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January 21st 2022, 12:33 PM
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Basically, the FreeDink code would be ported to run as an engine under ScummVM. At it's simplest, it would simply be remapped to use the ScummVM core for portability rather than, for example, the SDL calls it currently makes. This means that any existing functionality, including all ability is has to run D-Mods would remain unaffected. Just like with the recent inclusion of AGS, we'd ideally need to prepare a detection list of all known D-Mods so that the ScummVM launcher front-end can recognise them. Though a "fallback detection" of unknown/new D-Mods is also possible.

Later on, there may also be further improvements FreeDink can utilize from ScummVM. Though the main thing still will be that under ScummVM it'll be available to run on more systems.