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by SimonKagstrom
Mon Dec 08, 2008 5:46 pm
Forum: The Junkyard
Topic: ScummVM port to Java: possible?
Replies: 33
Views: 42425

I've posted the initial parts of a port (currently fails with a linking error, much to be done still!) to the tracker: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2407058&group_id=37116&atid=418823 If someone would like to take this up, I'd be happy to assist with cibyl que...
by SimonKagstrom
Sat Jan 05, 2008 2:04 pm
Forum: The Junkyard
Topic: ScummVM port to Java: possible?
Replies: 33
Views: 42425

When you refer to a "jump directly to a different function", do you mean that you got one function calling another? No, calls are fine but jumps from within one function to within another is not. An example in MIPS assembly is below. fn_a: li v0, 0 jr ra fn_b: jal fn_a # t...
by SimonKagstrom
Sat Jan 05, 2008 1:32 pm
Forum: The Junkyard
Topic: ScummVM port to Java: possible?
Replies: 33
Views: 42425

I started looking at a J2ME port and have implemented enough to have it compile against the Cibyl subversion trunk with all engines disabled except AGI (I thought it would be good to start somewhere familiar :-)). It will not work yet since very little of the OS support has been implemented, but tha...
by SimonKagstrom
Sat Dec 29, 2007 9:36 am
Forum: The Junkyard
Topic: ScummVM port to Java: possible?
Replies: 33
Views: 42425

We do not use the C++ standard libraries at all, for portability reasons. Also, we already provide custom file system, savefile and "input file" handling APIs, as many platforms have problems with those. (Right now, our File API still requires fopen, though -- but this is going to change,...
by SimonKagstrom
Thu Dec 27, 2007 3:00 pm
Forum: The Junkyard
Topic: ScummVM port to Java: possible?
Replies: 33
Views: 42425

Is it a one-man project? Why did you choose MIPS? Sentimental decision? :) Well, it's open source so anyone can contribute :-). In practice, I've written basically everything except a set of bugfixes and some of the library support (most of which is imported from other sources). MIPS was chosen bec...
by SimonKagstrom
Thu Dec 27, 2007 1:36 pm
Forum: The Junkyard
Topic: ScummVM port to Java: possible?
Replies: 33
Views: 42425

See http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=113&highlight=java Apparently Sarien has been ported that way , but I don't know how much work that was. As the author of Cibyl, I can probably comment a bit on this and the possibility of porting ScummVM to J2ME devices with it. As for the effort o...