{"id":76,"date":"2012-09-06T07:27:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T07:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/somaen\/?p=76"},"modified":"2022-05-26T07:28:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T07:28:04","slug":"aftermath-of-gsoc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/somaen\/2012\/09\/06\/aftermath-of-gsoc\/","title":{"rendered":"Aftermath of GSoC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so GSoC is over, I passed and a few things has happened since then:<\/p>\n<p>Some games had issues with interlaced PNGs and TGAs, this should be less of an issue, as I posted pull-requests for using libpng (instead of the internal variation that was in use before), as well as a TGA-loader, both of which have been accepted and merged now. (This means that <em>Five Magical Amulets<\/em> and <em>Five Lethal Demons<\/em> now atleast start).<\/p>\n<p>The Wintermute-engine was opened as a <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/scummvm\/scummvm\/pull\/267\">pull-request<\/a>, which after some adjustment and discussion, ended up getting merged into the master-branch for ScummVM. This means that the Wintermute-engine is available in the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scummvm.org\/downloads\/#daily\">daily builds<\/a>, although it is still marked as unstable, and no specific games are officially supported at this point. (BUT, from personal experience atleast <em>Dirty Split<\/em> and <em>Chivalry is not Dead\u00a0<\/em>should be completable). The development of the engine will continue there instead of in my own fork.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which, I am now joining the ScummVM-team as a developer, to continue working on the Wintermute-engine (and hopefully getting a few games release-worthy). The road ahead for Wintermute isn&#8217;t short, as there are plenty of bugs left to squash, and plenty of performance left to improve upon, so I guess I&#8217;ll have my hands full for a while longer.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you want to try out the results of this summer&#8217;s work, go ahead and grab a daily build if you are on Windows, or build your own if you are on OS X or Linux.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and while I won&#8217;t be accepting bug-reports for specific games for a while yet, feel free to send me detection-entries for the multitude of games I haven&#8217;t gotten around to adding yet.<\/p>\n<p>Einar Johan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so GSoC is over, I passed and a few things has happened since then: Some games had issues with interlaced PNGs and TGAs, this should be less of an issue, as I posted pull-requests for using libpng (instead of the internal variation that was in use before), as well as a TGA-loader, both of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/somaen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/somaen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/somaen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/somaen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/somaen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/somaen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/somaen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/somaen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/somaen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/somaen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}