[MrFlibble]

Forgive for being completely out of the loop, but are these Windows ports mentioned in the quote based on the original code?

[Phredreeke]

Yes, Aaron explains how they came about on his website Here's a list he posted on the Discord of where the ports showed up

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Maniac Mansion -- never released
Zak McCracken -- never released
Indy Crusade -- Steam release with DRM
Loom -- Steam release with DRM
Monkey 1 -- never released
Monkey 2 -- never released
Indy Fate -- Steam release with DRM; also released on CD with Spanish re-release
DoTT -- released on CD with French re-release
Sam & Max -- released on CD with English, French, German, and Italian re-releases
Full Throttle -- released on CD with English, French, Spanish re-releases
The Dig -- Steam release with DRM; also released on CD with English, French, Italian, Spanish re-releases

[Phredreeke]

I also forgot to post this. a video Aaron made comparing the different intro crawls in various Star Wars games

[Phredreeke]

Reposting this from the discord server

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A little bit of DREAMM-related news: Digital Eclipse is releasing their "Tetris Forever" collection today, which features many different versions of Tetris, including a couple of early DOS versions... which are running on top of (a slightly modified) DREAMM! 🙂 https://youtu.be/aJ2xZrJTcnI

[Lunick]

I didn't realise DREAMM was something that could be used by other developers, makes sense

[jkas789]

Phredreeke, on 31 October 2024 - 12:48 PM, said:

Yes, Aaron explains how they came about on his website Here's a list he posted on the Discord of where the ports showed up

That link was a very interesting read. Thanks! The whole Programming section is interesting, even for a layman like me.

[Phredreeke]

Somehow I forgot to post this from about two weeks ago

Yesterday Aaron followed it up with this


I asked Aaron if multiplayer would work between games running in DREAMM and games running outside of it.

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Depends. If the game uses raw sockets (like Outlaws winsock driver) then yes. However, games that use DirectPlay speak their own protocol. The protocol is documented, and I have implemented an approximation of it, but it's not compatible with the real thing.

[Phredreeke]

From Aaron's Mastodon

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After a bit of chatter on the Discord, I've decided that the next DREAMM version will be 4.0. This was based on the fact that since 3.0 came out I've added support for:

networking (both winsock and DirectPlay)
movie playback (both QuickTime and AVI)
Direct3D Retained Mode
far more complete scripting
nearly a dozen new games (covering the full LEC catalog up to 2000, including Lucas Learning)
Which seems like enough to warrant a full version bump.

Hoping to get some early alpha testing in January, with betas in February-March depending on how things go.

[Phredreeke]

List of new games to be supported in 4.0

* Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter
* Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance
* Star Wars: Rebellion
* Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D (not working yet)
* Star Wars Episode I: Racer
* Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
* Star Wars: DroidWorks
* Star Wars Episode I: The Gungan Frontier
* Star Wars: Yoda's Challenge Activity Center
* Star Wars: Pit Droids
* Monopoly Star Wars

[Morpheus Kitami]

Oh, nice, he's going through that era of Star Wars games now. Even in Wine, I know like three of those have issues running and a few others have trouble even after.

[Phredreeke]

Four more games added for DREAMM 4.0

Star Wars: Anakin’s Speedway, Star Wars: Early Learning Activity Center, Star Wars Math: Jabba’s Game Galaxy, Star Wars: Jar Jar’s Journey

[Phredreeke]

Aaron Giles on Retro Repair Roundup podcast

[Phredreeke]

DREAMM 4.0 is now in beta

An exciting new feature is nukeykt's SC55 emulator (without using loopmidi or similar). To use it you need to import the roms for a compatible sc55 model, do so by opening the options menu from the launcher, then click tools and Manage Soundfonts and ROMs. Now you can just drop the SC55 roms on the DREAMM window and they will install. Then select General MIDI on a game that supports it (off my head, Sam & Max Hit the Road, DOTT, Dark Forces and the DOS versions of X-Wing and Tie Fighter do)