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General
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* Add plugin system (both dynamic & static plugin support)
[if you want to work on it, ask Fingolfin about this, he already has done
some planning. Also make sure that your system support 'static' plugins, too]
* Revise the way "quit" is handled. Maybe add a global variable "g_quit" which
we set when the application should be quit (e.g. when an EVENT_QUIT is
received). This is useful if multiple levels of event loops have to be ended
* Fix the Map<> template, make it more robust; maybe use a red-black tree?
* Allow for return-to-launcher instead of a normal "quit" ?
* Make some generic "EventLoop" API/class which all backends and the GUI
use. Initially this would just call the backend poll_event() etc. methods.
But eventually the EventLoop object(s) could be made by the backend.
This may allow for more efficient CPU usage etc.
The current event handling model essentially is polling: the engines run
some kind of main loop, which, besides many other things, also polls and
dispatches events. The idea is to turn this around: the event loop
frequently gives the engine time to do these "other things".
* Remove various parts from GameSettings struct: "id", "version", "detectname".
Those are only needed internally by the plugins, and hence shouldn't be
exported. On the long run, "midi" and "features" might be removed, too.
* Make the debug class (i.e. the one that handles tab completion, command
registration, etc.) more easily available to the various game engines. At
the moment, the BS2 engine contains a stripped down copy of the SCUMM
debugger, which is a pretty lousy form of code reuse.
GUI
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* Implement "tabs" for multi-pane prefs dialog
-> could also be used by the Scumm help dialog in scumm/help.cpp
* LAUNCHER: fix global options dialog to be properly persistent
* LAUNCHER: add more options to global options dialog
* LAUNCHER: add more options to game target options dialog
* Global & game target options dialogs probably could share some "panes"
-> write code allowing this
-> also, 'in game' option dialogs (for volume/scaler/etc. settings)
could potentially reuse these, too
Audio
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* Get the high quality resample code to work
[Fingolfin has started work on this]
* Add a command line/config file option for the output sample rate (to allow
for output sample rates other than 22050 Hz, e.g. 44100). Code should do
sanity checking (e.g. restrict to rates between 8000 - 65535 Hz)
Config
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* Preserve comments in config file somehow
* Add a 'notification' system. E.g. the SoundMixer could request to be notified
whenever the value of the "volume" config option changes. In other words,
instead of a "pull" approach (where each subsystem has to check whether any
config option relevant to it has been changed) we use a "push" approach.
Of course the current approach is "push", too: whenever e.g. the volume
setting is changed, the code doing so has to updated the SoundMixer etc.
That's cumbersome, and error prone. Would be much nicer if updating the
volume config value automatically notifies the SoundMixer, iMuse etc.
* Change backends to directly access the config manager
SCUMM
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* Fix C64 costume code
* Make it possible to restart games properly
* Add support for handling Kanji in FM Towns games (foreground is rendered on a
second plane at 640x480), text uses Shift_JIS encoding
* Figure out how to extract resources from Apple II and Commodore 64 versions
* Document and fix AKOS differences in Humongous Entertainment games
* Support various newer Humongous Entertainment games
* Implement file related opcode stubs needed for Humongous games
* Add support for graphics codecs used in 3DO versions of Humongous games
* Proper handling of .tlk files for Humongous games
* Merge iMUSE and iMUSE Digital
* Implement the needed INSANE bits for Full Throttle action sequences
* iMUSE Digital enhancements/fixes for Full Throttle and COMI
* Try to remove all use of MAD/Ogg code from scumm/sound.cpp:
Ideally, only code in sound/ should access these libs. This will
become important for loadable module support
* Add support for TFMX music format in Amiga version of Monkey Island 1
Check http://darkstar.tabu.uni-bonn.de/~neo/audio.html for music format details
* Add support for sound effects format found in Sega CD version of Monkey Island
* Rename scummvm.cpp to scumm.cpp for consistency. [Fingolfin is working on
this, please don't do anything about this before talking to him].
1) Try to get scummvm.cpp fixed for ViewCVS [in progress!]
2a) If 1) succeeded, file SF.net CVS file rename request
2b) If 2) failed, do brute force file rename (cp && cvs add && cvs rm)
3) Adjust Makefile and project files to use the new name
* Possible implement a new resource manager, which then also could be shared
by ScummEX. [Jamieson has some ideas about this and might work on it|
* Make opening of resource files not depend on target names for the games with
resource files like targetname.xxx. This is needed for bundled mac games.
* Support all Mac games without needing rescumm. These games being: dott,
samnmax, dig & ft. See above point.
Broken Sword 2
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* Replace all uses of std C file I/O (fopen, fread, fwrite, fclose) by
the File class (excluding that in SWORD2_DEBUG). This is probably mostly
done. I only find a few such calls in resMan::CacheNewCluster(), and that
one needs to be rewritten anyway.
* Enforce ScummVM code formatting guidelines.
* Encapsulate the code into sensible objects.
* Enable the CD swapping code.
* Support cutscenes in some kind of open video format.
SIMON
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* Add support for Protracker music format used in Amiga versions
* Add support for decoding main graphics correctly in Amiga versions
Descumm
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* Turn it into a library, to be used by a command line frontend (like now),
ScummVM debugger, and ScummEX. Basically, the API could consist of a single
function, which takes a pointer to a memory buffer, its length, the Scumm
version and optionally a game id. Also, it would get a pointer to a print
function (in the case of the CLI tool, print to stdout; for ScummVM, print
to our GUI console; for ScummEX, append to some window/widget)
* Rewrite code to use 2 passes; first pass builds an intermediate graph, the
second pass then tries to detect loops, break/continue statements etc.
Backends
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* Several of the backend factory functions take config parameters. It should
be possible to get rid of those once the config system rewrite (see above)
has been done. In that case, the backends simply can query the config
manager for these parameters (or any others they might like :-).
* Add API to query backend for a list of available music engines
Useful for Options dialog
* Add API to query backend for a list of available scalers/screenmodes
(that is, a list of user presentable names, and corresponding PROP_SET_GFX_MODE
values). This is useful for the options dialog
* Add PROP_GET_GFX_MODE (mirroring PROP_SET_GFX_MODE)
* Consider replacing the PROP_TOGGLE_* properties with GET/SET ones ->
this allows more control over these properties (like, it allows the GUI to
display checkboxes for these in the options dialog)
SDL backend
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* Fix the "auto dirty rect" computing code - in particular, use a proper checksum
algorithm, this should solve many of the problems with some luck
* OpenGL code: either fix it (see open bug tracker items and various hacks in the code),
or remove it. Does anybody really need this???
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