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Sam & Max, Back From the Dead
simoniker writes "As you may have heard, Steve Purcell's beloved Sam & Max franchise is finally returning, thanks to TellTale Games. The new episodic PC game's designer Dave Grossman has been expounding on the new game, suggesting that having a fanboy niche is actually good: 'We work small enough that we don't need to have the license that's the biggest movie of the year... if we just have kind of a small devoted fanbase, we can make something that's kind of personal and fun.' The TellTale biz guys also comment on development team size. 'Actually it's about seven core people, and then the team grows to about fourteen for a couple months, but the production cycles are short, the teams aren't huge, our tools are very tailored to be efficient.' Maybe Sam & Max is finally getting done because it's been scaled correctly for its audience?"
You don't need a Windows machine, per se- all you need is a ScummVM interpreter. You can find them for various platforms (such as Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Dreamcast, PocketPC, PalmOS, AmigaOS, BeOS, OS/2, PSP, PS2, SymbianOS/EPOC) here. Avoid windows and enjoy.
that would be http://www.scummvm.org
A relevant link here is ScummVM, an OSS project to make these games compatible with all modern systems. If you own the original disks, you can use ScummVM to play Sam & Max natively on Linux, Mac OS X, even your PDA.