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All right, things are nice and secure now! It's good to see you here again, Cloudee!

So the arcade is back. Too bad Flash is no longer supported on modern browsers.

I did have an idea about bringing things over to my new site, The Missing Floppies, but it looks like things are good here now. I'll still write things up there, and I even branched out to SCUMM games.

Good work updating to SMF 2.0.19. That will help ensure PHP 8 compatibility. Of course, SMF 2.1 was just released, but there's no rush to upgrade yet.

Yeah, I bet the mods installed made things a little harder. That's why I use XenForo, which was made by former vBulletin developers. It cost me $160, but with a lot of built-in features, I think it was worth it. The only third-party add-on I have installed is XenPorta ($40), which provides a portal for the forum. The only other add-on I have is the first-party XenForo Resource Manager ($65). I've uploaded my own template games with it.

Anyway, keep up the good work. You do your thing and I'll do mine.

Here's the SCUMM Tutorial. It's dated 1991, around the time of SCUMM v5 (i.e. Monkey Island 2)

And here's the SCUMM Manual. It's dated 1996, around the time of SCUMM v7 (i.e. Full Throttle, The Dig).

I replied to the previous topic, but I do have a status update regarding this site's security.

This site actually does have a valid certificate, and it's issued by the cPanel, Inc. Certification Authority. As far as everything under Community is concerned, it's secure as long as you use the HTTPS protocol. The rest of the site, however, does not display properly with HTTPS, and won't use the forum's style, just being plain white pages with black text. So yes, the site is not fully secure, but that seems to be because the rest of the site seems to use a custom or outdated CMS. Even the forum software hasn't been updated since 2017.

Quote from: EricOakford on January 10, 2022, 08:17:08 PM

It seems like the reason the views tend to be garbled when edited may be related to SCICompanion not properly modifying RESOURCE.MAP.

That's interesting. The more details you can get me and/or Phil, the better.

Specifically, if the resource files are modified, SCICompanion later mistakenly detects the map format as SCI 1.0, when it should be SCI 2. The package format and actual resources are still detected correctly, however.

In SCI Viewer, the resources themselves display fine, so it appears the view editor is not causing the problem; modifying the map file is.

It seems like the reason the views tend to be garbled when edited may be related to SCICompanion not properly modifying RESOURCE.MAP. That may explain why the views look okay in the view editor.

And adding in the control panel is tougher than in SCI16, since the GameControls and Slider classes appear to have been deprecated. SCI2's control panel will be based on that of GK1 and SCI2.1's on SQ6.

I managed to put in an older-style status line. Since the DrawStatus kernel call no longer exists in SCI32, this required making a special plane with text. QFG4 did a similar thing, but with views to represent current health, stamina, and mana.

Any idea what the LSL7 stamp will be? Not that it works with SC anyway.

Here's the initial DOS interpreter's build date and version:
Oct 18 1996 04:09:07   3.000.000The version stamp number is 18.
And here's for the interpreter included in the official patch:
Nov 08 1996 17:46:12   3.000.000HOWEVER... the stamp number in the patch's interpreter is -1! That means no version stamp check!

By the way, you can input the interpreter's name with any argument, and it will give the version number and stamp.