AndywinXp

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

Worked on

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);
SCUMM: updated 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/HE: rewrote the audio system for all HE games;

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

SWORD1: finishing up the engine:
- Fix timing routines overall, so that timers are accurate for speedrunners;
- Implement palette fading;
- Implement SFX fading;
- Implement automatic lower music volume when speech is playing;
- Take another look at the audio engine just in case something is missing;
- Fix font position on some parts of the main menu;
- Fix text cursor blink timing when writing a savegame name (too slow right now);
- Implement Save and Restore screen bars movement when scrolling;
- Implement the "Speed" section in the main menu;
- Play intro cutscene when selecting Restart from the main menu;
- Possibly rewrite the whole main menu from source code?
- Implement pause button!
SCUMM: rewriting 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: updating 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;

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: refactor and publish already written tools which would allow users to extract, edit and replace the contents of .BUN files;
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