ScummVM console edition uploaded

[Drooling Iguana]

I've tried the double-tap, but found it too unreliable and went back to using the buttons.  It's still very much playable with the buttons (although I can't figure out how to move the bike in the combat scenes) but it would be more convenient if flipped.

Anyway, if you can't, you can't, but if you do come across an sdl_flip() command or something along those lines, it would be a good feature to have in a future version of the port.

[ikm]

I've tried the double-tap, but found it too unreliable and went back to using the buttons.  It's still very much playable with the buttons (although I can't figure out how to move the bike in the combat scenes) but it would be more convenient if flipped.

Anyway, if you can't, you can't, but if you do come across an sdl_flip() command or something along those lines, it would be a good feature to have in a future version of the port.

I played with the double tap all the time, well, maybe it's a matter of taste
To navigate your bike you should put the cursor to be touching either left or right screen boundary. You move your stylus either to the extreme left or to extreme right, only then the bike will be steering. To cancel the effect, tap the screen in the middle, so the cursor is no longer near the boundary. It is possible to complete all the fighting in the canyon solely on the Zaurus, I've managed to do it. I haven't tried the racing episode though, as I rememered it was quite hard even on the regular PC... Well, in case it is impossible on the Zaurus, I've heard there is some cheat in the game to bypass it, don't really know about it.

ScummVM doesn't use the SDL_Flip() function, it updates the screen only where necessary. I recall some dirty region lists maintained... Looking now, the main process seems be happening in the update_screen() function, in backends/sdl/sdl.cpp, but I don't really want to grok in all the subtleties in order to perform the rotation. Well, patches are always welcome, and the thing is perfectly hackable on the regular PC

[Drooling Iguana]

Oh yeah, forgot that there actually was an SDL_Flip() function that switches between framebuffers.  I was using it as an example of a way to quickly and easily invert the screen, although if SDL only updates on a region-by-region basis then that sort of thing would be tough to implement even if that function did exist.

Well, it'd be pretty easy to implement, actually, but you'd lose all the performance benifits of only updating by region.

[ikm]

Oh yeah, forgot that there actually was an SDL_Flip() function that switches between framebuffers.  I was using it as an example of a way to quickly and easily invert the screen, although if SDL only updates on a region-by-region basis then that sort of thing would be tough to implement even if that function did exist.

Well, it'd be pretty easy to implement, actually, but you'd lose all the performance benifits of only updating by region.

Note that it is not SDL that maintains dirty rects, but ScummVM. The sdl.cpp file mentioned is part of the ScummVM source code, not of an SDL.

[ikm]

Now that the RC3 is out, it is now possible to switch the Xserver to 320x240 via xrandr. Furthermore, it is possible to invert the screen via xrandr, too! I'm going to update the ScummVM package shortly, now suited for running within X, with xrandr, new upstream version, and with the Simon and BASS problems fixed. Stay tuned

[Drooling Iguana]

Oh yeah, forgot that there actually was an SDL_Flip() function that switches between framebuffers.  I was using it as an example of a way to quickly and easily invert the screen, although if SDL only updates on a region-by-region basis then that sort of thing would be tough to implement even if that function did exist.

Well, it'd be pretty easy to implement, actually, but you'd lose all the performance benifits of only updating by region.

Note that it is not SDL that maintains dirty rects, but ScummVM. The sdl.cpp file mentioned is part of the ScummVM source code, not of an SDL.

That was a typo.  I meant to say "if ScummVM only updates on a region-by-region basis...", not SDL.