Sanitarium Engine - All help is welcome

Bobbin · Post by **Bobbin** » Sat Dec 15, 2012 12:47 am

killcake wrote:Just stopping by to keep interest up.

My interest is definitely still up but then again I'm no dev. Last real commit must have been months ago, hopefully this doesn't enter the engine cemetary™ alongside Last Express, M4 or Unity.

CaptainJei · Post by **CaptainJei** » Sat Dec 15, 2012 2:00 am

Is Last Express in the cemetery?

Bobbin · Post by **Bobbin** » Sat Dec 15, 2012 11:01 pm

CaptainJei wrote:Is Last Express in the cemetery?

Not actually, but didn't see a commit for some time so it seems to be one of these engines developers suddenly loose interest in. But I might be wrong - hopefully I am

CaptainJei · Post by **CaptainJei** » Sun Dec 16, 2012 5:36 am

I see. From what I read in the commits, there seemed to be a lot in the game that is hardcoded, so I can see how it could be an intimidating and time-consuming process. I hope work will resume on The Last Express and Sanitarium. It makes me wish I was a better programmer.

topolinik · Post by **topolinik** » Thu Mar 07, 2013 8:36 pm

Guys, in which github repository are you committing latest updates at the moment?
Is it this
https://github.com/alexbevi/scummvm
or this
https://github.com/Littleboy/scummvm/tree/asylum
?

maximus · Post by **maximus** » Thu Mar 07, 2013 8:38 pm

https://github.com/alexbevi/scummvm

topolinik · Post by **topolinik** » Fri Mar 08, 2013 1:12 am

WOW! The tower level is really impressive and (it seems) quite complete. Well done!
Anyway, scummvm tells me to report these data to you:

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  &#123;"SNTRM.DAT", 0, "7cfcc457c1f579fbf9878ac175d29374", 8930&#125;,
  &#123;"RES.000", 0, "fa342da449bbf87c43b7c8fc51747ee4", 285198&#125;,
  &#123;"SCN.006", 0, "3a5b54da08198012dc0614114782d5fb", 2918330&#125;,

The game is the GOG version, but I patched it. A fan made italian patch is available in order to translate the game into italian, and so it is now.

About the gaming, I see the main character often yawns (he's supposed to do this when inactive for quite a long time, is he?), he can't turn off the alarm (quite disturbing, yeah) and cannot walk upstairs.
Maybe there is something more than the original game... I can't tell ATM. I'm sure your engine requires much less CPU power: the original executable (I run it with wine) always keeps my CPU load over 70% (intel T3400 - it's dual core!) but I attribute this to no-optimized code.

Surprisingly, the game is detected as the demo version. I own both and now scummvm shows two lines with "Sanitarium (Demo/DOS/English)", is this expected?

killcake · Post by **killcake** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 4:47 am

Just wanted to post my thanks to the developer(s) keeping this project going. It looks like there were commits only a few months ago. I was scared to think that this had been abandoned. Here's looking forward, thank you!

Mim · Post by **Mim** » Sun Dec 28, 2014 11:20 am

I own GOG version of Sanitarium but unfortunately it is rather unstable and often crashes. I noticed that Steam now offers the game too with some update that "fix crash & save issues". http://store.steampowered.com/app/284050/
Does anybody know if it is based on ScummVM code or is it only some minor tweak? Also - are there plans to include the engine to main ScummVM repository and support this outstanding game?

Post by **eriktorbjorn** » Tue Dec 30, 2014 2:01 pm

Mim wrote:Does anybody know if it is based on ScummVM code or is it only some minor tweak?

Last time I checked (which admittedly was quite some time ago), Sanitarium was nowhere near playable, so I would be very surprised if it was based on ScummVM.

Mim · Post by **Mim** » Tue Apr 14, 2015 10:13 am

Good news is that work on this engine continues and it looks that completion is in sight.

http://www.alexbevi.com/blog/2015/04/08 ... ine-update

fischkopf · Post by **fischkopf** » Tue Apr 14, 2015 4:28 pm

Awesome news!

clone2727 · Post by **clone2727** » Tue Apr 14, 2015 5:27 pm

Mim wrote:it looks that completion is in sight.

You have a very strange definition of completion.

alexbevi wrote:there’s no way to retrieve/use items once collected

alexbevi wrote:Encounters load, but you can’t interact with keywords yet.

Mim · Post by **Mim** » Tue Apr 14, 2015 7:04 pm

clone2727 wrote:
Mim wrote:it looks that completion is in sight.
You have a very strange definition of completion.

alexbevi "maybe 2015 will be the year we get this engine finalized ..."

After many years of waiting it seems to me very promising.

Bobbin · Post by **Bobbin** » Thu Apr 16, 2015 10:45 pm

That's great news, I stopped asking about the game, didn't wanna go nagging, but never losing hope about it being supported some day.