Aug 17, 2021:Įarly Macromedia Director titles are supported nowĪfter 5 years of active development, we are glad to finally announce the first MacroMind/Macromedia Director-based games to be supported. Then, load up some games and report issues in the issue tracker and playthrough progress on this forum post so we could keep track of the progress on the Wiki. In total, 12 new engines and general changes to 24 more engines.įor running the games you will need the latest stable build of ScummVM.Games like Grim Fandango, The Longest Journey and Myst III: Exile need a playthrough. 3D engines formerly part of ResidualVM.
You may support the project by expressing your excitement in the form of a donation via PayPal although we value code contributions considerably more. Our forum and Discord Server, are open for comments and suggestions. Among the systems on which you can play those games are Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, PS Vita, Switch, Dreamcast, AmigaOS, Atari/FreeMiNT, RISC OS, Haiku, PSP, PS3, Maemo, GCW Zero and many more. ScummVM is continually improving, so check back often. You can find a full list with details on which games are supported and how well on the compatibility page. Next to ground-breaking titles like the Monkey Island series, Broken Sword, Myst, Blade Runner and countless other games you will find some really obscure adventures and truly hidden gems to explore. It supports many classics published by legendary studios like LucasArts, Sierra On-Line, Revolution Software, Cyan, Inc. ScummVM supports a huge library of adventures with over 250 games in total.
The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed! ScummVM is a complete rewrite of these games' executables and is not an emulator.
I suspect part of the reason I moved more and more into software development and IT-related work was partly because the system I loved to work with was simply not capable of doing music and audio on a professional level (and still isn't, despite near-heroic efforts on the part of a few developers if the kernel can't maintain an audio stream that doesn't skip and sputter, it's impossible to ever produce great audio).Īnyway, Linux and Open Source is definitely the heir apparent to the Amiga and C64, and I know many people from those communities ended up in the Open Source world.ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical adventure and role-playing games, provided you already have their data files.
The only negatives were that the graphics and sound capabilities of Linux at the time (and still do, honestly) lagged behind Windows significantly, making it difficult to think of it as a creators system, unless what you were creating was software.
I found that nearly everything I had loved about the Amiga and C64 culture was stronger and more vibrant in the Linux and Open Source world. In 1995 I switched briefly the Windows 95, and then, already disgusted and bored by Windows, switched to Linux. They should reproduce the 4000 / Video Toaster combo: The Commodore brand could be such a cool fit, if they only had a decent product. Now that Steve Jobs' face has taken the place of Big Brother in that 1984 ad, it feels to me that the landscape needs a new "creative computing" competitor. It doesn't feel like he's going to succeed. Altman appears to have incorporated Commodore USA with the sole purpose of attaining trademark licenses and attempting to tap into the large and very latent Commodore enthusiast market.
The did a little cheapo licensing of the brand here and there but basically showed no intention of breathing life into the brand again.
But as an old Commodore / Amiga fanboy I have to admire Barry Altman (CEO of Commodore USA) for attempting to reawaken the brand.Īfter the sad bankruptcy spiral and eventual shutdown of Commodore the trademarks ended up in the possession of a company based in the Netherlands called Tulip Computers (Now Nedfield) who makes commodity PC workstations. Cramming a modern PC into a vintage C64 reproduction really is a terrible idea.