Difference between revisions of "Windows CE"

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#The games can be installed anywhere on your device, but let's first make a folder called '''''\Storage Card\Games\SCUMMVM\'''''' on the memory card, so that we may know where we've got our games

#Now, following [[Datafiles|this list]], copy over the required data files from your favorite games and store them in separate folders as instructed

#In the ScummVM launcher, choose ''''Add game...'''' and when the dialog asking to do an automatic search pops up, choose ''''Yes''''. In the next dialog, browse to your recently created '''''\Storage Card\Games\SCUMMVM\''''' folder and tap on ''''Choose''''. ScummVM will then automatically configure the games recursively and put them on the launcher list. You may want to edit the games and remove the version information - '''(VERSION/PLATFORM/LANGUAGE)''' - as it may clutter the list and cropping the games titles, therefore you can change the title entry completely. You may also have to rename some fan-made AGI games as they might not have been added to the compatibility list yet.

==== Compressing games ====

Since most of these games, especially the CD-talkies, will take several megabytes of space, it might be a good idea to compress them as much as possible. This can be achieved with a set of tools provided by the ScummVM team, each engine having its own [[User Manual/Appendix: Tools|compression tool]].

== How to use ScummVM ==

There's a couple of differences with ScummVM on Windows CE compared to the standard PC build. This section of the manual will describe the additional features in this port.

=== The menu ===

The biggest difference you'll notice is the menu on the bottom of the screen. This menu helps you with standard input that would normally require a keyboard, such as saving and loading or skipping a cutscene.

[[Image:pocketscummmenu.png|center|frame|Figure 1: ''The Pocket Scumm menu'']]

::Opens up the in-game menu; where you can e.g. save/load, configure ScummVM or quit the application. When playing e.g. AGI games or other games with an original menu preserved, this icon will open up the game's standard menu and not ScummVM's built-in. This button won't work with games such as Simon The Sorcerer.

::Skips in-game cutscenes and the current character's spoken line.

::Mutes and unmutes the game sound, convenient in public places when you don't want to attract attention.

;5. Orientation monkey

::The orientation monkey is for use with rectangular QVGA/VGA devices. Tap him to make the screen rotate into three different [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_orientation page orientation] modes - portrait, landscape and reverse landscape.

'''''If you want to hide the menu, either double-tap on top of the screen or configure a button using the mapping utility, and use it.'''''

:Bring up the '''Key Mapping''' dialog once you launch a game either by clicking the key icon in the toolbar (Pocket PC) or by pressing the associated key (Smartphones) and bind actions to device keys of your choice.

 

:Check out the port's readme (that is, the README-WinCE.txt file).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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:I remember that Vasyl did the first port, which was just working with no sound and no specific CE features (i.e. straight port from the CVS). Then Andys from [http://www.pocketmatrix.com PocketMatrix] forums started working on the sound, and had some success with that, but without getting officially involved in the ScummVM project.

:If I remember well I got involved after sending some patches for Loom CD, and doing the "first refactoring" of the port which was basically C only at that time, I fixed some Pocket PC specific bugs, and started working on a specific UI for Pocket PC, the virtual keyboard and icons. Then a guy called Bjorn Eike Schwarz (Shapeshifter on PocketMatrix) improved the UI, virtual keyboard and icons. He passed away unfortunately :( So he deserves extra credits in the Wiki I think - see http://www.pocketmatrix.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=20410

:So that was early 2002 - during the next months I improved the compatibility on the different ports on Windows CE and my holy grail at that time was to have a single binary working with all screen resolutions, as well as a very easy code base to port on multiple other Pocket PC architectures (at that time MIPS and SH3 were still on the market), and a clean framework to port SDL based games on Windows Mobile.

:The Pocketmatrix forum community was quite useful at that time, with a lot of people always available to test the new releases (replaying full games on each release), and SirDave's excellent documentation project.

:I'd say my big achievement came with the 0.5.1 release in 2003 and the special scalers to work on the first Windows Mobile Smartphone (SPV E100). It was one of the early homebrew to work on the SPV as well (since I spent some time freeing the platform for developers also), and most probably the first single Windows CE executable to work on a Pocket PC and on a Smartphone :)

:After that and other funny compatibility updates (due to the ever changing Microsoft platform and mostly "updates" to the graphics drivers), I decided to refactor everything since ScummVM was turning more and more into a C++ project and I felt a little bit left behind with my messy C hacks :)

:This happened in 2004 but I don't remember for which release it went public. The refactoring itself was fun but of course it broke many things and the result was significantly slower and less compatible than 0.5.1, which was a little bit disappointing.

:So I spent the next months trying to improve that, but eventually got super busy on other things and rather bored of that never ending bug fixing and attemtps to understand the next creative way Microsoft found to break the display drivers in the next devices (the giant mess that was Windows 2003 SE and its virtual VGA resolution along with the never kept promise of a standard DirectDraw layer coming to the mobile platform pretty much convinced me to stop developing games for this platform).

:And that's where you came to save the day, I guess :)

:To conclude I'd say that all these years were pretty much fun, I spent a lot of time on these games as a child and feel happy to have contributed  to such a great project than ScummVM is today.

:I think this project makes a lost gaming genre still appealing for many people, and really preserves the history of computer gaming. Bringing my small contribution to this task and helping people carry their new favorite games with them was a great experience ... I think the best part of it were the posts or e-mails of people telling me that they won't get bored anymore on the train or on meetings :)<font size=10 face=Georgia color=gray><b>,,</b></font>