Additionally, the audio of any of those games could be handled by the IIGS without problems. ' Zak McKraken and the Alien Mind Benders'.Īre feasible for play on the IIGS, based on their graphics.
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The first choice might be to decide which SCUMM games the IIGS could handle, based on their graphics (after all, there's no point trying to get 'Full Throttle' working on the IIGS when it uses 256 colours and full screen animation!) The first five SCUMM games:
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If you haven't already shrugged off the idea, let's theorise about what would be the easiest approach to implement it. So hopefully instead of porting ONE game to the IIGS, you will have ported FIVE games to the IIGS in one go.
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Most likely it would require assembly language for speed and memory efficiency, but if successful, the IIGS could recognise the data resources from a selection of those games and run them using a native SCUMM framework.
#SCUMM EMULATOR MAC OS X CODE#
If (and it's still a big if) with this help at hand, custom code could be specifically written for the IIGS. The Wiki also includes an active developer forum and I'm sure they'd be quite interested in hearing about such an unusual project such as getting SCUMM games to work for the Apple IIGS. However, this is what I propose - SCUMM VM has a comprehensive Wiki that includes information on how SCUMM, the original game engine Lucas Arts created to aid development of their games, works from its scripting all the way to the compression algorithms used for graphic backgrounds and objects. Even if we could, I'm sure the IIGS couldn't execute the program fast enough for an enjoyable experience anyway. While SCUMM VM has been developed to be portable, there's no way we're going to get C++ code to compile on the IIGS. All SCUMM VM needs are the data files associated with each game. SCUMM VM can play the original games from any platform: DOS, Amiga, Atari ST, etc) on modern computers running Windows, Linux or Mac OS X. SCUMM VM is the most popular open source game interpreter project, which allows play of Lucas Arts' back catalogue of adventure games that use the SCUMM engine ("Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion") such as Loom and Monkey Island. Given that all four types of people aren't exactly numerous nor have a lot of spare time on their hands for the IIGS these days, a team consisting solely of programmers to make an interpreter could be possibly be a better idea, and the skills of graphics, musicians and game designers are already utilised within the games that are suited for play on the IIGS. Successful game design not only requires the talents of programmers, artists, musicians, but also someone who designs the game itself - the story, goals, gameplay and so on. The disadvantage is that you need to reverse engineer multiple interpreters to play the games.īut perhaps making a game interpreter for the IIGS makes the result of development kill 5 birds with one stone. The advantage of an interpreter is that you only need the processing, memory and display resources to play the game, not an entire system.
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Unlike emulators, which reverse engineer an entire computer platform allowing you to use, for example, Apple IIGS software on Mac OS X thanks to Sweet 16, game interpreters have reverse engineered the game engine, so that the data files of original games can be utilised just as they were originally utilised by their executable files for the platforms they were originally written (DOS, Amiga, Atari ST, etc). Recently, I became aware of adventure game interpreters. What I'm going to propose may sound preposterous, but I'm going to put it out there anyway, for the truly adventurous at heart. It's certainly felt there's been a resurgence of interest for the IIGS in 2008.īy comparison however, new software is lacking. What a bumper year it's been for IIGS hardware: The custom built IIGS portable, version 2.0 of the CFFA card (review coming soon!) and the updated Focus Controller and Sirius RAM by Tony Diaz. Posted by Alex Lee on 15 September 2008 | 162 Comments
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Game Interpreters: an Adventure in Themselves?