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Written by Torbjörn Andersson on 2024-12-30 at 09:19

Barring any last-minute issues, I think this is almost ready to be merged. And if that wasn't time well spent I don't know what is!

@aaronsgiles 's Macintosh port of Day of the Tentacle, running in an experimental branch of ScummVM.

[#]ScummVM #LucasArts #Macintosh #RetroGaming

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Written by XtoF on 2024-12-30 at 11:02

@et_andersson @aaronsgiles I will ask a naïve question 😅

What’s the difference between the DOS and Mac versions? I mean, wasn’t the one of the points of running script language in a VM to be able to run the game on both environments, provided the VM was ported?

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Written by Torbjörn Andersson on 2024-12-30 at 12:37

@xtof @aaronsgiles

It depends on the game. The earliest ports have visibly different user interfaces. Some of them use digitized instruments and may have custom arrangements of the music to fit that.

For the last few games, I think the data files are identical to the DOS versions, with just some additional data for dialog windows, credits, etc. So much of the work was imitating the Mac widgets.

Of course, I'm looking from the outside. Aaron would be the one with some inside knowledge.

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