ScummVM

ScummVM is a multi-platform stack-based virtual machine which allows one to play LucasArts adventure games which use the SCUMM system on system platform other than those where versions were originally released; furthermore, it supports a variety of non-SCUMM games, for example the first two Broken Sword -games by Revolution Software. ScummVM is free software, released under the terms of the GNU GPL.

=Platforms supported by ScummVM=

Portability being a design goal, ports of ScummVM are available for *BeOS *Sega Dreamcast *Linux *Mac OS X *MorphOS *Nintendo DS *Palm OS *PlayStation 2 *PlayStation Portable *Nokia Series 60 *Solaris Operating Environment *Windows CE *Microsoft Windows

= Games supported by ScummVM =

For a complete, up-to-date list, see [http://www.scummvm.org/compatibility.php the official ScummVM compatibility chart].

== SCUMM games ==

Maniac Mansion

Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders

LOOM

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

Day of the Tentacle

Sam & Max Hit the Road

Full Throttle

The Dig

== Games by other developers ==

Various games by Humongous Entertainment use the SCUMM engine, and are therefore playable with ScummVM. ScummVM also supports the following non-SCUMM -games:

Beneath a Steel Sky

*Broken Sword

Flight of the Amazon Queen

Gobliiins

Inherit the Earth

*Simon the Sorcerer series

= Getting the games =

Due to copyright restrictions, ScummVM does not include the game data, so users have to own copies of the games. The age of the original releases means that many of them are available in relatively cheap compilations, such as the LucasArts Classics collection.

During the development cycle leading up to the 0.5.0 release on August 2 2003, game manufacturer Revolution Software not only helped ScummVM developers add support for their adventure Beneath a Steel Sky by supplying them with the original source code, but also decided to release both the CD and the floppy disk version of the game as free software, available for download on the ScummVM website. A few months later, the owners of Flight of the Amazon Queen made it free software in the same way.

Unfortunately the cut scenes from Broken Sword 1 and 2 do not work out of the box . This is due to these cut scenes being encoded in the Smacker video format, which requires specialised software to be decoded. RAD Game Tools is unwilling to open up the older versions of the Smacker video format and has asked the ScummVM team to not Reverse engineering it. Revolution Software however, has allowed the re-encoding of these cut scenes to be downloaded for free from the ScummVM website.

= Other game engine recreations =

various Doom source port for Doom

Exult for Ultima VII

FreeCNC for Command & Conquer

Freecraft and Stratagus for Warcraft II

GemRB for BioWare s Infinity Engine used in various Computer role-playing games

Pentagram (game engine) for Ultima VIII

Sarien and FreeSCI for Sierra Entertainment adventure games

Tenebrae (software) for Quake

various Z-machine interpreters for Infocom text adventure games

= External links =

[http://www.scummvm.org ScummVM homepage]

[http://capers.free.fr/ScummVM ScummVM for PalmOS homepage]

[http://scummvm.drunkencoders.com/ ScummVM for Nintendo DS homepage]

[http://www.scummvm.org/compatibility.php Compatibility List]

[http://quick.mixnmojo.com/ Quick and Easy] or how to run LucasArts adventure games in windows XP, 2000 and NT with no problem at all.

[http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0200586/videogames/steelsky/ Beneath a Steel Sky Windows Installer] installs Beneath a Steel Sky and ScummVM, creates icons and uninstaller.

[http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0200586/videogames/fotaq/ Flight of the Amazon Queen Windows Installer] installs Flight of the Amazon Queen and ScummVM, creates icons and uninstaller.