ScummVM fixing stream! In which we continue trying to fix The Journeyman Project, one of the first major Macromedia Director games to exploit every engine loophole. Warmup: singing and/or learning
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Transfer Point is a point-and-click adventure game for Macintosh. It was made in World Builder and MacPaint, and it fits on an 800K floppy disk. It also has an egret. Coming soon for most web browsers, or as a download to play on your classic Mac. robotspacer.software/transfer-poi... #MARCHintosh
Fool's errand progress report: added saving and loading, and the jigsaw module fully works. This code is used for several jigsaw puzzles with different dimensions, and is quite nice to use thanks to the click-to-drag multiselect feature.
Fool's Errand porting stream! The first puzzle type is working, maybe tonight we can get that number to two.
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Calling artists with content on Floppies or CD-ROMs*!!
The Digital Heritage Lab is sharing access to our specialist disk imaging equipment. We will show you how to preserve your obsolete disks* (CD-ROMs, Floppies, Zips).
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Sad to see Professor Finkle pivot to the "No chocolate, only broccoli" school of edutainment
No songs?!
You might ask "what happens if you set the colour depth to 32-bit mode out of spite" and don't worry they thought of that
Here's maybe my favourite screen of the original Professor Finkle
Oh lord they made more of these didn't they
Fool's Errand progress report: intro is done, we're now porting the game itself. The game data loads and the story view is (mostly!) rendering properly; scrolling up and down will jump between sections of the story which have been unlocked. Next goal is to start porting over puzzle code.
Canalys estimated in 2025 that Windows 11 will send 240 million working computers to e-waste. Microsoft seem hell-bent on breaking that record for Windows 12
BREAKING: We've freed Cookie.
Following an investigation by VGHF, Ukie and Web Capio have suspended DMCA takedowns for Cookie's Bustle on behalf of Graceware, SL.
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Reverse engineering Fool's Errand! We got the menus working, now all that's left are the 60-odd puzzles.
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Fixing ScummVM! Poking a stick at The Journeyman Project! Warmup: the horrors of the human body
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I had success using RPCEmu - there's a site offering an easy-start bundle with RISC OS 3.71 which saved a lot of time
Hah I also have strong memories of this. Bums me out on how much of the Acorn Archimedes software catalogue isn't preserved, including most of the Sherston Software games. (Although against the odds all four ArcVenture games are available!)
Reverse engineering Fool's Errand! Burrowing through reams of puzzle load code!
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This was always a risk for uploading ABBEY.DLL (MMF extension that plays the Beatles' Abbey Road in full at varying pitches and volumes)
Link doesn't seem to be available?
ScummVM fixing stream! Testing something called Better Dead Ratification, I think it has a Satan in it!
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Another lazy Fool's Errand reverse engineering stream. Intro is working, now to simply draw the rest of the owl
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Macromedia Director fixing stream! Apparently last year I found a game that is a multimedia world based on Salvador Dali's most famous paintings, so let's see if that boots
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Doing some more work on reversing Fool's Errand, a Macintosh game from 1987, so that it can be playable on modern systems.
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Fool's Errand progress report: we have text! Didn't take much to make it pixel-compatible with real QuickDraw. There's still a bug somewhere treating UTF-8 as MacRoman (copyright message on the title screen), and we're missing one overlay of the high priestess which uses a weird PICT render mode
So far there's no sign of an organizing committee, sponsors or anyone concrete putting their name to this. It's most likely a troll and I don't know why people are wasting energy on it.
Took a bit of extra setup, but we're finally ready to start. I paid for this big flatbed scanner before realising I would have to write a Linux driver for it. Why not take bets on how long before I ruin it?
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Fool's Errand progress report: most of the introduction works, all it took was fixing off-screen blitting and adding more of the QuickDraw shape drawing and blend modes. Next fun job is to wire up the fonts
Late start due to a bad upgrade! Tonight we continue porting Fool's Errand from Macintosh ZBasic to C++! Stuff is starting to appear on the screen (poorly)!
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Feel like a man throwing a homemade IED into a large crowd at an invasion day rally should be bigger news
