ScummVM

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ScummVM is a multi-platform stack-based virtual machine which allows one to play LucasArts adventure games which use the SCUMM system on platforms other than those where versions were originally released. It also supports a variety of non-SCUMM games. ScummVM is free software, released under the terms of the GNU GPL. It was originally written by Ludvig Strigeus. See history of ScummVM on ScummVM Wiki.

1 Platforms officially supported by ScummVM
2 Platforms supported by unofficial ScummVM ports
3 Games supported by ScummVM
4 Getting the games
5 See also
6 External links

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Platforms officially supported by ScummVM

Portability being a design goal, ports of ScummVM are available for:

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Platforms supported by unofficial ScummVM ports

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Games supported by ScummVM

Not all games are completable or even playable. Some of them are work in progress. For a complete, up-to-date list, see the official ScummVM compatibility chart.

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LucasArts SCUMM games

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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:

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Possible future games

The following games have been added to ScummVM's Subversion tree. [1] However, the engines may be in various states of operation and are not guaranteed to ever be finished. The ScummVM Team has stated that they will not respond to questions about unfinished engines.

Another World was integrated for a short period of time and then removed after that project was officially closed by its author.

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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 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 very much the same way.

Unfortunately the cut scenes from Broken Sword 1 and 2 do not work "out of the box". This is due to their cut scenes being encoded in the Smacker 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-engineer it. Revolution Software however, has allowed the re-encoding of these cut scenes to be downloaded for free from the ScummVM website.

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