Hello folks and welcome to my blog. My name is Marwan Hilmi. I am a 21 year old Computer Engineering student at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. I’ll be using this site to keep track of progress as my Google Summer of Code project for ScummVM gets underway.
Google Summer of Code aims to encourage students to become involved in open-source software development. I’ve chosen to apply my knowledge of C++ and my love of games to aiding in the development of ScummVM. As a collection of virtual machines, ScummVM allows users to play a variety of classic games on several platforms. As I grew up playing many of the LucasArts classics that ScummVM was built to support, I was immediately drawn to this project. Specifically, my task involves creating an interpreter for two audio formats commonly used in AMIGA games. This interpreter will read TFMX files from “The Secret of Monkey of Island” and MaxTrax files from “The Legend of Kyrandia: Book 1″. This interpreter will be built on top of software emulated PAULA hardware (the native AMIGA audio chip). I’m glad to have been accepted as one of six students and look forward to getting started.
For more information, check out the links below. Feel free to stop by and make comments anytime! Stay tuned because many updates and changes will be coming. You can also reach me at the contact information given below.
EMAIL: mhilmi@gmail.com
MSN: marwanhilmi@hotmail.com
IRC: mhilmi on Freenode
LINK: ScummVM homepage.
LINK: GSOC 2008 homepage.
LINK: GSOC ScummVM profile.
LINK: My proposal.