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Ahoy there! My work is primarily focused on the SCUMM engine, with the objective of (trying to) rise its accuracy.

These are my past macrotasks:

SCUMM: reversed and rewrote the Digital iMUSE subsystem, responsible for audio playback in Full Throttle, The Dig and The Curse of Monkey Island;
SCUMM: revamped the audio subsystem of the SMUSH video playback engine to improve compatibility for Full Throttle and The Dig;
SCUMM: helped rewriting the subtitles and text rendering routines for version 7 and 8 of the engine for accuracy purposes;
SCUMM: revamped timer and screen effects routines to match the original DOS games;
SCUMM: provided sparse accuracy fixes and improvements regarding versions 4+ of the engine, particularily version 8 (The Curse of Monkey Island);
SCUMM: implemented the original GUI and save menus;
SCUMM: implemented proper Audio CD saving and restoring for Loom (VGA);

Here's all fun stuff I'm working on right now:

This is a list of all the tasks I'd like to tackle sooner rather than later, listed in no particular order (and with no guarantee of success...):

SCUMM: rewrite compress_scumm_bun and update the Digital iMUSE engine in order to restore support for compressed audio for The Dig and The Curse of Monkey Island;
SCUMM: update the Digital iMUSE engine to have proper support for high quality audio (44100Hz, 16-bit) to allow high quality fan-dubs and high quality music replacements;
SCUMM: refactor and publish already written tools which would allow users to extract, edit and replace the contents of .BUN files;
SCUMM: update the Full Throttle version of the Digital iMUSE engine to support a more recent version of the Creative Voice File (.VOC) audio format, so to restore support for the reMONSTERed fan patch;
SCUMM: write a lipsync generation tool for The Curse of Monkey Island to allow proper lipsync for fan-dubs.

In the future I'd like to:

GrimE: port the Digital iMUSE audio engine from SCUMM;
GrimE: get familiar with the engine, so to provide accuracy fixes;
GrimE: reverse and port the HMIFXLIB.DLL library, responsible for reverb and other DSP effects.
Mohawk: get familiar with the engine and provide accuracy fixes for Myst and Riven;

But for now I'll have to accept the fact that I simply don't have enough time... :-P

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 *[[SCUMM]]: revamped timer and screen effects routines to match the original DOS games;
 * [[SCUMM]]: provided sparse accuracy fixes and improvements regarding versions 4+ of the engine, particularily version 8 ([[The Curse of Monkey Island]]);
-*[[SCUMM]]: implemented the original GUI and save menus.
+*[[SCUMM]]: implemented the original GUI and save menus;
+*[[SCUMM]]: implemented proper Audio CD saving and restoring for [[Loom]] (VGA);
 ==Working on==
 Here's all fun stuff I'm working on right now:
-* Nothing right now, but check again later :-)
+* [[Humongous Entertainment/Games|SCUMM/HE]]: rewriting the audio system for [[Moonbase Commander]] and late HE games;
 ==Future TO-DOs==
 This is a list of all the tasks I'd like to tackle sooner rather than later, listed in no particular order (and with no guarantee of success...):
-* [[Humongous Entertainment/Games|SCUMM/HE]]: rewrite the audio system for [[Moonbase Commander]];
-* [[SCUMM]]: implement proper Audio CD saving and restoring for [[Loom]] (VGA);
 * [[SCUMM]]: rewrite [[ScummVM Tools|compress_scumm_bun]] and update the Digital iMUSE engine in order to restore support for compressed audio for [[The Dig]] and [[The Curse of Monkey Island]];
 *[[SCUMM]]: update the Digital iMUSE engine to have proper support for high quality audio (44100Hz, 16-bit) to allow high quality fan-dubs and high quality music replacements;