[Scummvm-tracker] [ScummVM :: Bugs] #14020: SCI: Jones in the Fast Lane store item animations cycle far too quickly

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#14020: SCI: Jones in the Fast Lane store item animations cycle far too quickly
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Reporter:  Purduecoz  |       Owner:  sluicebox
    Type:  defect     |      Status:  closed
Priority:  normal     |   Component:  Engine: SCI
 Version:             |  Resolution:  pending
Keywords:             |        Game:  Jones in the Fast Lane
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Changes (by sluicebox):

 * owner:  (none) => sluicebox
 * status:  new => closed
 * resolution:   => pending

Comment:

 I have a fix for this and similar inner loops, I'm going to test it for a
 few days before committing. I had considered doing this earlier, but it
 wasn't clear if it was necessary. Now it's clear! One of the themes of the
 recent timing changes is to limit our countermeasures to just their
 intended targets.

 @digitall: This game, and others, generate a lot of uninitialized
 parameter reads warnings. It's not related to this or recent commits.
 That's just what it does in the original. Most of the time they read an
 out of bounds value and then don't use it, so it doesn't matter.

 I'm under the impression the graphics are just supposed to cycle after
 delays, and change when you click an item. In the original under DOSBox,
 the graphics don't change when I mouse over selections.

 It looks to me like Sierra tried to reduce the delay in between items on
 this screen in the CD version. They definitely changed the speed values on
 this screen. If that wasn't fast enough for them, I can see them removing
 the kWait(1) line. I scanned all the games for comparison; this is the
 only one where they just removed it. Unfortunately, that means that it
 kept getting faster with faster CPUs. After my fix, which will restore the
 earlier speed, maybe we could do a small script patch to speed up this
 animation as intended. But I'll leave that up to you Jones experts. =)

 While I have you here: Is Jones CD audio working well for you? On the
 market screen, all the speech is stopping one or two seconds earlier than
 it should. I get the same results with really old ScummVM versions. Is
 that just me? (Maybe I don't have the CD mounted right)
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