Two questions about SCUMMVM (Mac)

Three-headed Monkey · Post by **Three-headed Monkey** » Fri May 26, 2006 9:54 pm

Hi, I have a couple questions:

ScummVM offers the option "Aspect Ratio Correction" but I can't decide which one looks better. Disabled the game looks squatted, enabled looks too elongated - and neither of the two are exactly in the same proportion of my Amiga originals - as I recall them at least. What exactly does this option? Why it was added?

The other question is: how do I force ScummVM to always ask for protection codes? I have read that is possible in the manual, but I just don't find where to input the command string.

Thanks! SCUMMVM rocks!!

clem · Post by **clem** » Fri May 26, 2006 10:46 pm

regarding aspect ratio correction:
http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0200586/ ... ution.html
(I hope that makes sense, open for comments on that one)

afaik it should look like under DOS/on the Amiga

commandline parameter strings have to be appended to the scummvm command on the commandline, or you have to add it after "scummvm.exe" in the properties of the link

hope that helps,
clem

Schnaks · Post by **Schnaks** » Fri May 26, 2006 11:34 pm

clem wrote:commandline parameter strings have to be appended to the scummvm command on the commandline, or you have to add it after "scummvm.exe" in the properties of the link

There are no properties for a link on the Mac.

You can supply parameters if you start ScummVM using Terminal, e.g.

$ /Applications/ScummVM.app/Contents/MacOS/scummvm --copy-protection

It should also be possible to pass commandline parameters with AppleScript …

Three-headed Monkey · Post by **Three-headed Monkey** » Sat May 27, 2006 2:20 am

Thanks clem, that was very informative about the resolution - I guess then that it's better to play with the aspect ratio disabled. Doing a quick poll around here, which one do you prefer?

Schnaks, I've located the terminal and opened scummvm with it... I type "-copy-protection" on it but it doesn't work - what's the exact phrase to input? thanks.

Schnaks · Post by **Schnaks** » Sat May 27, 2006 3:57 am

Three-headed Monkey wrote:I type "-copy-protection" on it but it doesn't work

Try it with "--copy-protection" (two hyphens) instead of "-copy-protection".

clem · Post by **clem** » Sat May 27, 2006 9:47 am

Three-headed Monkey wrote:Thanks clem, that was very informative about the resolution - I guess then that it's better to play with the aspect ratio disabled. Doing a quick poll around here, which one do you prefer?

Aspect ratio enabled for me - since it's the way it originally looked afaik (the BASS-round-door quirk is only an oversight afterall and was visible that way in the original version as well)

clem