Difference between revisions of "Queen"

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Queen
Engine developer	twogood, cyx, joostp
Companies that used it	Interactive Binary Illusions
Games that use it	Flight of the Amazon Queen
Date added to ScummVM	2003-09-28
First release containing it	0.6.0

The Queen Engine is used to play Interactive Binary Illusions' Flight of the Amazon Queen.

The engine (originally called JASPAR) currently supports all known DOS and Amiga versions (full game in several languages and demos).

There are currently no known bugs regarding FOTAQ.

JAS Version String

The JAS version string is a 5 bytes sequence present in the queen.jas datafile. Its primary use within ScummVM is to perform correct detection of the game. The first byte indicates the platform of the game :

Byte	Platform
'C'	PC CD-Rom
'P'	PC Floppy
'a'	Amiga

The second byte indicates the language of the game :

Byte	Language	Version Type
'E'	English	Official / Retail
'F'	French	Official / Retail
'G'	German	Official / Retail
'H'	Hebrew	Official / Retail
'I'	Italian	Official / Retail
'S'	Spanish	Official / Retail
'g'	Greek	Fan translation in progress
'R'	Russian	Fan translation in progress

The three remaining bytes contains a version number.

Fanmade Translations

Notes

If you intend to translate FOTAQ, here are some notes to help ScummVM supporting it :

Release a rebuilt datafile (ie. don't rely on queen.tbl to be modified for your version, this extra datafile only references retail versions of the game)
Update the second byte of the "JAS version string" in queen.jas, this allows ScummVM to perform correct language detection and select the appropriate charset data. Currently assigned bytes are listed in the table above.
If you must define new charset data, submit it to the patch tracker (ScummVM already has support for hebrew, russian and european fonts)

Tools

compress_queen allows to remove the queen.tbl dependancy from the original queen.1 datafile.
Vag from the GreekRoms team announced on the ScummVM forums that he'd programmed several tools to help in the translation process:

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+{{EngineDescription|
+        name=Queen|
+        developer=[[User:twogood|twogood]], [[User:cyx|cyx]], [[User:joostP|joostp]]|
+        companies=[[Interactive Binary Illusions]]|
+        usedBy=[[Flight of the Amazon Queen]]|
+        dateAdded=September 28, 2003|
+        release=0.6.0|
+        status=Complete|
+}}
 The '''Queen''' Engine is used to play Interactive Binary Illusions' [[Flight of the Amazon Queen]].
-The engine currently supports all DOS versions (full game in several languages and demos), support for the Amiga port of FOTAQ is not included at this time.
+The engine (originally called JASPAR) currently supports all known DOS and Amiga versions (full game in several languages and demos).
 There are currently no known bugs regarding FOTAQ.
+== JAS Version String ==
+The JAS version string is a 5 bytes sequence present in the '''queen.jas''' datafile. Its primary use within ScummVM is to perform correct detection of the game. The first byte indicates the platform of the game :
+{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
+!Byte !!Platform
+|-
+|'C'  ||PC CD-Rom
+|-
+|'P'  ||PC Floppy
+|-
+|'a'  ||Amiga
+|-
+|}
+The second byte indicates the language of the game :
+{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
+!Byte !!Language  !!Version Type
+|-
+|'E'  ||English ||Official / Retail
+|-
+|'F'  ||French  ||Official / Retail
+|-
+|'G'  ||German  ||Official / Retail
+|-
+|'H'  ||Hebrew  ||Official / Retail
+|-
+|'I'  ||Italian ||Official / Retail
+|-
+|'S'  ||Spanish ||Official / Retail
+|-
+|'g'  ||Greek   ||Fan translation in progress
+|-
+|'R'  ||Russian ||Fan translation in progress
+|-
+|}
+The three remaining bytes contains a version number.
+== Fanmade Translations ==
+=== Notes ===
+If you intend to translate FOTAQ, here are some notes to help ScummVM supporting it :
+* Release a rebuilt datafile (ie. don't rely on '''queen.tbl''' to be modified for your version, this extra datafile only references retail versions of the game)
+* Update the second byte of the "JAS version string" in '''queen.jas''', this allows ScummVM to perform correct language detection and select the appropriate charset data. Currently assigned bytes are listed in the table above.
+* If you must define new charset data, submit it to the patch tracker (ScummVM already has support for hebrew, russian and european fonts)
+=== Tools ===
+* '''compress_queen''' allows to remove the '''queen.tbl''' dependancy from the original '''queen.1''' datafile.
+* Vag from the GreekRoms team [https://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?p=22627&sid=ea8f0fbce26e5526acb02b548622d94d#p22627 announced on the ScummVM forums] that he'd programmed several tools to help in the translation process:
+**[http://www.greekroms.net/files/programs/Azura.zip Azura CUT editor]
+**[http://www.greekroms.net/files/programs/Lola.zip Lolo DOG editor]
+**[http://www.greekroms.net/files/programs/Sparky.zip Sparky data files extractor and inserter]
 [[Category:Engines]]
+__NOTOC__