The first level will now load up when selecting 'start default party' and it is possible to walk around a bit. The Gui (playfield, compass, inventory) is still completely broken, but at least the level blocks and some of the decoration shapes are drawn correctly. Monsters will be drawn, but their anim frames are mixed up, so they will always face the wrong direction and cannot visibly attack.
- add support for the Sega Font and add text display methods at least for the sequence player
- finish sequence player (add all missing opcodes and other missing code portions)
- some improvement to the resource class
- some renaming and cleanup
This also (hopefully) involves most of the necessary graphics code. Text support is still missing. Otherwise, the intro and outro play mostly fine (except for some special opcodes).
Initial file handling, palette and graphics support. The opening credits get played satisfactory. Following up with the cinematics player will be much easier now...
The assumption till now was that PC-9801 games in 16 color mode will always use text mode for text display. However, EOB1 uses text mode for intro and ending sequence and graphics mode for ingame.
Add new font variant for this and also do some cleanup, since the text displayer code really needs it.
(The problem is that at least 3 different Japanese publishers did the Japanese ports for the various games and every one of them did his own hacks for his specific target.)
- add warning for wrong font file: The German version of EOB II has a font file with more characters than the English version or the EOB I fonts. Users now get a warning/instruction if they have the wrong file.
- add translation support for all AmigaDOS font related warnings/errors
First efforts to get this running. The intro is shown with severe palette glitches. The Main Menu does not show, thanks to the lack of font drawing.
- implement endian aware stream wrapper for amiga files
- implement sound file handling
- implement some Amiga palette handling
- etc
Reorganize all files in sub directories. The file placement isn't as intuitive as it might be for other engines, which is probably the reason why this hasn't been done before.
athrxx
Thanasis Antoniou
D G Turner