Status of SCI games

clone2727 · Post by **clone2727** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 4:08 pm

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

Are you using a build of the trunk or the 1.0.0 branch? SCI only works in the former.

ezekiel000 · Post by **ezekiel000** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 4:54 pm

It won't be in the daily builds until version 1.0 comes out, but you can compile your own version from the svn trunk and turn on all engines which includes unfinished ones like sci.
I think there is a daily build around that includes sci but not the official scummvm ones.

filipetolhuizen · Post by **filipetolhuizen** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 5:35 pm

Everyday I get a daily build but it's been months that I cannot run SCI games with them.

clone2727 · Post by **clone2727** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 6:06 pm

You can always get one from buildbot...

filipetolhuizen · Post by **filipetolhuizen** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 9:45 pm

What??? a 130MB .exe?

LordHoto · Post by **LordHoto** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 10:05 pm

It is probably full of debug information (maybe even including the statically linked libraries as debug builds). After stripping the binary it is only 12M for me.

filipetolhuizen · Post by **filipetolhuizen** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 10:11 pm

Doesn't matter, now I got my SCI games working again. Except for Larry 3 that crashed when I tried to look at the golden sign on the begining

Mataku · Post by **Mataku** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 12:54 am

that's so awesome. and i see that the huge trunk file also has the 16-bit graphics enabled. 'Freddi fish 5' never looked so good

clone2727 · Post by **clone2727** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 4:10 am

Mataku wrote:that's so awesome. and i see that the huge trunk file also has the 16-bit graphics enabled. 'Freddi fish 5' never looked so good

Aw, you didn't like all the psychedelic colors from when it ran in 256 colors?

lwc · Post by **lwc** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 11:14 am

clone2727 wrote:
filipetolhuizen wrote:Everyday I get a daily build but it's been months that I cannot run SCI games with them.
You can always get one from...

But that's for Linux. What if I have Windows?

LordHoto · Post by **LordHoto** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 11:59 am

Actually the link from clone2727 did point to a Windows binary...

filipetolhuizen · Post by **filipetolhuizen** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 6:12 pm

From http://buildbot.scummvm.org/snapshots/trunk/ you can choose whatever version you're looking for.

lwc · Post by **lwc** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 11:54 pm

LordHoto wrote:Actually the link from clone2727 did point to a Windows binary...

Sorry, I just assumed that tar.bz2 means it's not for Windows...

Wow, it actually works! And even (at least partially) for SC1.0+ games!

Now how can I strip the binary and get rid of the 130 Mb EXE?

maximus · Post by **maximus** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 1:06 am

lwc wrote:
LordHoto wrote:Actually the link from clone2727 did point to a Windows binary...
Sorry, I just assumed that tar.bz2 means it's not for Windows...

Wow, it actually works! And even (at least partially) for SC1.0+ games!

Now how can I strip the binary and get rid the 130 Mb EXE?

http://upx.sourceforge.net/

LordHoto · Post by **LordHoto** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 1:15 am

maximus wrote:
lwc wrote:
Now how can I strip the binary and get rid the 130 Mb EXE?
http://upx.sourceforge.net/

Actually upx is an EXE packer. I don't know whether there's any download for a "strip" (that's the actualy name) tool for Windows, but usually MinGW/MSYS should come with a program called "strip".