Open p0008874 opened 2 years ago
There was discussion about this in Discord in late November:
Jmousy: "As far as I know, the dcr (Shockwave) format uses a completely different technology than flash, and it's very difficult to implement an emulator because there isn't even a huge amount of material to help with its implementation."
"'It is still possible for a director running the dcr format to run in IE, but it is difficult to use in a modern browser because it uses an old projector. It was also the reason why the built-in Flash player was removed from the browser due to security concerns. (Probably related to NPAPI.)"
"...emulating the dcr format is almost impossible at this point."
The ScummVM project is already working on Director emulation: https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=Director This is out of the scope of the Ruffle project, at least for the foreseeable future.
Is this still open by mistake?
I don't see any reason to close it really
alright, I thought since Ruffle isn't doing shockwave, this could be closed
Ruffle will support .DCR ?
The ScummVM project is already working on Director emulation: https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=Director
However, only version 4 and earlier appears to be within the scope of support, so before Director supported Shockwave authoring, for example: https://bugs.scummvm.org/ticket/14069
(This is not to express my interest in this matter.)
I'm aware. Hopefully either the scope will grow, or a new project will grow out of it. They're building a great foundation so we'll just have to see what happens.
from what I've seen, it seems like a 'minimum amount' of emulation is actually being or going to be done 'just enough' to make what cd games they have work I don't know a single person or project that has benefited from their effiorts yet, and not even themselves have
seems like its 'out of scope' for any project
The ScummVM project is already working on Director emulation: https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=Director
However, only version 4 and earlier appears to be within the scope of support, so before Director supported Shockwave authoring, for example: https://bugs.scummvm.org/ticket/14069
(This is not to express my interest in this matter.)
Given a ScummVM blog post on Director, which announced preliminary support for version 5 of Director and mentioned that ScummVM can detect titles for many Director versions up to version 11, I believe that ScummVM will eventually support Director version 6 and later, or at least those versions that support Shockwave authoring. Version 6 is generally the version supported by Director game titles from 1997.
Describe the feature Allow to open shockwave file with DIR, DCR, DXR Format. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Shockwave