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Linux SCUMM Interpreter

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the day-of-the-tentacle-baby dept.

Captain Zion writes "A portable, SDL-based SCUMM interpreter is available at sourceforge. With AGI and SCI interpreters available, do we have alternative interpreters for all major adventure systems?" I never got as hooked on the SCUMM games as the other systems, but Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle were smooth back in the day.

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  1. A similar project worth mentioning by mrAgreeable · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Is Exult, at http://exult.sourceforge.net. It's an intepreter for the Ultima 7 series of games. It's nearly perfect, and in many ways improved over the original. (Characters open doors, improved combat, higher res, antialiasing, etc)

    The copy protection is worth mentioning in those games. It wasn't built into the .exe so much as it was built into the game's scripting system, so to accurately port the game they had to port the copy protection. I actually had to go cosult the original docs to get past the copy protection. Which seemed crazy since the game was written for a different OS 12 or so years ago.

    You'll need the original data files to play it, of course, which I'm sure is the same with scummvm.

  2. ScummVM patent issues by strigeus · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hello!

    I'm the author of ScummVM.

    I've support for iMuse (which is the music engine used in some SCUMM games) almost finished, but since iMuse is patented by LucasArts, I'm worried about releasing it because of possible patent infringements.

    Does anyone know anything about this, and if it's safe for me to release this source code?

    I do live in Sweden in Europe, and as far as I know, Europe is not covered by us patent laws.

    Regards,
    Ludvig Strigeus