The big table with it's 330 entries grew far too messy and
unwieldy, so I'm splitting it into several files.
One file for each game, with some exceptions:
- The Playtoons series
- The ADI / Addy 2 series
- The ADI / Addy 4 series
- The Adibou / Addy Junior series
The DOS, Amiga and Atari version of Little Red come with a small
screen, accessible through the main menu, that lets children read and
listen to animal names in 5 languages: French, German, English,
Spanish and Italian.
Unfortunately, the German names are partially wrong. This is
especially tragic because this is a game for small children and
they're supposed to learn something here. So I deem fixing this a
very good idea.
Just to be sure, someone should probably look over the French,
Spanish and Italian words too.
While the other parts in the series are mostly hard-coded,
they are small, simple and monotone enough that I might just
think about implementing them some day...
This makes the bees level playable, removing the "lock-up".
Collision detection between Little Red and the bees and butterflies
doesn't work yet though, so they're just flying through her.
Nevertheless, the game seems to be completable now.
This fixes the crash when selecting an animal in the "Languages"
screen.
Interestingly, the German names of the animals are partially
wrong... And for "Das Schmetterling" (sic!), even the recorded
speech sample is wrong.
This is a complete rewrite of the AdLib players for ADL and MDY/TBR
files in the Gob engine.
Major changes
1) The AdLib base class is now completely separated from all file
format code and can theoretically be used by any OPL2-based
format (within reason)
2) The new code is far better documented and more readable
3) The MDY player now actually works. The MDY/TBR format is
in reality the MUS/SND format created by AdLib as a simpler
alternative to the ROL format
4) Since the MAME emulator is quite buggy and leads to noticable
wrong percussion in the Gobliins 2 title music, the new AdLib
player will try to create a DOSBox OPL. If it's not compiled in,
or if the user configured opl_driver to "mame", it will print
out appropriate warnings.
Geisha's Penetration minigame should be complete now.
This also means that Geisha is now basically complete.
The only thing missing is the MDYPlayer, but since the
music is only played once during the title screen, and it
has a PCM-based fallback (which is currently played), this
is low priority.
This is a workaround for how Lost in Time behaves in combination
with changes I made to the DataIO code for running Urban Runner
on low-memory devices.
Urban Runner's intro are far to big to have them copied into
memory for these devices, so I made the DataIO code return a
SafeSeekableSubReadStream into the opened archive stream instead.
Unfortunately, Lost in Time might not close a video file when it
closes the data file which it was originally in, especially when
loading a saved game. Since the video player needs to be able to
gaplessly continue a video and there does not, by itself, close
the video if not requested by the scripts, this leads to reading
out of an already closed stream in certain cases.
So, to worka round this issues, the video player tries to reopen
each currently opened video after a data archive was closed, to
make sure that that video is still available. If not, the video
is closed.
The German strings have been changed from the original, to fix the
horribly broken German.
Someone should probably check the Italian and Spanish strings too.
Sven Hesse
Eugene Sandulenko