laurence dougal myers


  • Have been working on a new version of ScummSpeaks, with more sophisticated packing/unpacking (extract resources like VOC and MIDI, saves some data in XML files, etc). Support for SCUMM V5 is complete, but I don't want to release it until I finish support for V4 and V3. Progress is currently stalled.
  • A simple download manager daemon for Linux (written in Python), based on PycURL/libcurl, to be run on my Network Attached Storage (NAS) drive (a Western Digital My Book World Edition). Currently has some basic queue processing, interaction is done via text files. Only downloads one file at a time, no multi-parts, but kind of supports cookies (they first have to be manually downloaded with cURL). Would like to add a PHP or Python web interface, also thinking of adding users, each with seperate queues, which get processed according to a chosen scheduling scheme (round-robin etc).
  • I've been asked if I would update ScummSpeaks to support the new Special Editions of Monkey Island (1 and 2). Would probably require writing a new app. I think there already exists tools that will replace the sound files (they're just WMAs), so I can't find the enthusiasm to work on this.
  • I have done absolutely nothing with the Robin Hood/Microcosm engine since around June/July 2009.
  • Tie dying black tee shirts and polo shirts with bleach is fun and can look pretty groovy, but they still reek of bleach, after soaking/washing/leaving outside for days.
I'm going to try and update more often and not just use this blog for software updates. That reminds me, I think Scummbler is broken for SCUMM V4 scripts - I really need to upload a fixed version some time.