As foretold by The Prophecy

DrMcCoy · Post by **DrMcCoy** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 2:02 pm

As some of you may already be aware of, the engines of Gobliins 2 and Ween: The Prophecy share a lot of code. The differences have now been taken care of and we therefore add it to the list of our supported games. As always, we'd like you, our users, to report any still existing bugs.

You know the procedure: Grab your copy of Ween: The Prophecy and a daily build of ScummVM, read the bug submission guidelines, find the bugs and place them in the REVUSS (our bug tracker).

...and thus will the bugs be wiped out...

fac · Post by **fac** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 3:56 pm

DrMcCoy wrote:
You know the procedure: Grab your copy of Ween: The Prophecy and a daily build of ScummVM, read the bug submission guidelines, find the bugs and place them in the REVUSS (our bug tracker).

...and thus will the bugs be wiped out...

Is the demo also supported? I have last SVN and can't start it. This is the message i get:

ScummVM Output wrote:Looking for gob

Trying to start game 'Gob engine game'
WARNING: GOB2 Stub! _word_2E8E2, _word_2E51F, _off_2E51B, _off_2E517!
WARNING: GOB2 Stub! _byte_2FC82, _byte_2FC83, _word_2FC80!
WARNING: GOB2 Stub! _byte_2FC9B, _dword_2F2B6!
WARNING: GOB2 Stub! _word_2F9C0, _word_2F9BE, _word_2F9BC, _word_2F9BA, _dword_2
F9B6, _dword_2F9B2!
WARNING: STUB: Video::initDriver!

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.

Collector · Post by **Collector** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:11 pm

I have just completed Ween and had absolutely no issues. Not only have the graphics bug in the intro been fixed, but both the graphics and sound somehow seem better. Great job. Just out of curiosity I tried loading the Incas and Lost in Time. They are all identified as Gob engines, but close on launch. I didn't really expect much more at this time. I can wait.

fac · Post by **fac** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 12:03 pm

Collector wrote: Just out of curiosity I tried loading the Incas and Lost in Time. They are all identified as Gob engines, but close on launch. I didn't really expect much more at this time. I can wait.

The demos/games that already show something with Gob engine are:

-Goblins 3
-Bargon Attack
-Fascination (http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=2507)

Until now i wasn't able to start Lost in Time (demo), but maybe it's the same engine. And Inca may use another engine for the "action" levels, so it may not be 100% supported by gob engine.

DrMcCoy · Post by **DrMcCoy** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 1:03 pm

fac wrote:Is the demo also supported? I have last SVN and can't start it.

Try again with the latest SVN version / next daily build, it should be fixed now. If it still doesn't work, please open a bug report.

Collector wrote:I have just completed Ween and had absolutely no issues.

Collector wrote:Just out of curiosity I tried loading the Incas and Lost in Time. They are all identified as Gob engines, but close on launch.

Well, my current plan would be Bargon Attack, cleanup, then straight to Gob3. From what I know, Lost and Inca are too different, they'd have to wait.

fingolfin · Post by **fingolfin** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 3:22 pm

Hm, can somebody tell me where I get these demos, e.g. the demo of Ween? Is it downloadable somewhere?

Collector · Post by **Collector** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:56 pm

I would be interested in any and all Coktel Vision demos myself. The only ones that I have are the Incas.

Post by **eriktorbjorn** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 8:28 pm

fingolfin wrote:Hm, can somebody tell me where I get these demos, e.g. the demo of Ween? Is it downloadable somewhere?

The Sierra Originals release of Gobliiins plus Gobliins 2 includes a couple of demos, including one for Ween.

Reckless · Post by **Reckless** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 1:04 am

Here are links to the demos taken from the Goblins 1/2 CD re-release...

Gobliins 2 1MB
Goblins 3 1.3MB
Inca2 0.6MB
Ween 2.2MB

I just zipped the folder as it was on the CD so there'll be extra files not required for ScummVM but may be useful when comparing DOS/DOSBox with ScummVM.

Please note that the server can be fairly slow to download from and the links will most likely not be permanent... Unfortunately I cannot get to my domain hosting package as it's a shared server with some major issues this evening

Collector · Post by **Collector** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:57 am

I just tried the Ween demo posted by the kindness of Reckless. ScummVM crashes on launch. It runs without issue in DOSBox.

DrMcCoy · Post by **DrMcCoy** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 1:42 pm

Collector wrote:I just tried the Ween demo posted by the kindness of Reckless. ScummVM crashes on launch. It runs without issue in DOSBox.

Hmm, it works here. Are you using the latest SVN version / daily build?
If you are, please open a bug report and define "crashes on launch".

Collector · Post by **Collector** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:02 pm

Sorry, but it crashes and closes before I can read the information in the console window. I suppose that I could try to get a screen capture of the console. The version I was using was the one that I was able to play the full version with. It is no more than 2-3 days old. I'll give the newest SVN a try later on after work.

clem · Post by **clem** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:48 pm

Collector wrote:Sorry, but it crashes and closes before I can read the information in the console window.

I think FAQ entry 5.6 applies: http://www.scummvm.org/faq.php#AEN188

clem

DrMcCoy · Post by **DrMcCoy** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:34 pm

Collector wrote:The version I was using was the one that I was able to play the full version with. It is no more than 2-3 days old. I'll give the newest SVN a try later on after work.

The fix for the demo is younger than that.

Post by **sev** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:57 pm

Collector wrote:I have just completed Ween and had absolutely no issues.

May you help us and submit several interesting screenshots? I suppose you may have several savegames. The screenshot submission guidelines could be found here.

Eugene

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