Re: [freesci-develop] Glutton OS X sound support & wrapper for FreeSCI, was: Concerning C416: No sound on Mac OS X

[Matt]

> SQ4 and friends (SCI1 etc.) doesn't really work yet; no one has looked
> into this for quite a while.
That would explain it, I thought I saw the screenshot of SQ4 on the web 
page so I was assuming someone was using it for some testing (I also 
noticed just now your hint below).
Which games/demos are currently starting and being used for debugging?

> You could try xlib (there's X11 for OS X, after all). I never got it to
> run on my iBook (presumably, my installation is broken), but that's a
> different issue.
Not too difficult anymore, I actually got it installed without much 
trouble and it looks like Apple will be supporting this ongoing. 
Checking the webpage of Apple it looks like 10.3 will now have 
X11/Xwindows with the OS installation.
You can install some extensions and then easily run applications such 
as Open Office, Gimp and other desktop managers as KDE (I take pleasure 
some times to just quit the Finder and run KDE as Desktop manager to 
freak some Mac users out).

> > What other graphics engine that freesci
> > supports right now works really well with it next to SDL? Maybe we 
> > just
> > need to port that one.
> libggi and xlib are the only portable ones I can think of at the 
> moment.

>   "Wizard setup" meaning some interactive external program?
> I'm not sure if relocating game resources makes sense on all platforms.
> One could reasonably imagine a UNIX system with data resources being
> shared (/usr/share/games/sci/...) between different users, or an SCI1.1
> game with speech output from CD (and we don't really want to copy the
> RESOURCE.AUD or whatever it was called for these games unless the user
> really wants that...)
Yes, an interactive external program, could be up to the platform 
coders themselves so the UI would keep the closest to each of the 
platform.
It would write the initial settings to the configuration file. This way 
I would expect the minimal number questions of users.
Personally I would always want to copy the audio files, I have only 1 
DVD/CD drive and I like to keep it free, for sure on a laptop spinning 
a harddisk takes lesser battery power as spinning a CD rom.

> You can run either with the xlib driver (using X11), or with the 'null'
> driver-- you should enable debug messages to ensure that you see
> _something_ happening there, though.
I will try the xlib and see where I can come out too, what has the best 
Xlib support, Glutton or FreeSCI? I would be curious for its speed, 
somehow I expect slower as SDL. When I get it to run on my Mac I will 
let you know.

> Still SQ4? Sounds like the script isn't being run correctly; try using
> the undocumented '-r' parameter to specify the resource layout (I'm
> not sure how this works; Lars?).
>   It will still be broken, but not completely broken.
Thanks! Will try it later tonight!

Matt