Season of Docs: Request for port information

Catherine Howley cadihowley at gmail.com
Tue Nov 3 20:29:58 UTC 2020


Hi everyone,

Hoping to pick your collective brains in order to create new pages for the following ports:

- RISC OS
- AmigaOS
- Haiku
- ATARI/FreeMiNT

I am totally unfamiliar with these operating systems, including how their file structures work. 

The information I need:

- How to install ScummVM on the platform - how to extract the archive, if applicable.  A description of the install process, and how to launch once it’s installed. If you can provide screenshots I would love you forever. (This information already exists for RISC OS so you can skip this one!)
- Transferring game files - can you transfer directly from game discs or are there format compatibility issues? Once you have the game files, where should you put them? Does Cloud/LAN functionality work for the port? 
- Paths - save game path, config file path 
- Control mapping - I assume this will all be standard, but if there’s anything unusual let me know.
- Port-specific settings - anything that needs to be set specifically for ScummVM to work on this platform, or settings that are applicable only to this port.
- Known issues - anything at all that’s out of the ordinary, or anything that doesn’t work as you’d expect. 

Thanks in advance for your time, I know you’re all busy people with lives outside this project! Feel free to email me or catch me on Discord @CadiH.

Cheers,

Cadi


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