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

[Max Horn]

Am 06.07.2009 um 22:33 schrieb Marcus Comstedt:

>
> 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.

Agreed. And maybe one day we can figure out a way to reduce the COMI  
memory requirements (although I wouldn't really trust memory limits  
given on the box of a program... ;)

Bye,
Max