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Title: Bits and pieces of SCUMM being revealed...
Post by: lskovlun on March 24, 2016, 07:08:55 AM
Aric Wilmunder is getting ready to publish some of the old SCUMM documentation on his site at http://wilmunder.com/Arics_World/Games.html
Cue the inevitable comparisons  8) There is even talk of code.
Title: Re: Bits and pieces of SCUMM being revealed...
Post by: Kawa on March 24, 2016, 09:38:48 AM
What a nice coincidence of timing; I made this (http://i.imgur.com/XbuV68o.png) just yesterday.

Jokes aside, I'm looking forward to this.
Title: Re: Bits and pieces of SCUMM being revealed...
Post by: OmerMor on March 24, 2016, 10:17:02 AM
I think I might have something to do with it...

11 days ago I mailed him about SCUMM source code and documentation.
He replied that he has preserved everything, and is considering publishing it.

The next day he starts publishing his docs and teasing about GitHub...  ;D
Title: Re: Bits and pieces of SCUMM being revealed...
Post by: Kawa on March 24, 2016, 10:33:02 AM
*shakes fist in the air*

Moooorrrr!!
Title: Re: Bits and pieces of SCUMM being revealed...
Post by: MusicallyInspired on March 24, 2016, 11:00:02 AM
Where would we be without you, Omer? :)
Title: Re: Bits and pieces of SCUMM being revealed...
Post by: Kawa on March 24, 2016, 04:59:53 PM
...and now I'm wondering about the feasibility of a SCUMM-style nine-verb UI in SCI.
Title: Re: Bits and pieces of SCUMM being revealed...
Post by: lskovlun on March 24, 2016, 10:56:30 PM
Quote from: Kawa on March 24, 2016, 04:59:53 PM
...and now I'm wondering about the feasibility of a SCUMM-style nine-verb UI in SCI.
I think it's easier to do SCUMM-style things in SCI than the other way around - but the way things are going, we'll see.  ;D
Title: Re: Bits and pieces of SCUMM being revealed...
Post by: Kawa on March 26, 2016, 06:26:32 AM
*reads SCUMM Tutorial 0.1.pdf*

Brief? Isn't that the text editor Sierra used?
Title: Re: Bits and pieces of SCUMM being revealed...
Post by: lskovlun on March 26, 2016, 10:53:08 AM
It is, but given the popularity of the product, it is not surprising. On the other hand, Aric Wilmunder has said they used Sun workstations for a while in the beginning. I think one interview even mentioned emacs.  :) - but apparently they'd switched away from them by 1991.
Title: Re: Bits and pieces of SCUMM being revealed...
Post by: Kawa on March 27, 2016, 05:06:11 PM
Manual's out, go crazy.
Title: Re: Bits and pieces of SCUMM being revealed...
Post by: lance.ewing on March 30, 2016, 01:16:08 PM
I feel the urge to revisit my old PCV1/C64 format MM lflview app, just so I can add some script decoding to the end of it:

https://sites.google.com/site/lflview/home

I think a few script snippets have been floating around for a while, e.g. links here:

https://sites.google.com/site/lflview/links

But these newly released docs take it to a whole new level.
Title: Re: Bits and pieces of SCUMM being revealed...
Post by: OmerMor on April 04, 2016, 12:31:22 PM
New documents today...  :)
Title: Re: Bits and pieces of SCUMM being revealed...
Post by: Kawa on April 04, 2016, 12:52:48 PM
Oh boy oh boy oh boy.

Oooh, the Star Trek project :D
Title: Re: Bits and pieces of SCUMM being revealed...
Post by: MusicallyInspired on April 04, 2016, 02:56:19 PM
Star Trek?? I need to see this.
Title: Re: Bits and pieces of SCUMM being revealed...
Post by: OmerMor on April 05, 2016, 08:11:02 AM
Today he fixed the link to the Secret Project document.
Title: Re: Bits and pieces of SCUMM being revealed...
Post by: OmerMor on July 02, 2016, 03:38:12 PM
Got news from Aric:
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I was away the past few weeks and when I got up this morning I hit the scanner and got more documents ready. I?ll be compressing the PDF files and try to get these posted later today.
:D :D :D
Title: Re: Bits and pieces of SCUMM being revealed...
Post by: Kawa on July 02, 2016, 03:41:19 PM
Yaaaay!
Title: Re: Bits and pieces of SCUMM being revealed...
Post by: Kawa on July 04, 2016, 07:45:54 AM
And the new stuff's out.