AndywinXp

AndywinXp/Bosca
Name	Andrea Boscarino
Team Member since	2021-11-23
Working on	SCUMM
Personal webpage/BLOG	-
Email	-

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.

Working on

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? (Our menu code is customly written and only takes inspiration and some resource loading code from the original)
  • Implement pause button!
• SCUMM/HE: fixing the WIZ graphic format handling.

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...):

• 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 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: 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.

Eventually wants to work on

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.

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