There are those of us whose hearts tremble at titles like "Full Throttle", "Monkey Island", and "King's Quest". There are also those who occasionally wipe the dust off their shelves and fall into nostalgic reverie, having discovered a long-forgotten collection of old games. However, they all will most likely end up with an enormous disappointment if they do decide to give these games a try once again - either their newer system will not support them, or there simply will be too little time to enjoy a full-length adventure game. ScummVM can be a solution to these problems.
ScummVM is a program that combines many newly-rewritten engines of old point&click games and is capable of interacting with those games' resource files directly, bypassing original scripts. Thus it enables you to run these games on many platforms, even those where they were never intended to run. You can play your favourite quests windowed or full screen on a brand-new Windows, Mac OS or Linux; you may even upload them into your iPhone or PSP and enjoy playing outdoors. Because ScummVM provides rewritten engines for the old games, it becomes possible to use various video filters to smoothen overpixelised graphics, or compress some resource files - or even use soundfonts to make the MIDI music sound more like an orchestra. Note, that this program does not emulate a separate system to run the games, and therefore its performance greatly surpasses that of DosBox or Wine etc.
The list of implemented engines (quite imposing already) grows continuously as the team of developers contacts original authors of adventure games and gets their source codes - among others, for example, support for "Discworld" series is being added.
v1.8 [Nov 6, 2014]
- Added Nintendo 3DS port.
- Added Android SDL port.
- Removed TESTING flag from several supported games.
- Added Chinese Pinyin translation.
- Fixed cursor stuttering in the launcher that occured on some systems.
- Fixed game restart.
- Fixed sound effect loading.
- Fixed text alignment to be faithful to the original.
- Fixed character walking off screen.
- Fixed loading savegames in the Pendulum scene.
- Fixed wrong background for inventory items during chapter 6 in the Spanish version.
- Fixed animations speed (they were running two times slower than in the original engine).
- Fixed noise at start and/or end of speech. This was most noticeable with the Spanish speech.
- Fixed delay when interacting with the verb menu and the inventory.
- Fixed possibility to pick up the axe in the castle multiple times.
- Fixed lock up for some games during sound initialization.
- Fixed potential crash when using swamp snake potion on the rat in Hand of Fate. (NOTE: This fix was included in version 1.8.0, but it was not added to the NEWS file).
- Fixed missing voice reactions when hitting enemies in CD version of Lands of Lore.
- Fixed lock-up during ending sequence.
- Improved internal game controls.
- Fixed lock-up during some in-game animations.
- Fixed user interface colors in the French and German versions of I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.
- Make cursor workarounds work properly on OpenPandora (and other devices, that support touch screen and analog sticks/mouse at the same time)
- Script patch to fix broken ending battle in multilingual King's Quest 5 (French, German Spanish versions are all broken)
- Fixed invalid memory access, when loading broken King's Quest 5 credit music track
- Fixed lowres/hires issues in King's Quest 6 when saving, changing the lowres/hires setting and restoring the saved game afterwards.
- Fixed detection of Maniac Mansion from Day of the Tentacle in the Windows version of ScummVM.
- Fixed a sound effect not stopping in Loom EGA with AdLib.
- Added option to use English speech instead of German one when no speech is available for the selected language.
- Fixed resource releasing on game exit.
- Fixed game restart after language change in-game.
- Fixed flickering in main Menu.
- Fixed long save time on Windows.
- Fixed bug in MIDI device listing affecting cases where MIDI devices were not usable.
- Dock menu for ScummVM now lists recently played games when ScummVM is not running and allows starting those games.
- Enabled Sparkle application updater.
- Improved support for built-in ScummVM documentation.
Great platform for gamers who want to have access to all their favorite Electronic Arts games in one place
