{"id":12,"date":"2013-06-18T00:25:50","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T00:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/uruk\/?p=12"},"modified":"2022-05-22T13:36:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T13:36:12","slug":"beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/uruk\/2013\/06\/18\/beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Google Summer of Code officially started on yesterday, I started the actual coding as well. The amount of code is still frightening a bit, but with the help of my mentor and enough tenacity, I am sure I will succeed.<\/p>\n<div>Looking through the automatically converted sources (made with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.garret.ru\/pascal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PtoC<\/a>)\u00a0and adding the standard header to the files (with the awesome help of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/licensemanager.codeplex.com\/\">License Header Manager for Visual Studio<\/a>)\u00a0and a namespace for my engine took up most of my Monday. Luckily, I am a bit more familiar with Git by now, so using it didn&#8217;t cause me any troubles.<\/div>\n<div>My plan is now to make the converted sources more readable using\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/astyle.sourceforge.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Artistic Style<\/a>, then add an empty engine to my work and hook it into ScummVM. You can read more about the procedure\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.scummvm.org\/index.php\/HOWTO-Engines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. (And I hope soon here, in my blog as well when I am finished with it.)<\/div>\n<div>There is still the problem of the missing ROOMNUMS.INC, but I think we&#8217;ll be able to get through it, thanks to this\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/tthurman\/avalot\/wiki\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">great wiki<\/a>\u00a0the original author made himself to help the porters. (Especially with the help of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/tthurman\/avalot\/wiki\/Rooms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this\u00a0page<\/a>.)<\/div>\n<div>By the way, if you are interested in my work and would like to follow it a little closer, you can find\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/urukgit\/scummvm\/commits\/avalanche\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my repository on GitHub<\/a>, where I &#8220;commit early, commit often.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Google Summer of Code officially started on yesterday, I started the actual coding as well. The amount of code is still frightening a bit, but with the help of my mentor and enough tenacity, I am sure I will succeed. Looking through the automatically converted sources (made with\u00a0PtoC)\u00a0and adding the standard header to the [&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-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/uruk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/uruk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/uruk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/uruk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/uruk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/uruk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/uruk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/uruk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/uruk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/uruk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}