![]() Setting aside that abandoning OpenDoc turned out to be the right call, I see a dude trying to get a rise out of Jobs and Jobs handling it in a very respectful way, going as far as admitting they make mistakes and that he is flawed, but that ultimately the decisions are made with the end user (and sales) in mind and less with what kind of nifty technology is behind it. Not sure if you linked the wrong video, but the one you linked to barely supports your comment. If I had to choose between that experience or Apple forcing me every year to learn an entirely new programming language + UI framework + persistent storage framework I’ll happily become a polyglot because the MS way of doing things is ridiculous. Hell, the fact that they had to skip Windows 9 because of so many devs checking for a 9 to detect 95/98 is another such messy nonsense. You start out with Win 11 stuff but oh, you want to use that one thing? Now you’re lopped into Windows 7 stuff oh you want this other thing, enjoy this XP app, etc, etc.Īll in the name of backwards compatibility, no thank you. Just one look at the gazillion ways Windows 11 has implemented configuration apps, from as far back as the XP era, has me shudder. Once I changed the path and device configuration I was able to load all of the games.As an end user it’s already annoying how, mainly big devs, are extremely slow in adopting the latest APIs, this would only motivate them more to just sit on their laurels.Īs a dev for Apple platforms it would become a buggy mess and would lead to less bumping of target OS versions, which in turn leads to needing to reinvent wheels and coming up with time consuming workarounds. The directory name "/sdcard" is probably there for historic or compatibility reasons, it exists and points to the common files for all apps with storage read permissions.Įver since the update to 1.9 I had this problem, but never had a chance to look into it. It has no SD card and it runs on Android 7. This is interesting, as the workaround with setting browser_lastpath=/sdcard indeed works on a Nexus 5X. Goetz wrote:Thanks for the detailed description. Now you can find your games and add them.Ĭan you let us know if that worked for you? ![]() Hit "Add game" and you should now see all folders of your accessible files on the device. Start ScummVM and wait for the launcher to appear.Ĩ. Edit it and change the following entry to a valid directory: browser_lastpath=/sdcardħ. ![]() ![]() ensure that the file editor shows hidden directories and navigate to the sub-directory: files/.config/scummvmĦc. (might also simply be /sdcard/Android/data/)Ħb. With a an Android file browser/editor app navigate to the place, where the ScummVM data is stored, usually: Change "Data installation location" to "SD-Card storage" (remember, this is only a name, not a physic al card here!)Ħa. Hit the "Change Device Configuration" button quicklyģ. Make sure ScummVM has the permission to access filesĢ. To make it work, please do the following:Ġ. Just had a look at ScummVM and the workaround and found the problem elsewhere. The directory name "/sdcard" is probably there for historic or compatibility reasons, it exists and points to the common files for all apps with storage read permissions. Now you can find your games and add them. Hit "Add game" and you should now see all folders of your (internal or external) SD card. Then save the file, quit the editor and run ScummVM. Edit it and change the following entry to a valid directory: This is the path for the SDL port of ScummVM, the non-SDL port might have a different path name, but IMHO the SDL port is better to use anyway.Įnsure that the file editor shows hidden directories and navigate to the sub-directory: (might also simply be /sdcard/Android/data/) Here is a workaround, which will probably take longer to describe than to perform: That way, once the file browser hits the "/" dir, it shows the empty list you see and you have no chance leaving this directory ever again. Accessing files in the internal memory (AKA "internal emulated SD-CARD") is fine, just the ScummVM launcher file browser does not get the permissions to display certain directories (same for all other apps). Recently upgraded my Nexus N to Android N, too. This seems indeed to be related to Android N and how access to the file system is handled. ![]()
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