Fool's Errand progress report: intro is done, we're now porting the game itself. The game data loads and the story view is (mostly!) rendering properly; scrolling up and down will jump between sections of the story which have been unlocked. Next goal is to start porting over puzzle code.
Canalys estimated in 2025 that Windows 11 will send 240 million working computers to e-waste. Microsoft seem hell-bent on breaking that record for Windows 12
BREAKING: We've freed Cookie.
Following an investigation by VGHF, Ukie and Web Capio have suspended DMCA takedowns for Cookie's Bustle on behalf of Graceware, SL.
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Reverse engineering Fool's Errand! We got the menus working, now all that's left are the 60-odd puzzles.
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Fixing ScummVM! Poking a stick at The Journeyman Project! Warmup: the horrors of the human body
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I had success using RPCEmu - there's a site offering an easy-start bundle with RISC OS 3.71 which saved a lot of time
Hah I also have strong memories of this. Bums me out on how much of the Acorn Archimedes software catalogue isn't preserved, including most of the Sherston Software games. (Although against the odds all four ArcVenture games are available!)
Reverse engineering Fool's Errand! Burrowing through reams of puzzle load code!
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This was always a risk for uploading ABBEY.DLL (MMF extension that plays the Beatles' Abbey Road in full at varying pitches and volumes)
Link doesn't seem to be available?
ScummVM fixing stream! Testing something called Better Dead Ratification, I think it has a Satan in it!
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Another lazy Fool's Errand reverse engineering stream. Intro is working, now to simply draw the rest of the owl
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Macromedia Director fixing stream! Apparently last year I found a game that is a multimedia world based on Salvador Dali's most famous paintings, so let's see if that boots
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Doing some more work on reversing Fool's Errand, a Macintosh game from 1987, so that it can be playable on modern systems.
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Fool's Errand progress report: we have text! Didn't take much to make it pixel-compatible with real QuickDraw. There's still a bug somewhere treating UTF-8 as MacRoman (copyright message on the title screen), and we're missing one overlay of the high priestess which uses a weird PICT render mode
So far there's no sign of an organizing committee, sponsors or anyone concrete putting their name to this. It's most likely a troll and I don't know why people are wasting energy on it.
Took a bit of extra setup, but we're finally ready to start. I paid for this big flatbed scanner before realising I would have to write a Linux driver for it. Why not take bets on how long before I ruin it?
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Fool's Errand progress report: most of the introduction works, all it took was fixing off-screen blitting and adding more of the QuickDraw shape drawing and blend modes. Next fun job is to wire up the fonts
Late start due to a bad upgrade! Tonight we continue porting Fool's Errand from Macintosh ZBasic to C++! Stuff is starting to appear on the screen (poorly)!
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Feel like a man throwing a homemade IED into a large crowd at an invasion day rally should be bigger news
A monochrome screenshot from the prologue of The Fool's Errand. It is a dark and stormy night, with a mountain in the distance.
Resuming my attempt to port Fool's Errand from Macintosh to ScummVM. As of tonight we have enough of the Toolbox and ZBasic APIs done to blit an image to the screen!
The multimedia CD-ROM era was such a formative period for games, it irks me that it is absent from the common understanding of retro gaming because you can't buy the titles anymore
(I've been working on Macromedia Director support in ScummVM, works reasonably well now for most games up to 1996)
I bought a too-bright SteelSeries gamer mouse by mistake. It's too late to return it, so tonight I am trying to hack it so I don't need the 1.5GB Electron companion app to save my aching retinas.
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ScummVM fixing stream! Like it or not (mostly not) it's THE FUTURE, and so are today's Macromedia Director games.
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Since I don't stream anymore, I can't sneakily convince 100+ people to watch this 17 minute Australian advertisement every 6 months or so...
But I can still post it here.
New version of the Under a Killing Moon/Pandora Directive mouselook patcher released! Works on (hopefully) all versions and language editions of the game, and the patcher runs in the browser now!
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Streaming some DOS game jam entries tonight, on what feels like the hottest day of the year. Watch me disassociate from heatstroke!
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I fully support developers who spent some time down the DOS mines then decided to live a new life free of computers
It's incredibly muggy tonight, so I'm taking the evening off to play precocious mystery-solving teen simulator Eagle Eye Mysteries.
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#dos #msdos #dosember
