User:Buddha^

Buddha^
Name	Kari Salminen
Team Member since	2007-04-12
Working on	AGI engine
Personal webpage/BLOG	-
Email	kari dot salminen at gmail dot com

I am a Google Summer of Code 2007 participant working on ScummVM's AGI engine. (My GSoC 2007 application abstract)

The project diary is where I put more verbose stuff about my GSoC 2007 workings.

• My project diary for GSoC 2007

ToDo

AGI engine's TODO

• Fix priority screen showing (For debugging) in AGI256 and AGI256-2 mode
  • Pretty much done, only ego's priority showing still missing
• Write documentation for AGI256 and AGI256-2 hacks
• Disable CGA rendering for AGI256 and AGI256-2 games

Thinking about adding

• Create new functionality for loading 256 color palettes (Could be aptly named AGIPAL256)
  • And possibly hack it also into AGI256-2's AGI.EXE (Would this be useful?)

At the moment AGI256 and AGI256-2 games have a static 256 color palette, so I think this would be a nice addition. Thinking about a similar way as as AGIPAL, but this time using shake_screen command's values 110+ and using filenames like pal256.110 etc. Or another way would be to add a palette into the end of an AGI256 picture resource and setting that as the current palette when loading the picture resource.

Currently working on (Last updated on 2007-06-21)

Got AGI256 and AGI256-2 support done just now, haven't decided yet what to do next.

Things done during GSoC 2007

2007-05-29:

• Took screenshots for AGI games (Almost all of the officials + a couple of fanmades)
• Made thumbs for different AGI game series
  • Example: Larry's head for the Larry series, Sarien head for the Space Quest series

2007-06-06:

• Implemented classes for loading and parsing WinAGI's *.wag files
  • WagProperty class
    • Encapsulates a single property from a *.wag file (It usually has several in it).
  • WagFileParser class
    • Loads and parses a *.wag file into WagProperty objects.

2007-06-08:

• Finished the current implementation of fallback detection for the AGI engine.
  • This now uses WinAGI's *.wag file parsing as a part in its detection routine.

2007-06-21:

• Implemented AGI256 and AGI256-2 support into the AGI engine.

2007-06-25:

• Made a workaround for Gold Rush's intro skipping bug #1737343

2007-06-26:

• Fixed game saving & restoring with AGI256 and AGI256-2 games

2007-07-10:

• Implemented support for Amiga-style colored options (FR #657645)