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I find your copy/paste research about the SCUMM engine fascinatiing!

Go and do that port why don't you.

I think it would be easyer to invent a new scripting engine, than to reverse engineer monkey island... but thats still not easy. The main problem is rather this than codings/gfx, etc. The converts are ok, but nothing mindblowing, a c64 gfxman can do those pix 10 times as nice.

shifter: of course it was copy and paste. What's the problem?

Those conversions keep the original aspect of the game. Who cares if someone else could pixel them better? They look very nice I think.

I did not play Monkey Island so I don't realize the size of the project.

Anyway if a c64 gfxman could make greater justice to the game and the real potential of the C64 than some automated conversions, why passing by ?

Whatever the project is cool. But who will have the guts and motivation to work on it till the end.

What project?

null:
"why should it be better if its already good?"
"why should it be on c64 if its already on amiga?"

Slummy: who said it should be better? It should be on C64 for the same reason Maniac Mansion is on it and besides I think Amiga is really crap. I mean. Videogames on C64 were really something... on Amiga I always had the feeling that they were not as good as they could have been. That's why I played a lot on C64 and never on Amiga. On C64 I had this "oh look what astonishing graphics, theyare really good" sensation. On Amiga: "what crap! They have the resources to do better and they just don't!"....

Want a simple example?

Look at this screen from C64 version of Led Storm:



Now look the amiga one.... it's total crap!



Monkey Island on Amiga could have been better... instead they just ported the PC screens and did not use all the resources.

other example:



they really painted a good one on c64 ...

what on amiga? A super crappy screen with that perspective effect from dpaint. Just looks ugly

oh no, yet another platform flamewar starting... -_-

no flaming. I am just saying that I played games on c64 and only watched demos and intros on Amiga... I really played only 4 or 5 games on Amiga

i hope you include pinball dreams as one of them or you're in for big trouble mister ;)

Bringing up a couple of crappy ports fails to illustrate whatever point you're trying to make.

I mean just look at Rez on the Dreamcast and PS2:



Obviously the PS2 port isn't pushing the boundaries of the platform. Hence the PS2 sucks! </retarded>

PC:


Amiga:


this clearly proves that pc sucks and amiga rules, and this is why I only watch sceneprods on A*M*I*G*A*H!

welcome to pouet :P may the *BASS* begin :P

this started out interesting, but it seems to have devolved into an argument... i think porting a newer scumm engine based on info from scummvm might actually work better than trying to convert monkey island to the maniac mansion version of scumm.

n-gage:


x-box:


Clearly, the latter is less impressive!

I didn't tell Amiga is crap for demos.

I WANT C64 FOR MONKEY ISLAND! SCUM CAN RUN EMULATOR!

null, make the C64 beat this:

beat that? it's easy:

hours of pure videogaming joy

this discussion is pointless, we all know that c64 sucks because chuckie egg spectrum version is alot better.