[Scummvm-devel] offering official Sierra SCI patches

[Filippos Karapetis]

Totally agree with this idea. The game patches themselves aren't big, as
mentioned, and it would be nice to have a list of patches for the games
supported by ScummVM. Sierrahelp's patch page is a bit crowded.

Also, it would be nice to include the aftermarket General MIDI support
patches for LSL1+5, Hoyle 3, SQ1+4, EcoQuest 1, Longbow and Fairy Tales
(from the Quest Studios page).

Regards


On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 12:28 AM, D G Turner <d.g.turner at ntlworld.com>wrote:

> Martin,
>   Seems like a perfectly sensible idea, especially as official patches
>   and only 6MB.
>
>   Sourceforge FRS seems a perfectly reasonable solution as well as they
>   are already hosting our downloads, demos and the freeware games.
>
>   I would suggest that you should speak to _sev or another of the Core
>   Team with access to the FRS to sort this out.
> Thanks,
> David Turner
>
> On 15/12/13 11:36, m_kiewitz at scummvm.org wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I had the idea to upload all the official Sierra SCI game patches to
> maybe
> > sourceforge (none of the interpreter or music driver related patches,
> only game
> > / script patches) and then directly link to those from our SCI patches
> wiki page.
> >
> > They are currently available on sierrahelp.com, but that site has both
> official
> > and inofficial patches mixed together, including fan written installers.
> > Inofficial fan patches may cause issues in ScummVM (some are even
> blocked) and
> > are not recommended. We should already fix all of the known unofficial
> patch
> > issues (like speed-related bugs, scripts bugs and so on) by the ScummVM
> SCI
> > on-the-fly script patcher. Yesterday some of the pages on sierrahelp.comeven
> > gave me a 404 error. Sierrahelp.com could also go off-line at some point
> in the
> > future.
> >
> > In total it's only around 6 MB, SCI32 patches included.
> >
> > We are already offering SCI demos via sourceforge download, because the
> previous
> > place went 404.
> >
> > Does anyone think that this is a bad idea? If it's okay, then would
> sourceforge
> > be the proper choice?
> >
> > Regards
> >    M. Kiewitz
>
>
>
>
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