[Ender]

See http://www.scummvm.org/, http://freesci.org/ and http://sarien.sourceforge.net/ for more information!

[Wormsie]

That's like whoa.

[2GooD]

That's like haha.

[Dale Baldwin]

*smirk*

[ChaosFish]

It's an april fool's joke you morons

[Ender]

Originally Posted by ChaosFish

It's an april fool's joke you morons

Nope. It was just announced on the 1st so Exult (http://exult.sf.net/) could do an April fools about it. CABAL is a serious project!

[Marek]

I think this is a great idea, and it's actually something I've wished for. I don't think this is entirely a joke.

[WontonGoodsoup]

I guess i'm either just stupid, or just missing something....what is this all about??

[ragnar]

Nice fool. I especially like this one:

Originally Posted by Fool

Revolution software has offered the source-code for Broken Sword 3, which will be added to the titles supported by the upcoming CABAL3D project - alongside with Grim Fandango and, possibly, Ultima IX (negotiations are ongoing).

and this:

Originally Posted by Fool

Offers by various companies, including Microsoft and Amiga International, to buy out the team have been gently but firmly declined by the leads of the joint project. "We know that we could earn a lot of money from this, but we are idealists and at this time we have the goal to reform the worlds adventure market. Once that is achieved, we can reconsider about making some money out of this.

[AGA]

While there are suspiciously unlikely things, as Ragnar quoted, it could be that they're lying about some things (like BS3 support) just to make people think it is an April Fools...
This thread has a long discussion about it...

[ragnar]

http://www.cabal.org/

[Wormsie]

Originally Posted by ChaosFish

It's an april fool's joke you morons

Hehe, I knew that.

http://www.scummvm.org
CABAL team splits over fundamental design issues

After yesterdays ground-breaking announcement, we are sad to announce the immediate disbandment of the CABAL team. Over the last several days there has been heated debate regarding several important design issues, and current tension in the team has risen to an insurmountable level.

"It's really unfortunate", Max Horn, senior developer on ScummVM and Exult, was quoted as saying, "but [former FreeSCI maintainer] Christoph [Reichenbach]'s ideas of aligning curly braces with the left-hand side of function declarations while appending them to the end of the line for 'while' and 'for' loops did not make any sense at all."
The latter replied by pointing out that "using anything but tabs for indentation is calling for trouble."

Claudio Matsuoka, of the Sarien project, pointed out his disappointment and noted that he didn't see much of a point in trying to co-operate with people entirely incapable of reaching agreements on such trivial issues. "I mean, we haven't even resolved the entire EMACS vs. vi dispute, and they're already at each other's throats again."
James Brown, another senior developer on the ScummVM project, sadly announced that he was laughed out of the project meer hours before a decision to split was made. "They just said I didn't belong, since I prefer nano as a editor..." he admitted.

[Marek]

Interestingly, Cabal has apparently been discussed for a while before april 1 on #scummvm.