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ScummVM 1.5.0 'Picnic Basket' Released
YokimaSun writes "Fans of classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, will be happy to learn that a new version of ScummVM has been released with support for new games such as 'Once Upon A Time: Little Red Riding Hood,' 'Backyard Baseball 2003,' 'Blue Force,' 'Darby the Dragon,' 'Dreamweb,' 'Geisha,' 'Gregory and the Hot Air Balloon,' 'Magic Tales: Liam Finds a Story,' and more. ScummVM not only supports Windows, Linux and new platforms such as iPhone and Android but also consoles such as Dreamcast, Gamecube and Nintendo 64 and rarer handhelds such as Openpandora and Dingoo."
What a dick.
I really don't understand why it's so beloved. It basically had not a single interesting game, had the worst controller since... can't remember when... and had a Microsoft OS that powered it.
It did nothing well. It was terrible. It had/has nothing going for it. Why do people praise that turd?
Modded back up because the first coward has been posting in other threads too trying to get people to link to an image of gay pron. Maybe off topic but it is good to warn people about this loser.
http://aminet.net/search?query=scummvm&sort=date&ord=DESC
The version on AmiNet is a little aged. While the site lists an official Amiga release for OS4, NovaCoder has been releasing for 68k Amigas and we should support his efforts. As well, there's a on official MorphOS port http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/MorphOS
Pretty neat stuff.
Version numbers don't need shitty nicknames to go alongside them.
I'm so sick of this bullshit. You end up with a bunch of morans running around crying about various cats and desserts and fruits, but no one can be assed to post a proper fucking change log any more.
I used to yell at lusers when they didn't RTFM.
Then I yelled at developers because they didn't WTFM.
Now I yell into the abyss as all of you fucking dipshits gallivant around naked, singing the praises of a fucking number for the number's sake.
I've foreseen my own death, and it will be at the moment when Firefox's version number catches up to my age in years. At the rate you wunderklowns are going I've only got a few years left.
I've had ScummVM running on my dads GPS. Gotta love monkey island when on a road trip.
In case you just want to try out the game engine, the download page has links to some freeware games and demos, including Beneath a Steel Sky and Flight of the Amazon Queen. Both are relatively large, fully playable games. Both games date from the mid-90s, so "large" is relative here to floppy disks rather than number of DVDs needed to pirate the game.
...requires the iPhone to be jailbroken, of course.
Saw an update for my phone was available, which is pretty rare nowadays. My thanks to the maintainers for not forgetting this fantastic pocket computer that also makes phone calls. Damn you Elop!!!
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
I still want Space Quest and Maniac Mansion on my iPad. Maybe Zak McKracken!
A little known fact about ScummVM is that the official builds do not include all the engines that are currently in development. Makes sense of course that you'd only include engines and support for particular games once they're up to a sufficient level of quality, but there are in fact a number of engines (and hence games) which, although still in development, are mature enough to play all the way through if you use a nightly build from here:
http://buildbot.scummvm.org/builds.html
These builds contain all engines in whatever state they exist, and I like using them because unlike the official builds, these builds allow me to run Myst - Masterpiece Edition, Riven and Gabriel Knight 1 all the way through in each without too many issues (Myst's a bit unstable at times though, but it's random and a reload fixes things). The developers are quite fast at fixing issues though I have to say, so if you don't mind living on the edge you can play even more of the popular classics.
Most people on Slashdot are fucking idiots.
The Windows CE environment was one possibility, but the console itself didn't use Windows at all. If you hate it because it could run Microsoft software, you're a fool.
If you still can't understand why it's so beloved, recall that it came out at the tail end of the PS1 era, more than a full year before there was a single Gamecube, PlayStation 2, or Xbox in North America. It had online connectivity, a usable web browser, support for 4 controllers without a breakout box, more available storage than standard CD formats, and far better graphics capability that could be deivered with progressive VGA (the best video resolution you could get at the time) output, and innovative memory storage cards. The launch lineup was actually good, and showed that Madden and EA weren't the only viable franchise, at least in terms of quality, and the launch day port of Soul Calibur was widely hailed as better playing, deeper, and better looking than its arcade counterpart. Sega's own studios cranked out titles that were consistently unique and fun.
And it did it for $200 at launch.
I wouldn't have even known about the troll's post if the first reply hadn't been modded up. Shouldn't warnings only be modded to equal or just above the score of the troll, i.e. 0? (someone mod me down please ;) )
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
If you like old school type games such as Monkey Island, be sure to check stuff from Wadjet Eye Games.
how about cutting access to writing comments from AC. that should fix the problem once and for all. You'd get less crap like this.