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|          FreeSCI 0.3.5  --  OpenVMS Port  vs.  vanilla Linux tree          |
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 STATUS 
          SUPPORTED 
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          King's Quest 4 
	  Police Quest 2 
	  Leisure Suit Larry 2 
	  Leisure Suit Larry 3 
          Space Quest 3 
	  Quest for Glory 1 
          Colonel's Bequest  
          Conquests of Camelot 
          Codename ICEMAN 
          King's Quest 1 SCI remake 


          NOT supported
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          Quest for Glory 2 
 

 A. BUILD SYSTEM & PLATFORM GLUE
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  DESCRIP.MMS ......... NEW. MMK/MMS descrip replacing autoconf/Makefile.
  __VMS auto-guard .... OPENVMS auto-#defined from __VMS; no -DOPENVMS, and
                        #ifdef OPENVMS code can never silently vanish.
  fnmatch_openvms.c ... NEW. Provides fnmatch(); scicore/fnmatch.c NOT built
                        (its BeOS headers break the DEC C build).
  sdl_stubs_openvms.c . NEW. SDL shim glue for the VMS SDL port.
  sound_stubs_openvms.c NEW. Null/stub sound-server entry points.
  scitypes.h, tools.c,
  sci_memory.h ........ Type / memory / path portability shims.

 B. GRAPHICS  (gfx/drivers/sdl_driver.c -- largest single change)
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  PALETTE FIX : primary physical palette pushed via SDL_SetColors (not
                LOGPAL-only) -- fixes the all-black screen.
  PERF FIX    : dirty-rectangle SDL_UpdateRect, not a full-screen push
                every event cycle -- restores playable speed.
  operations.c, gfx_tools.c, gfx_resource.c, sci_pic_0.c, gfx_drivers.c,
  sci_resmgr.c ........ registration / minor VMS adjustments.

 C. ENGINE / INPUT / FILES
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  engine/kevent.c ..... Char-select: gated on global_108 prevSignal==2/3;
                        null server emits ABSOLUTE sound cues paced by
                        HANDSHAKE (once/cycle) + WRAPS counter for loops.
  engine/kfile.c ...... Saving: two hardcoded "soundserver_dead" guards
                        wrapped in #ifndef OPENVMS -- unblocks save games.
  main.c .............. NEW switch -R/--restore-savegame <name>: load a save
                        directly, no config file needed.
  Debug logging ....... File-dump logging (debug_file/DEBUG_LOG) REMOVED
                        across ~10 files (was on the hot path).

 D. GENERAL SCI FIXES  (correct, harmless to SCI0, kept)
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  engine/ksound.c ..... kDoSound also routes to SCI01 path when resmgr
                        sci_version == SCI_VERSION_01 (patchlevel misroutes).
  resource_patch.c .... loose-patch header honours filehdr[1]:
                        patch_hdr = 2 + filehdr[1] (was hardcoded 2).
  Found via QFG2 but verified against stock FreeSCI; zero effect on SCI0.


 WHY QFG2 (SCI01) WAS DROPPED
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  QFG2 does not fit FreeSCI 0.3.5's FIXED 64 KB SCI heap (16-bit offsets,
  0xffff sentinel = hard limit). Shortfall GREW per stage: room 70 -131 B
  (a 512 B stack trim covered it), then char-gen cloning, then game script
  0x64 -~4 KB. Real fix = restore the reference-counted script GC upstream
  #if 0'd out: large, QFG1-regression-risky, beyond this port's scope.
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