amiga-news.de - Today grand opening of The Butterfly Vale

21.Jan.2003
Rüdiger Hanke (ANF)

Today grand opening of The Butterfly Vale
Ladies and Gentlemen, children of all ages! The Butterfly Vale has opened its gates for visitors. The Vale is your future source for MorphOS ports and high-quality own MorphOS developments.

As for your journey to us, please recall that the Vale is located in a remote place where the air is still fresh and clean. We would like to keep it that way and ask you to if possible leave your power-consuming Pentium switched off and use alternate means of transportation. We recommend coming in by flying horse.

Here's a short overview of our main attractions. While you browse our various areas, you may notice that we have some smaller archives up that are not mentioned here.

cdda.library 1.0

cdda.library is a MorphOS library that provides CD digital audio services to A-Box programs. Developers benefit from the library's high-level functions such as drive search by certain criteria, looped playing of CD sections, event callbacks and author/track title information where available.

Users benefit from the library's drive autorecognition by not having to enter or even recall any device/unit values in most cases - thanks to cdda.library's powerful functions, ScummVM MorphOS is the only port that does not need the user to specify a CD drive.

ScummVM 0.3.0b + new CVS

The full ScummVM 0.3.0b MorphOS distribution is now online. It includes an updated PDF manual, and the icons have been converted to Ambient format. Also, there are now new icons for the Simon the Sorcerer games.

A new CVS snapshot has been uploaded as well, this one is the first public MorphOS snapshot with experimental, preliminary support for "THE CURSE OF MONKEY ISLAND", as well as support for the Mac/Amiga versions of Simon the Sorcerer 2 and early support for the CD32 version of Simon the Sorcerer.

Exult 1.0

Exult is a rewrite of the Ultima 7 engine for modern operating systems. It allows you to play one of the best and most detailed parts of Origin's famous Ultima series. Exult has recently turned to version 1.0 which means that both parts of Ultima 7, "The Black Gate" and "The Silver Seed" along with their add-ons "The Black Sword" and "Forge of Virtue" are fully supported now. The original data files are required to play.

FreeSCI 0.3.4

The MorphOS port of FreeSCI had been announced three days ago on the FreeSCI homepage (http://freesci.linuxgames.com). Today saw the official release of FreeSCI 0.3.4, and the MorphOS version is available for download from the Vale on the same day! FreeSCI is an attempt to create a portable interpreter for games written for Sierra On-Line's SCI system. Playable games include King's Quest IV, Space Quest 3, Leisure Suit Larry 2 & 3, The Colonel's Bequest, and several others. 32 bit Ambient icons for nine games known to be completable are included in the archive.

Frotz

Frotz is an interpreter for the adventure games produced by Infocom, and fan works created with Graham Nelson's Inform compiler. Frotz MorphOS Release 1 is based on David Kinder's Amiga port, Release 14 (the current Amiga version is release 16). Major changes to the Amiga version (14) are:

Updated port to Frotz 2.43 code base
Made Frotz fully graphics cards compliant
Rewrote GUI code from BGUI to MUI
Rewrote audio.device code to AHI
Aspect correction for V6 graphics
Fixed lots of preferences issues

Inform

Graham Nelson's Inform allows you to write your own games to run on Infocom interpreters. In addition to the binary, I've provided an archive with most material from Glenn Hutchings' all-in-one Inform package. It is meant for new users who want to start quickly with Inform. It includes the library, some useful 3rd party contributions, examples and a tutorial, all ready to use.

Magnetic

Magnetic is an interpreter for the adventure games once produced by the British company Magnetic Scrolls. It is based on David Kinder's Amiga port. Major changes from the Amiga version are:

Rewrote Copper code to proper graphics cards compliant code
Implemented title splash screen
Implemented animations for Magnetic Windows games
Implemented online hints for Magnetic Windows games

The Butterfly Vale is looking forward to your visit. Also keep in mind that this is just the beginning ... (ps)

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