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ScummVM, Update With a Bang (kingofgng.com)

Posted by timothy on from the less-villainy-more-scumm dept.

KingofGnG writes: The developers of ScummVM have announced a new version for the virtual machine preferred by graphic adventure fans: also known as "Lost with Sherlock," ScummVM 1.8.0 is hailed as one of the heftiest releases ever prepared by the team, with the addition of many games and game engines, the substantial update of graphics and sound sub-systems and the availability of new conversions for minor platforms.

37 comments

  1. Outdated by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    No Support For SDL2. Dont Use SDL1 Software

    1. Re:Outdated by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If it isn't fixen, don't broke it!

  2. So? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Does that matter? It's not like they are hiding it.

  3. New Games by wisnoskij · · Score: 0

    Does anyone know why Scumm adds so many brand new games to ScummVM? What is the point?

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    1. Re:New Games by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      to play them dipshit

    2. Re:New Games by Gadget_Guy · · Score: 4, Informative

      Does anyone know why Scumm adds so many brand new games to ScummVM? What is the point?

      I suggest you have a look at the ScummVM download page and look at how many different platforms to which it has been ported. If you run Windows then there might not be any real advantage, but if, for example, you want to play a recent release on iOS, Android, Playstation 3, OS/2 or Amiga then this is just the thing for you.

    3. Re:New Games by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah but they could have added support for things like SCI32 first.

    4. Re:New Games by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ... but if, for example, you want to play a recent release on iOS, Android, Playstation 3, OS/2 or Amiga then this is just the thing for you.

      Too bad that there is no 1.8 Android release on the download page.

    5. Re:New Games by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Geez is it hard to use Google these days? https://www.google.com/search?...

    6. Re:New Games by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Never mind that, does anyone know what ScummVM even is?

      I don't think you belong here. Perhaps Facebook, Twitter or TMZ is more appropriate for your kind.

  4. Next release likely to include Myst and Riven? by jensend · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's rather different from the kinds of adventures one usually thinks of for ScummVM, but some years ago a lot of work was done on the Mohawk engine, variations of which run Myst and Riven. Things stalled without it being promoted to testing, so it didn't get exposure and testing and attract new developers. But recently a lot of additional work has been done and it looks like this may finally see some light in the next release! See recent work here.

    For Myst, one can choose between a number of rereleases, but not so for Riven, and the original and versions on Steam have some buggy behaviors on new operating systems. With a scummvm engine one could hope any issues would eventually be fixed, while Cyan doesn't have much incentive to fix their own old stuff.

    (It really is too bad Cyan didn't do a 1440x1080 rerender / "HD remaster" of Riven. Yeah, it'd have to be 4/3 since they can't redo all their shots, but if they have the art assets it would be a big boon to have an edition with over 2x the vertical resolution.)

    1. Re:Next release likely to include Myst and Riven? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      An HD remaster of Riven could be done just like it was for Myst (realMyst and realMyst: Masterpiece Edition) with realtime graphics that look better than the original prerenders. Let's face it, nothing in Riven looks all that detailed and recreating the world and models would be very easy.

    2. Re:Next release likely to include Myst and Riven? by dmbrun · · Score: 1

      Interesting.

      I thought ResidualVM was meant to be handling Myst rather than ScummVM.

    3. Re:Next release likely to include Myst and Riven? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Too bad the gameplay for Riven sucked so bad. The balance of pretty graphics and slightly confusing, but soluble, gameplay for Myst was fun. But simply tripling the mapsize and making the play less linear and the puzzles involving so much running to one map, running to another far away map, etc. just made Riven tedious. So there was a reason people didn't spend much work remastering it.

    4. Re:Next release likely to include Myst and Riven? by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 0

      Myst? That was the "game" that was all graphics, no substance. How is anyone going to be impressed with that today?

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    5. Re:Next release likely to include Myst and Riven? by BorisSkratchunkov · · Score: 1

      (It really is too bad Cyan didn't do a 1440x1080 rerender / "HD remaster" of Riven. Yeah, it'd have to be 4/3 since they can't redo all their shots, but if they have the art assets it would be a big boon to have an edition with over 2x the vertical resolution.)

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    6. Re:Next release likely to include Myst and Riven? by jensend · · Score: 1

      Residual is trying to do Myst III. The 2d+videos interface and engine of Myst and Riven is probably more of a natural fit for the main ScummVM than are the engines ResidualVM is trying to support.

    7. Re:Next release likely to include Myst and Riven? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I always though of Myst and Riven as the poor man's 7th Guest.

  5. Re:KingofGNG by guises · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am amused that you would say this with a sig advertising your availability for hire.

  6. Re:KingofGNG by Khyber · · Score: 1, Funny

    The fucking hypocrisy of you saying that while your own sig fucking self-promotes is a mother fucking laugh.

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  7. There's a new Myst Game "Obduction" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    The makers of Myst are doing a new game, not yet another Myst version, a new game:

    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cyaninc/obduction

    So perhaps its better not to get so stuck in playing the same games over and over again.

    1. Re:There's a new Myst Game "Obduction" by jensend · · Score: 1

      I'm signed up for the Obduction kickstarter, though after the way Uru and Myst V went my expectations for it aren't all that high. I hope to be pleasantly surprised.

      But though I have fond memories of it, I haven't played Riven in what, 18 years? (except for trying the steam version out to see whether it worked well. it didn't). And there are generations of gamers that have never played it.

      And if you think playing old games is stupid, why are you bothering to comment on a scummvm article in the first place?

  8. the ten new games by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    ScummVM 1.8 adds support for ten new games using eight brand new game engines:

            Amazon: Guardians of Eden
            Beavis and Butthead in Virtual Stupidity
            Broken Sword 2.5: The Return of the Templars
            Labyrinth of Time
            Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender
            Sfinx
            The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Rose Tattoo
            The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Serrated Scalpel
            Zork: Grand Inquisitor
            Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands

  9. whooo hooo by maestroX · · Score: 2

    2 guys from andromeda

  10. Whew! by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · · Score: 2

    > ScummVM

    For a second I thought it said scrum vm, and I started getting angry.

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    1. Re:Whew! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Now, stand up and tell me in few phrases what you are doing, when it will be ready and why do you seem angry all the time :)

    2. Re:Whew! by BarbaraHudson · · Score: 1

      Well, I sas "With a Bang" in the title and said to myself "Oh, no, not THAT guy again."

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  11. Re:fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Discuss.

    You're an idiot. What else to discuss?

  12. Sweet, Rex Nebular is now supported by Lisandro · · Score: 1

    I have fond memories of playing that game when i was a kid.

  13. Re:fp by U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M · · Score: 1

    Hello Mr. Ballmer.

  14. Re:fp by Pseudonymous+Powers · · Score: 2

    Linux is a cancer.

    Rhythm is a dancer.

  15. Re:KingofGNG by John+Bokma · · Score: 1

    https://slashdot.org/prefs.pl -> Discussions -> Disable Sigs. You're welcome.

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