Status of SCI games

Post by **eriktorbjorn** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 12:29 pm

soulafein wrote:Is there any chance of supporting Gabriel Knight in ScummVM??

It's a SCI game, so it should hopefully be supported in the future. I believe that game uses a more recent version of SCI than is currently implemented, so that future may still be far away though.

ezekiel000 · Post by **ezekiel000** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 3:18 pm

The demo might work but the full game uses sci32 (or whatever anyone wants to call it) which as far as I know has no or little work done on it.

Collector · Post by **Collector** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 9:08 pm

In the mean time you can try this:

http://www.sierrahelp.com/Patches-Updat ... s.html#GK1

MeddlingMonk · Post by **MeddlingMonk** » Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:26 am

derboo wrote:Well, it's a strange thing with the name nowadays, anyway .

The name could be updated to reflect how the project has expanded, but I suspect that ScummMadeTinselSciGobAgiCineAgosKyraGroovieYaddaYadaVM might be considered something of a mouthful.

djwtech · Post by **djwtech** » Thu Aug 27, 2009 9:50 pm

Is there anyway to enable the SCI engine on the nightly builds? I looked at the source and was going to build it myself with it enabled, but it started to get too cumbersome.

Any help?

Thanks.

bobdevis · Post by **bobdevis** » Fri Aug 28, 2009 12:31 am

You can't enable engines AFTER ScummVM is compiled.

You would have to get an alternative nightly compile from somewhere or do it yourself....

MeddlingMonk · Post by **MeddlingMonk** » Fri Aug 28, 2009 12:38 am

Cumbersome? There's no reason to look at the code at all if you're building for Windows, Linux or Mac OS. But I was under the impression that the nightly builds have all the engines enabled anyway (I make my own builds so I don't bother with the nightlies any more).

If you want to build it yourself with SCI enabled, just use the --enable-sci switch when configuring (or --enable-all-engines to get everything enabled). It's a little different for different systems, but on my Mac I just checkout the code and do "./configure --enable-all-engines && make && make bundle". On my Fedora computer, it's "./configure --enable-all-engines && make && sudo make install". I assume it's something similar in Windows.

Of course, you have to first have a dev environment set up already. That part takes a little work.

yeah yeah · Post by **yeah yeah** » Fri Aug 28, 2009 7:02 pm

MeddlingMonk wrote:Cumbersome? There's no reason to look at the code at all if you're building for Windows, Linux or Mac OS. But I was under the impression that the nightly builds have all the engines enabled anyway (I make my own builds so I don't bother with the nightlies any more).

If you want to build it yourself with SCI enabled, just use the --enable-sci switch when configuring (or --enable-all-engines to get everything enabled). It's a little different for different systems, but on my Mac I just checkout the code and do "./configure --enable-all-engines && make && make bundle". On my Fedora computer, it's "./configure --enable-all-engines && make && sudo make install". I assume it's something similar in Windows.

Of course, you have to first have a dev environment set up already. That part takes a little work.

can you hook up a copy for XP/Vista?

i had one nightly build that had scumm enabled, then decided to update again, then the SCI was disabled. this was a couple of weeks ago.

MeddlingMonk · Post by **MeddlingMonk** » Sat Aug 29, 2009 2:14 am

yeah yeah wrote: can you hook up a copy for XP/Vista?

Sorry, but no. I had mentioned Mac OS and Fedora because that's what I use. There is info on compiling ScummVM for the various supported platforms on the wiki.

arablizzard2413 · Post by **arablizzard2413** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 4:38 am

Hey not bad, in King's Quest VI I got all the way to the trap floor in the catacombs before it crashed. He was just about to light the torch...

You have to use a couple tricks throughout the game though, like using enter instead of a mouse click and switching between speech and text to get around a couple hangs.

Mataku · Post by **Mataku** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 2:25 pm

was the SCI engine disabled in the win32 SVN aswell? Just installed the latest (1.0.0pre043842) and no SCI games would run for me. Tried to re-add the games (had some on the list from previous SVN) , but they won't even recognized.

Graxer · Post by **Graxer** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 2:54 pm

Mataku wrote:was the SCI engine disabled in the win32 SVN aswell? Just installed the latest (1.0.0pre043842) and no SCI games would run for me. Tried to re-add the games (had some on the list from previous SVN) , but they won't even recognized.

Yes, it has been completely disabled in the Win32 version since 1.0 release testing started. This is a shame as I really want to play my SCI games!

KuroShiro · Post by **KuroShiro** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 7:07 pm

Graxer wrote:
Mataku wrote:was the SCI engine disabled in the win32 SVN aswell? Just installed the latest (1.0.0pre043842) and no SCI games would run for me. Tried to re-add the games (had some on the list from previous SVN) , but they won't even recognized.
Yes, it has been completely disabled in the Win32 version since 1.0 release testing started. This is a shame as I really want to play my SCI games!

Compile it yourself then

It's not actually that hard, there's some pretty good instructions on the wiki, though getting everything set up can be a bit laborious.

Collector · Post by **Collector** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 8:12 pm

Graxer wrote:This is a shame as I really want to play my SCI games!

See this.

filipetolhuizen · Post by **filipetolhuizen** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 4:06 pm

What happened to SCI? I see it being mentioned in the changelog of SVN builds but I cannot get any title to run.