Opened 10 months ago

Last modified 10 months ago

#14753 closed defect

SCUMM: OSX crash with misread local Macintosh resource forks — at Version 2

Reported by: dwatteau Owned by:
Priority: normal Component: Engine: SCUMM
Version: Keywords:
Cc: Game:

Description (last modified by dwatteau)

Both an Engine-SCUMM and Port-OSX issue, I'd say...

On branch-2-8 on OSX PPC. The original Indy3 and Monkey1 Macintosh binaries have been copied "as-is" from the HFS disks to the local HFS+ filesystem, so the resource forks are still there. But, strangely, upgrading from ScummVM 2.7.1 to ScummVM 2.8.0pre, it looks like the resource fork is not properly read by ScummVM on OSX anymore.

The original Macintosh releases of Monkey1 and Indy3 now trigger crashes on this port, which didn't happen on 2.7.1. 2.8.0 now makes use of the original Macintosh binaries (for original GUI and improved sound), but (AFAICS) the engine doesn't check for the proper format of those resources, so if invalid content is read, the engine crashes.

GDB logs below.

Another way of reproducing the crash on a different system is to emulate a bad extraction of the resource fork (such as a blind cp call from Linux reading the HFS disk), which typically gives you zero-byte files:

$ echo -n > "/path/to/INDY3-MAC/Indy"
$ echo -n > "/path/to/MONKEY1-MAC/Monkey Island"

Of course, users should follow our guide about preserving the resource forks, but the crash is probably "not nice" (we could maybe at least check for a 0-byte file?). Moreover, on OSX, reading the local resource fork used to work (without any need to macbinary-encode it).

Change History (4)

by dwatteau, 10 months ago

Attachment: indy3-mac.txt added

by dwatteau, 10 months ago

Attachment: monkey1-mac.txt added

comment:1 by dwatteau, 10 months ago

Component: --Unset--Engine: SCUMM
Description: modified (diff)
Summary: SCUMM: OSX PPC crash when loading Macintosh resource forksSCUMM: OSX PPC crash with misread local Macintosh resource forks

comment:2 by dwatteau, 10 months ago

Description: modified (diff)
Summary: SCUMM: OSX PPC crash with misread local Macintosh resource forksSCUMM: OSX crash with misread local Macintosh resource forks

Actually, the crash when reading an original resource fork (which is not macbinary-encoded, but just copied as-is to the local HFS+/APFS volume) is there on modern macOS, too.

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