[Scummvm-devel] Wiki Per Game Compatibility by Platform

[Max Horn]

Am 09.03.2009 um 17:36 schrieb MetaFox:

> I guess the best way to do it for users then would be to list the
> compatibility on each game page.  That makes it cleaner for users and
> developers both, because developers wouldn't need to see unneeded
> per-game lists and users wouldn't be confused about technical terms.

That seems to make sense. Very glad you are working on improving this,  
thanks :-). If nobody else objects, I'd say go ahead with this.


>
> I did a little bit of cleanup on
> http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Nippon_Safes_Inc.

Maybe make the "unknown" row yellow?

Looking at <http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/ 
The_Curse_of_Monkey_Island>, this uses a different format, with  
another row titled "game variant" -- which actually is redundant for  
CoMI, because there were no variants other than language ;-). So that  
column could just be removed.
OTOH, that table is missing most ports... Note that COMI doesn't work  
on various ports due to screen/memory limitations. This also holds for  
Full Throttle, The Dig, Broken Sword 1/2.

And on <http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Maniac_Mansion> it is yet  
again different, here, there are two gables (one for the "general"  
status of various game variants, and another per platform, but not  
stating which variant(s) this refers to). It's OK to have these two  
tables, but there should be a clear comment under "Platform  
Compatibility" that states something like: "The following table  
applies to all game variants listed above, with the limitations listed  
in the game variants table" or so (well, this could certainly be  
better phrased, I am just trying to convey the general idea :-)


Some more places you could harvest compatibility data from:

* Our README
* http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/SymbianOS_S60
* http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/SymbianOS_UIQ
* http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Nintendo_DS
* http://scummvm.drunkencoders.com/#whichgames
* http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/IPhone



> I used the http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Platforms/Overview page
> as reference, but listed it in a manner that should be understandable
> to users I hope.
>
> I also linked the datafiles to the datafiles page instead of
> redundantly listing it on the games page as well.

Makes sense to me.

> Anyone have any other ideas on what else should be added there that
> would be of interest to users?  Or any other suggestions?

Not right now, but I'll let you know if I come up with anything.

Bye,
Max