In the English version, Syd's biography says that he's "tring" to start
his own new-wave band. Other versions I've seen (in person or on YouTube)
have either fixed the typo, or (in the case of the NES version)
completely rewritten the text. Fix this, and mark it as an enhancement.
This does not improve anything about these modes for v2 and v3, except:
- brighter CGA colors
- v2 will also get the more accurate Hercules mouse cursor
I will do improve v2/v3 as separate tasks. v3 seems to be mostly fine, anyway, except for the actors (we dither them just like the backgrounds, but that looks different in DOSBox).
According to the manual, you can execute commands by clicking on the
sentence line. But this doesn't work with the v1 or v2 DOS versions,
even though it works with the C64 demo. This is because the verb script
doesn't for this, so we have to do that ourselves. This is loosely based
on how Zak McKracken does it.
The lab cutscene where Purple Tentacle is bullying Sandy would hang
when Dr Fred is done talking, in the official French version.
This appears to be related to this VAR_CHARCOUNT check in script no. 155:
[0085] (14) print(9,"{{Dr Fred's reaction line, shorter in French}}");
[00DA] (80) breakHere();
[00DB] (44) unless (VAR_CHARCOUNT > 90) goto 00DA;
Usually, French sentences are a bit longer than English sentences, but
in this case, it's shorter, but yet the script didn't adjust the 90
value, so it would indefinitely loop, causing the scene to hang (until
the player presses the Esc key) and Sandy's reaction to be lost.
So we just pad this string with extra spaces if its length looks too
short for the default VAR_CHARCOUNT check. This should also remain
harmless if the string *is* long enough, or if a translation did fix
the VAR_CHARCOUNT check.
Still, we only restrict this workaround to the French version for now,
since we're not aware of a similar problem with other translations.
curRect.left is assigned in the script, and it is not modified. right is
assigned with the screen width - original left.
This results in bad highlighting of the verbs all over the line width,
instead of being limited to the actual string.
Due to that, sometimes the selection range of the up/down arrows overlaps
with some of the verbs, and then these verbs cannot be selected.
Solve by storing the original left value, and using it as initial x
position for the string (the actual right-to-left manipulation is done in
drawString()), and modify the value of curRect.left to match the string
that was actually drawn.
This bug is similar to the one that was fixed in 58e921eb87, but the
solution that was done there for v7 and v8 cannot work here, because the
string logic is much more complicated.
In contrast to the comment in o_beginOverride() VAR(VAR_OVERRIDE) is not set in the disassembly. In addition the cutscene stack-pointer is always 0 as this feature is not used in v0. This makes o_beginOverride() work the same way o2_beginOverride() and so it is not needed anymore.
Note that fetchScriptWord() was changed to ScummEngine::fetchScriptWord() in o2_beginOverride() as ScummEngine_v0::fetchScriptWord() only fetches a byte.
As we need two bytes here we have to use ScummEngine::fetchScriptWord().
Some object functions allow actor IDs and object IDs as parameters. They are easily distinguishable in engines > 0 as actor IDs are < _numActors and object IDs are bigger. In v0 this is not the case as there are objects with IDs like 3 and 5 (e.g. the hamster). So object ID handling was unified for v0 and the other engines by introducing objIsActor(), objToActor() and ActorToObj().
- MM C64 uses command stack (SentenceTab, doSentence()) now
- _cmdObject... added for current SentenceTab. The _active... variables are only used to build a sentence in the inventory but never by a script.
-> many routines are not needed anymore and are removed
- removed complicated and unnecessary _v0ObjectIndex, _v0ObjectInInventory, _v0ObjectFlag vars
- started to merge object id and type into one object value (type<<8|id)
- verb preposition ids do not dependent on language -> remove from VerbSettings
Note:
- objects with type=0 are foreground objects. They have a state, an owner and a bg overlay image.
- objects with type=1 are bg objects. They do not have a state or owner and are already contained in the bg image. The do not have an entry in objectState/OwnerTable
Note: the transition is not completed yet. The code compiles but is probably not runnable as not every occurrence of _activeInventory has been properly replaced.
The usage of _v0ObjectIndex and _v0ObjectInInventory should be revised too and both variables should be replaced by another mechanism (maybe by using a single variable "obj = (type << 8) | id").
- moved v0 only vars _activeInventory, _activeObject, _activeVerb from ScummEngine_v2 to ScummEngine_v0
- removed _activeActor, _activeInvExecute, _activeObject2Inv and _activeInventory. They are handled by _activeObject/_activeObjectType and _activeObject2/_activeObject2Type now.
- removed _activeObject(2)Index as they only bloat the code without any benefit (?)
- merge prep-name tables from ScummEngine_v2::drawPreposition() and ScummEngine_v0::drawSentenceWord() by introducing ScummEngine_v2::drawPreposition()
- rename ObjectData.flags -> obj_type (quick-fix only, needs review! Maybe obj_nr and obj_type can be merged into one var: obj_nr = (obj_type << 8) | obj_nr)
- o_unknown2 is negation of o_ifActiveObject (o_ifNotEqualActiveObject2)
- renamed o_ifActiveObject -> o_ifEqualActiveObject2 as it acts only on _activeObject2
- renamed ScummEngine_v0::drawSentenceWord() -> ScummEngine_v0::getObjectName()
