - it waits for event that never happens)
> 
> I also implemented save/load game capability and after you fixed lots
> of portability and other bugs the engines seems close to completion.

So, are there any interested developers? The engine is in a such good
state, so it could enter our SVN just in a several days of work. Then
we will have to address several issues:

  - Lack of music
  - Problems with Animate() call

Then playtesting and we may look into extending the engine to support
more games/engine versions.

As of FreeSCI GSoC task, it needs a free hands to help FreeSCI folks to
introduce it to their tree, and jvprat seems to be too busy for that.
A pity, I know.


Eugene