From: Travis H. <ki...@op...> - 2010-01-08 08:43:12
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On 8/01/2010 3:08 AM, Tristan Tarrant wrote: > A couple of fixes before we release: > - disable smooth scrolling > - main screen should be 320x200 so that it is the same as the standard game Agreed. > - easy packages for installation of exult + marzo's fixes + music and > sfx files (at least for windows). I don't think bundling Exult with the music packs would be a good idea, since we never actually got permission to redistribute those music/sound packs. I wonder if including Marzo's fixes would really be worth it though, since Marzo's fixes are more frequently updated, compared to Exult releases. > Other things which bother me (1.6 ? 2.2?): > - get rid of the xml config and go for a simple section-based property file > - add a folder chooser from within exult for initial setup Agreed, good ideas. On 8/01/2010 3:42 AM, Eric Bickle wrote: > Think we have time to sneak in a fix for all versions of Windows >= > 6.0? (Vista, 7, 2008, 2008 R2, etc). Right now Exult (and Pentagram) > are technically broken on those platforms when running non-elevated. They aren't really broken though, Windows Vista/7 (with UAC enabled) will automatically redirect to alternative folders. There are many people using Exult under Windows Vista/7 without any issues. > I can definitely help with this, but if I remember right there was a > block: > * Didn't want to drop support for Windows 95 > * Didn't want to use dynamic linking to "upgrade" to using the > correct APIs on newer OSes (XP+) (ie/ old behavior on old OSes and > dynamically link to the new APIs on newer OSes) I already suggested an alternative way (see ScummVM methods) to support all Windows versions, but you only seem interested in using the more recent APIs offered by later Windows versions. There is currently no good reason (any benefit) to drop Windows 95 or Windows 9x support, we would only upset people still using those operating systems. > * Still wanted to compile with "mingw" for Windows builds. AFAIK it's > not a supported compilation environment for Win32 (at least by > Windows itself)and as a result the libraries in it seem to be circa 1996 > or so - limiting properly supporting modern operating systems. Mingw may take more time to offer full support for APIs in the more recent Windows versions, due to legal reasons (documentation is always required). But Mingw currently offers no disadvantage for a Windows build of Exult. |