Posted
9 months
ago
by
nos...@scummvm.org (md5)
As you open the mailbox behind the white house, a wizard tells you that you're the lucky
sweepstakes winner, who can now play several great game titles by Activision under ScummVM!
We welcome the addition of the MADE engine by
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Activision. Four shiny new games are now
supported: The infamous Return to Zork, Leather Goddesses of Phobos 2, The Manhole and Rodney's
Funscreen
All you need to have is a copy of one of the aforementioned Activision games, and a new
daily build of ScummVM.
If you find any bugs, you're welcome to report them to our
bug tracker. Screenshots are also needed, which you can submit following our Screenshot submission guidelines. [Less]
Posted
9 months
ago
by
nos...@scummvm.org (sev)
As we turned to a 6 months release cycle, here is our newest and best ScummVM version for you!
A couple of new engines were added, and besides 2 Humongous Entertainment titles, we now support The 7th Guest and Bud Tucker in Double
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Trouble.
Among other notable things there is a completely new vector-based GUI, which is a merged work of our last year GSoC student Vicent Marti, as well as a General Main Menu which adds a common save/load interface to most of our engines, adding the much awaited Return to Launcher feature along the way. It was the work of another successful student, Chris Page.
A complete list of new games and features can be found in the release notes, and the latest ScummVM version itself (available for a large number of platforms as usual) is located at the downloads page.
Let's play! [Less]
Posted
10 months
ago
by
nos...@scummvm.org (sev)
Well, it is true. FreeSCI code now lives under engines/sci.
Most attentive users who watch our development list perhaps noticed that there exists yet another SCI1 engine implementation made from scratch. But for the benefit of everyone it
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was decided that the joint effort is much better.
Of course, don't expect any magic from it. First, the engine is not announced as supported yet. It is in early stages of integration. Then, you should keep in mind that after the merge will settle down, only SCI0, SCI0.1 and SCI1 games will be supported. However, due to fact that some of ScummVM developers are interested in SCI development for some time now, we look forward to speeding up the work on the engine.
In the meantime, please, help us some more with 0.13.0 version playtesting. [Less]
Posted
11 months
ago
by
nos...@scummvm.org (sev)
You always wondered where to get games supported by ScummVM? Perhaps you were also asking, how I can help the project?
You could find the supported games either on our downloads page, or on our Where to buy games page on our Wiki. For
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helping the project we have had a PayPal button for some time.
But now you can reach both goals at the same time!
We are pleased to announce the start of an affiliate program with the excellent Good Old Games service, also known as GOG.com. Just click on their button on the sidebar and you will be brought to the site. Register there and buy some games. You will get your game, cheap, fast and legally, and the ScummVM project will get a share of the proceeds.
The main reason behind this is that GOG.com uses ScummVM for several of their offered titles. Currently they offer Broken Sword 2, Simon the Sorcerer 1, Simon the Sorcerer 2, Feeble Files, Waxworks, as well as some of the free games which we offer too. Each release is nicely pre-packaged with ScummVM, is DRM-free, goes for just $5.99, and the most important thing, is completely legal, as those folks chase the original rights holders.
Thus, watch their site, buy the games, and help our project.
PS: We will get the money only if you click on the provided button and register within a short period of time. [Less]
Posted
11 months
ago
by
nos...@scummvm.org (sev)
It is time to announce start of our pre-release testing. Next version of ScummVM is bringing you several new supported games as usual.
The games which were added are: Blue's 123 Time Activities, Blue's ABC Time Activities, Bud Tucker in
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Double Trouble and The 7th Guest. The procedure haven't changed, same as usual you need daily build of ScummVM, run through the games and submit any bugs you see along the way to the bug tracker. Once you complete the game, report on the forum post so the wiki page could be updated accordingly. We will need the version of the game, language, and platform. [Less]
Posted
11 months
ago
by
nos...@scummvm.org (sev)
The developers of ScummVM are pleased to announce that as of today, the
classic game Discworld has full support for
James Woodcock's Music
Enhancement Project within the developers build. The project started
way back in
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January 2006 as James Woodcock committed himself to use the original
MIDI files from various Point and Click Adventure titles, creating enhanced
versions using modern MIDI equipment. He has already released the
Simon the Sorcerer version
and can now add Discworld to his completion list:
"I have tried very hard to remain faithful to the originals in respect to
the excellent composers creations..." says James Woodcock, creator of
the ScummVM Music Enhancement Project. He continues
"...There has been a lot of support and interest from Discworld fans, who have
been monitoring its progress very carefully and it is with great pleasure I can
finally play Discworld using new versions of the original soundtrack with many
thanks to the developers of ScummVM for all their hard work in making this
feature possible".
James uses the Yamaha Tyros2 keyboard hooked up to his computer via USB and
after going through various tweaking, recording and editing, a finalised music
track is born.
With permission from legendary author
Terry Pratchett himself, the
Discworld enhanced soundtrack (version 2.0) will be released in full and
compatible with ScummVM in the future when hopefully we expect the freeware version of the
game will be made available to the public to enjoy all over again. [Less]
Posted
11 months
ago
by
nos...@scummvm.org (sev)
Help Blue compete in the backyard fair in 123 Time Activies, and find words in ABC Time Acitivies, through various activities in these games
We recently added support for Blue's 123 Time Activities and Blue's ABC Time Activities and as
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usual you're encouraged to play through the games with a daily build, report all encountered bugs to our bug tracker and submit some nice screenshots. [Less]
Posted
12 months
ago
by
nos...@scummvm.org (spookypeanut)
Henry Stauf cordially invites you to come and sample the delights of
his house in the newest game to be supported by ScummVM, The 7th
Guest. A delightful evening is guaranteed to be had by you and the
other guests.
You will
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need a copy of the game (DOS and Windows versions only, for
now), and a newly-downloaded daily build of
ScummVM. And, of course, your wits about you.
Please report any unwanted annoyances (i.e. bugs) to the ScummVM
bug tracker. If you find any particularly beautiful sights while
you're there, be sure to submit them as screenshots.
P.S. There are some slight complications involved in copying the game to
the hard drive, due to there being audio tracks on both CDs. The
information on how to get round this is on the 7th Guest wiki
page, as well as a few known issues, so be sure to read it fully. [Less]
Posted
12 months
ago
by
nos...@scummvm.org (sev)
You're a pizza delivery boy and you're in trouble. Now it is your goal to stop Dick Tate, before the whole world is filled with his evil clones!
Now you can follow this funny story with ScummVM. We recently added support for Bud Tucker in
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Double Trouble and as usual you're encouraged to playtest it with a daily build, report all encountered bugs to our bug tracker and submit some nice screenshots. [Less]
Posted
about 1 year
ago
by
nos...@scummvm.org (fingolfin)
As of today, James "Ender" Brown has left the lead team of ScummVM.
Ender joined the ScummVM team back in February 2002 and became project co-lead already one month later. The original founders of ScummVM, yazoo and strigeus, were still
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active, but soon after left ScummVM for other ventures. Ender remained as the sole project leader until March 2003, when Max "Fingolfin" Horn joined him at the steering wheel. The long time leading triumvirate of ScummVM was completed in April 2006 with the addition of Eugene "sev" Sandulenko. Together, we went through many good and bad times.
Ender worked especially hard on the PR side of things, including tons of posts in the news section of this site (we really should post news updates more frequently again!), and many behind-the-scenes negotiations with companies regarding source code releases and other things. Not to mention repeatedly crossing swords with the legal department of LucasArts.
Recently, due to personal issues, Ender has had less and less time to work on ScummVM and related things. Not wanting to harm the project by being unable to devote enough time to take care of important tasks, Ender has graciously agreed to resign his post.
The remaining project leaders, Fingolfin and Sev, would like to thank Ender for his many years of faithful leadership, and wish him all the best in his future endeavors. [Less]
