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That mapping can take months, and then the ScummVM team has to convert the code into C or another language. We call the process of figuring it out 'mapping.'' all you're left with is taking an address from memory location X and use it as a pointer to another byte, and so on. Along the way you lose all the function names, all the variable names. 'We take the original binary, and if you know the process of compilation, you'll know that turns high level programming code into assembly and then binary code. You want to run the Macintosh version of Indiana Jones, which was in black and white? We can do that in ScummVM. We have games based on SCUMM engines for Atari and Macintosh and Apple 2c and Amiga. Secondly of course, not all games were written for DOS or Windows. Something like DOSBox, you'd need about a gigahertz to run it. Something like Monkey Island was written in the CPC era, on slow machines, and our requirements for it are about the same. This is the major difference between emulators, like DOSBox and reimplementation, like ScummVM. 'ScummVM started in 2001 and some of the platforms we were running on were only 25.

'Well, the key words are ‘these days’!' Sandulenko points out. It does however mean development can look quite slow on the outside, especially since these days you can drop more or less anything into DOSBox and have it at least run acceptably.

But Debian? Not really, at least not anymore.This hand-crafted approach has given ScummVM a well-deserved reputation for quality. About Gentoo for example, I'd agree that it's more specialized and has different demographic expectations (i.e. developers should adjust their expectations, and treat Debian users as a mixed crowd like in any other general purpose distro. I personally know quite a few Debian users who are regular casual users and gamers and won't even try building stuff from source without help. Notion that 'if you are not an expert - go to Ubuntu' is not helpful. Debian strives to be user friendly on its own. Regarding all Debian users as experts results in inexperienced users left out with little help. Not for the sake of flaming, but for the sake of fixing that perception for the mutual benefit of users and developers. The bulk of desktop users are on Debian testing.Ībout being unfriendly and not having 'noobs' - that's a wrong perception which I was trying to point out. Most often if someone wants newer packages on Debian stable they can get them from backports, but more commonly stable is just used in server installations. Aiming for Debian testing (+ Unstable) is more to the point.

I don't think you should worry about stable, it's not commonly found in desktop use cases. I will take a look at switching Debian x86_64 back to libpng 1.2 To be honest, we would normally expect Debian Linux users to compile from source code on their systems against their installed library sets, rather than use a third-party binary and thus the Debian x86_64 build has probably not been tested significantly. The production of testing builds is secondary and unless the various porters help to maintain the toolchain, it can age / go out of sync. It should be made clear that the primary aim of the buildbot is to give an early warning of compilation issues across all platforms. It looks like the libraries are very much older. Yes, it would make more sense and I didn't think about this at the time as I was adding missing libraries for at least 10+ toolchains, but that builder's library is badly out of sync with the Debian x86_64 libraries, so this is a bit of a hack.

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Schemrl: That is because the buildbot Debian x86_64 builder has libpng15 since the library update I did on Apr 19th 2014. Would it make more sense to use libpng12 in the daily builds then, until Debian bumps the version? Thanks for clarifying, for now manually placing neverhood.dat in the ScummVM directory works.īy the way, why do daily builds of ScummVM for Debian use libpng15? ScummVM seem to be configurable with libpng12 at the build time too, and Debian only ships libpng12.

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