Hi all, I have been very busy lately. Why? (you ask, with a slight note of disinterest  ) because I have been working double time on the Readme/FAQ I have been writing for the PalmOS port of ScummVM. You can see the current work in progress in this entry in the PalmOS subforum of the Official ScummVM Forums. I am also proud to say that the Readme/FAQ is the current news item at Chrilith.com. This document is constantly growing, as every day more and more people post additional tips and tricks for getting the most out of ScummVM on their individual devices. If any of these contributors are reading this right now, thank you for all the help, I really appreciate it. All and all I really hope  this helps Chrilith out a bit, his excellent work with the PalmOS port of ScummVM has allowed me to carry the ability to play Monkey Island whenever i want in my pocket . I may have posted it a hundred times or so but thanks again Chrilith, You rock man!

 

I intend to post more about this as the document matures (It was posted 2-3 days ago and i have already edited it 14 times )

 

till then...

 

Later

 

 

 

Well if you come here regularly (and really... who does? ) you will have noticed a lot of new things popping up. Ive been doing a lot of work on the site as I am preparing to evenually set up a real webpage with media, downloads, and really fancy widgets :P.

 

 

~ A list of games in my Adventure Collection. Where possible I have set it up so each title has a link to their respective web page at Lucasarts Museum. In the future once i get my own webspace i will try to add more pictures To the Avdenture Collection photo album

 

~ A list of Wii links: The Wii is quite possibly the best system i've ever used. As a Monkey Island fan it is impossible for me not to get stoked at the concept of an entire console based on the "point and click" dynamic.

 

~New pics, and a showing of my new avatar. I've been fiddleing with Nero Photosnap and just the standard windows Paint program and am quite proud of how a few (not all ;P) of these turned out. 'Straight outta hell' is now my wallpaper

 

Basically I am going to take advantage of microsofts "generosity" and attempt to use this space as pseudo-Real-webspace untill i can get a real site up.

 

Until then expect to see lots of layout changes as I try to fit in the new lists i will be adding (lists ar very flexible :) )

Okay so... I havent posted here in a really long time. So much has been happening over the last bit that my head is spinning.

 

Where to start... Hmmm..... Updates

 

I upgraded my GPU to the new GeForce pci Card and have since been enjoying a plethora of new 3D adventures

On that Note...

 

!!!Two Episodes of Sam and Max have been released since last I posted!!!

 

This is clearly an example of me failing to accomplish the goals established in my original Mission Statement for this blog.

While I apologize for this, I also make no promises to try any harder

 

The currently released titles are thus

 

EP1: Culture Shock

 

A Villainous Mastermind has brainwashed 4 former child stars to promote his Hypnosis inducing ocular fitness tapes in order to dominate the airwaves.

 

EP2: Situation Comedy

 

A famous tv talkshow host\guru cracks up and takes an entire studio hostage. I hate to say it but i think Oprah might end like this (wearing her Dr Phil suit)

 

Personal dislike of oprah/Dr phil aside, the games are fantastic, Telltate has been doing a fantastic job with the series and i cant wait for the next one.

 

Next on the list *opens scratchpad, flips a few pages* Oh yes!

 

!!!!!!!The Nintendo Wii is out!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Not only is it available but it has been world wide for quite some time now.

I managed to get one (and Zelda TP) on launch day, after a very long and cold lineup. That wal-mart was the only plake in the skeena region that had Wii's on lauch day. The place was packed, Mosly everyone was joking about the PS3 bb-gun drive-by incedent.

I also ran into an old "friend" of mine from almost 20 years ago. I was sort of messed up, but nevermind about that.

 

I recently completed The new Zelda and I have nothing but good things to say about the experience. 50+ hours of steady progress during gameplay and boss fights that make you stand up and yell "Take That Mothe****er!!!" in victory make one hell of a combination.

 

 

Next...

 

Over the last few weeks i have become way more active at ScummVM. I have always been around the forums a lot but lately i have been wanting to do more. These days you can see me pretty regularly at #scummvm on irc learning how to compile under Dev-C++, a process that i will probably document and commit to the WIKI. Recently in my spare time I have been working on a Readme/FAQ for the PalmOS port and have made significant progress on it. I sent the WIP readme to the PalmOS dev Chrilith and It sound like we should be able to get together on it and make a final draft fairly soon. In fact, with regards to ScummVM, the last few weeks have been fantastic. Currently peres (the dev creating the new parralaxion engne) has really been helping me a lot in figuring out how to compile ScummVM and in the process I have learned so much. A real bonus is that I get to see (and possibly even help) this new engine evolve into a stable release and in the process i can learn the fundamentals of Reverse Engineering an engine for ScummVM.

 

I am so ridiculously stoked about this I cant believe it (hence the lack of any formatting above)

 

I think my next ScummVM project will be a series of instructional videos for New Users, probably hosted via youtube. Ive found a few direct screen video capture program that should work for what i need it to. From there its just a matter of editing it together with a voice over and Descriptive visual effects. Im Looking forward to doing this one.

 

 

 

[Inert Favorite Chuck Norris Joke Here] ~sorry about the re-run.

 

Anyways, thats enough blogging for me for one day