[Scummvm-devel] Section 3.7 in our README (Smacker)

[Thierry Crozat]

Le 10 janv. 10 à 11:52, Torbjörn Andersson a écrit :

> Marcus Comstedt wrote:
>
>> Hm, maybe I'm missing something here, but doesn't this mean that  
>> it is
>> still not possible to run the game from the original CD?  Why does  
>> the
>> engine require a different filesystem layout from the one on the CD?
>> Is it because there are two variants (hi/lo) of the movies?  How did
>> Revolution's engine handle this?
>
> Apparently, "smackshi" works too since that's one of the  
> directories the
> engine looks in. (It doesn't look in "smackslo" however.) I guess the
> text could be updated to reflect that.
>
> I don't know how the original game engine handled things, but running
> the game from the CD is untested at best, and "impossible" at  
> worst. If
> memory serves me, some of the files that Broken Sword 2 (which I'm  
> a bit
> more familiar with) assumes are always present are only on the  
> first CD,
> so I guess they were installed to hard disk even with a minimal  
> install.

The sword1 engine has a minimal support for playing the game from the  
CD. It can detect if we are playing from CD1, CD2 or the disk  
depending on the files present. Also all the files needed to play the  
second part of the game are present on the CD2 (for example the  
swordres.rif which contains the offset of the resources in the  
cluster files is present on both CD - and is identical).
It is therefore possible to Add the game from either CD and start  
playing it, however it is not possible to play the full game on  
systems where the name of the CD appears in the path to the files,  
because both CDs have a different name. Also there might be other  
issues on some systems when the user has to swap CDs. For example on  
MacOS X, when the Sword1 engine ask the user to swap the CD, the OS  
refuse to eject the current CD because it is being used by an  
application. So if we want to swap the CDs we have to quit ScummVM.  
But because of the different name of the CDs it doesn't work anyway.

Thierry