[Scummvm-devel] Joining the Director team

[Eugene Sandulenko]

Welcome!


Eugene

On Mon, 25 Nov 2019 at 13:45, Scott Percival <scott at moral.net.au> wrote:

> Hi ScummVM,
>
> My name is Scott, and I'm applying to join the Director engine team.
>
> I got interested in Director after contributing to a Kickstarter in 2014
> for preserving the works of Theresa Duncan. You can see the results at
> https://sites.rhizome.org/theresa-duncan-cdroms - basically a VNC client
> connected to an AWS VM emulating MacOS 7. It's an impressive feat, but it's
> barely playable if you aren't in the same country as the data center, and
> even with on-demand resource allocation the hosting costs do not scale.
>
> Director seems like a pretty good target to push for, especially given how
> popular the engine was. Like the Theresa Duncan CDROMs, a lot of important
> works will never be re-released due to the ancient format, or lost source
> material, or the dealbreaker of emulating a copyrighted OS. Easiest way to
> clear all those barriers is by adding support to ScummVM.
>
> So far I've been working on Lingo bytecode support for Director 4 and 5,
> with the initial goal of getting Chop Suey (
> https://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/chop-suey) to run. I also intend
> to document my experiences so that it might be useful for other potential
> contributors.
>
> About myself! I live in Perth, Western Australia; years and years ago I
> happened to run into Ender at his day job and asked a bunch of nerdy
> questions about ResidualVM. During the week I'm a software engineer, on
> Saturdays I am an instructor for Perth Parkour, and most of the other time
> I work on various reverse engineering projects. You can see other things
> I'm working on at my site https://moral.net.au, or on Twitter at
> https://twitter.com/moralrecordings
>
> Cheers,
> Scott
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