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Régi Idő Játéka – SCUMMVM Grafika, multimédia, szórakozás Régi idõ játéka – SCUMMVM A lap Olvasói között remélhetõleg szép számban vannak azok, akik jólesõ nosztalgiával gondolnak vissza olyan legendás kalandjátékokra, mint a Maniac Mansion, a Monkey Island, a Sam & Max vagy a Broken Sword. Ezekkel a játékokkal ma a legfõbb gond az, hogy a túl gyors számítógépeken és a nyílt forrású operációs rendszereken nehéz vagy akár lehetetlen mûködésre bírni õket. Az ilyen játékok szerelmeseinek készül a SCUMMVM, egy olyan futtató környezet, mellyel az elõbb felsoroltak mellett még több tucat másikkal játszhatunk akár Linux alatt is. SCUMMVM név a Script Creation Utility for Maniac A Mansion Virtual Machine rö- vidítése. Eleinte a LucasArts kalandjá- tékok futtatására hozták létre, de ké- sõbb több más gyártó cég játékaira is sikerült „ráidomítani”. Közülük talán legismertebb a Revolution, amely olyan sikeres programokat tudhat magáénak, mint a Beneath a Steel Sky vagy a maga idejében egyedülálló Broken Sword. De ne feledkezzünk meg az Adventure 1. ábra A két kép közti különbségen jól látható a Supereagle szûrõ által nyújtott minõségjavulás Softról (Simon the Sorcerer) és a Coktail Visionról (Gobliiins) sem! Aki kíváncsi a SCUMMVM segítségével életre kelt- a http://www.scummvm.org/ ha a játék MP3-ba tömörített zenéjét hetõ játékok teljes listájára, látogasson downloads.php#extras címrõl. is szeretnénk hallgatni, akkor el a http://www.scummvm.org/ Ugyanitt találhatunk átvezetõ ani- a madlib-et is szerezzük be és for- © Kiskapu Kft. Minden jog fenntartva compatibility.php címre, ahol az mációkat a Broken Sword elsõ két dítsuk le a SCUMMVM elõtt. is megtalálható, hogy az adott részéhez; ezekre szükség lesz ha já- A forráskód fordítása a szokásos játék mennyire kompatibilis ték közben szeretnénk látni ezeket a SCUMMVM-mel. a képsorokat. Ebben az esetben ./configure && make Azoknál a programoknál, ahol ez a SCUMMVM fordítása elõtt töltsük még a játszhatóság rovására megy, le és telepítsük a libmpeg2 és libVorbis parancssorral történik, ezután pedig folyamatosan dolgoznak ennek csomagokat is! a program a javításán, így érdemes idõnként Maga a SCUMMVM a lehetõ legtelje- visszalátogatni ide és ellenõrizni, sebb mértékben kimeríti a „kereszt- ./scummvm hogy történt-e változás. Fontos el- platformos” fogalmat: Linux és Win- mondani, hogy a SCUMMVM-nek dows mellett Mac OS X, BeOS, Amiga paranccsal indítható. nem részei a felsorolt játékok, ahhoz változata is van, de letölthetjük akár hogy használni tudjuk õket rendel- Playstation 2-re vagy Symbanos A legegyszerûbb dolgunk akkor lesz, keznünk kell az eredeti program okostelefonra is! Keressük ki a nekünk ha a játék(ok) fájljait a merevlemezre (jogtiszta) fájljaival. Ez alól két, mos- megfelelõ változatot játékonként külön könyvtárba másol- tanra ingyenesen letölthetõvé tett a http://www.scummvm.org/ juk, de használhatjuk a gyári CD-ket kivétel van: a Beneath a Steel Sky és downloads.php címrõl, és telepítsük is. Nincs szükség az eredeti játék min- a Flight of the Amazon Queen. Mind- fel. A sikeres futtatáshoz elõzõleg fel- den adatállományára, a SCUMMVM kettõnek több változata letölthetõ telepített SDL-re lesz szükség, illetve által igényelt fájlok listája 78 Linuxvilág Grafika, multimédia, szórakozás scummvm sky Jó néhány kapcsolóval is bõvít- hetjük a parancsot, ezek közül a leg- fontosabbak: -f teljes képernyõs mód -g grafikus szûrõ kiválasztása -n feliratozás bekapcsolása --aspect-ratio képarány korri- gálása Ha tehát teljes képernyõn, feliratozva és a hq2x szûrõvel szépítve szeretnénk 2. ábra A Broken Sword hírhedt ír kecskéje látni a Beneath a Steel Sky-t, a követ- kezõ parancsot gépeljük be: a http://www.scummvm.org/docume scummvm -f -n -g hq2x sky © Kiskapu Kft. Minden jog fenntartva ntation.php?view=datafiles oldalon található. A több CD-n elterülõ játé- Ha a játék többszöri végigjátszása koknál (jelen pillanatban a Broken után bizonyos részeken szeretnénk Sword elsõ és második része) bizonyos gyorsan „végigszaladni”, erre is van fájlok ugyanolyan néven szerepelnek mód: a CTRL-F billentyûkombináció- mindkét lemezen. Ebben esetben az val gyorsabbá tehetjük a játékot. elõbb említett oldalon leírt eljárást kö- Célszerû azonban óvatosan bánni vetve nevezzük át õket: az elsõ CD-n ezzel a lehetõséggel, mivel eseten- található speech.clu-ból speech1.clu ként a szinkron elcsúszásához vagy lesz, a másik lemezrõl származót 3. ábra A világuralomra törõ csáp más hibákhoz vezethet. pedig nevezzük át speech2.clu-ra. Más okból is elõfordulhat – bár sze- A Broken Sword 2 esetében ezt meg rencsére igen ritkán van rá példa – kell tennünk a music.clu fájlokkal is. adott programot a listából kivá- hogy a program lefagy. Ilyen ese- A megjelenõ felületen az Add Game... lasztva az Edit Game... gombra tekben sem veszik kárba akár több gomb segítségével adhatunk játékot kattintunk, ahol lehetõségünk nyílik órányi játék, ugyanis a SCUMMVM a SCUMMVM listájához. Válasszuk minden általános beállítást felülbírál- ötpercenként lementi az aktuális ki a játék könyvtárát, kattintsunk ni. Ehhez a megfelelõ fület aktívvá játékállást a nulladik mentéshelyre, a Choose (kiválaszt) gombra, és ha téve tegyünk egy X-et az Override ezt bizonyos játékoknál az elmen- mindent jól csináltunk, a program global felirat elõtti négyzetbe, majd tett állások betöltésére szolgáló fel is ismeri a játékot. Ha az általános alatta végezzük el az általunk kívánt menüben a Restore Autosave beállítások megfelelõek, nyugtázzuk beállításokat. gombra kattintva vagy parancssorból az OK gomb megnyomásával. Ezután Természetesen nem csak a kezelõfelü- indítva a -x kapcsoló használatával a listában kiválasztott játékot a Start let segítségével, hanem parancssorból tölthetjük vissza. feliratra kattintva indíthatjuk. A játék is használhatjuk a SCUMMVM-et. Végül egy érdekes kapcsolót ajánlok futása közben az F5 billentyûvel jut- Ehhez tudnunk kell a használni kí- a kedves Olvasó figyelmébe: --alt- hatunk a menübe, ahol állást menthe- vánt játék nevének SCUMMVM-es rö- intro. Ennek segítségével a Beneath tünk/tölthetünk be vagy kiléphetünk vidítését, ami megtalálható a játékok a Steel Sky és a Flight of the Amazon a SCUMMVM-bõl. listáját tartalmazó oldalon és a readme Queen címû játékok CD-s változatá- A hagyományos 320x200-as felbon- fájlban egyaránt, de lekérhetjük a nak alternatív bevezetõ képsorait tást használva egy mai monitoron nézhetjük meg. (fõleg teljes képernyõs módban) scummvm -z rettenetesen kockás képet kapunk, Jó játékot mindenkinek! de a SCUMMVM ezen is segít. paranccsal is. A többféle változatban A kezelõfelület Options gombját kivá- megjelent játékoknak több kódja Bokor Norbert lasztva a Graphics fülön választhatunk is van, a Simon the Sorcerer elsõ ré- ([email protected]) számos minõségjavító szûrõ közül széhez például nyolc kód tartozik, Egy autóipari cégnél a Graphics mode redõnyt lenyitva. ilyenkor figyelmesen válasszuk ki informatikus, emellett Itt beállíthatjuk a teljes képernyõs a mi változatunkhoz illõt! Ha például Gyõrbe, a Széchenyi módot illetve a képarány esetleges az ingyenesen letölthetõ Beneath Egyetemre jár. A számí- torzulását is kiküszöbölhetjük. Az itt a Steel Sky-t szeretnénk indítani, tógép mellett imádja a társasjátéko- elvégzett módosítások az összes játék- melynek kódja sky, a következõ kat. Most éppen gitározni tanul. ra érvényesek lesznek, kivéve ha az parancsra lesz szükségünk: www.linuxvilag.hu 2006. november 79.
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