It was a mistake on my side,
these files needed to be decompressed via expand on windows before they are recognised by ScummVM.
I had only changed the extension from .ex_ to .exe and that was not enough

Maybe the Oscar the Balloonist problem will be gone then, but what can we do about cap&co? The binary .exe should be classified by ScummVM as Director even if it doesn't know the game.
Did the publisher do something different?

It was windows-x86-64-master-460a7c57 , but it does not matter that much i guess. I am well aware that Director is a mine field and the user experience can change a lot between games. This is not about creating bug reports because a game does not work, i don't expect them to. I expect scummvm to rec...

A Case for Cap &Co, Fall für Mütze & Co for example. CapCo.PNG Oscar the Balloonist drops into the country side also gives me trouble Oscar1.PNG Oscar2.PNG I am rather sure that both are Director games. The XTras folder even has the usual suspects: Oscar_Xtra.PNG Usually in such cases, Scumm...

Interesting, it installed the game, but it can't run it stable enough. I scanned the new folder again with ScummVM but it can't find a game. The binary for the first test case is labeled as "projector skeleton" as original filename and Version 5.0.1. Emulating win3.1 shouldn't be required ...

i was trying to check a few old games for compatibility that should be Director games. The Installer is too old and won't run on Windows 10 even with compatibility mode so i pointed ScummVM at the CD-root and was hoping to get some results , especially with "deep search". Unforunately all ...

Not every game has a folder layout that is the same on both the install medium and on the harddisk after installation.
Which one should be used when reporting games?

feda wrote: ↑Thu Dec 12, 2024 7:43 pm You sure it's not plain old disc rot?
https://tedium.co/2017/02/02/disc-rot-phenomenon/

On a few hundred sectors in a row that you can clearly see as a light ring on the disc? Possible but unlikely

I grabbed myself a cheap physical copy of an old Tivola game. To preserve its contents for longer than the disc lasts (it is 20 years old already) i wanted to create myself an iso image. It looks like this old childrens game (TKKG :Panic in a boarding school) is trying to defy my archive process wit...