However, if I taught you the english (or rather, latin) alphabet, then you'd be a lot lot faster. This is what basic virtual machines and old versions of DOSBox do, roughly. And if you happen to be sloppy, the result might not be quite accurate / readable, either. The end result will be more or less the same but clearly with this approach, it will take you a lot, lot longer. Rather, you will have to 'emulate' it: I can show you, one at a time, a picture of each letter, which you then meticulously copy. Then, you won't be able to comply to my request. If you are a native speaker and don't suffer from dyslexia, it will likely take you only a second to do so.Д«ut now assume you don't know english at all, nor the alphabet (let's say you 'only' speak and write chinese of course you can easily imagine the reverse setup, too ). Let's assume I told you to write down the word 'house'. Let me try to give you an idea of this by a (of course not fully accurate) comparison. So why did ScummVM chose this method of RE over VE? I am sorry but I am animator and don't know much about coding (apart from a bit of C-Script I did on AGS & A6 engines) so maybe this question might sound a bit 'this guy is out of his mind' to all the developers. Ports of this virtual dos would then have to be written for every different OS but its a lot easier writing a port for 8-10 OS's then to RE engines for 100+ games.

Besides, it would have been easier to simulate a dos and then let the games run on their own accord. I agree that with reverse-engineering porting to different OS would be easier (like PS2/PDA/MAC etc) but still reverse engineering an engine seems a lot harder. I support both of them as every avid gamer of the mid 90's does!) (Please note I am in NOWAY comparing DosBOX with ScummVM.

I mean instead of writing out every engine a game uses, it would have been easier in simulating a virtual environment originally meant for the game (eg DosBOX). That is, reverse-engineering(RE) compared to a virtual emulation(VE). I just wanted to discuss the pros/cons of the method ScummVM uses. My question is rather simple, but I am sure it has a long answer. First of all, I would like to congratulate all of you guys involved, directly or indirectly, with ScummVM.

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