Missing the actual date by a couple of days – which is almost an off-by-one-or-two error, the bane of any programmer’s life – the developers of ScummVM have released another new version of the software to almost coincide with the 25th anniversary of its first public commit (putting the latest change(s) to the code – or in this case the first actual code, I imagine, without looking to check – into the repository).
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Mark Moxon will be joining the next meeting of the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC), which will take place on Wednesday, 7th October, to take the group on a tour of the various Acornsoft games he has taken a detailed look at, and into which he has hacked new features.
Read MoreWith Avenger, the last of the Code the Classics volume 2 games converted to run on RISC OS, Jeroen Vermeulen has created a web-based home for them (as well as them being downloadable from )!Store – and, presumably, for any future projects he undertakes.
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Benefitting from a new, more frequent release cycle, another new version of ScummVM is available – version 2026.2.0!
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A new version of ScummVM is available to download. Described by the development team (which includes Cameron Cawley looking after ‘our’ version) as a maintenance release, version 2.9.1 of the software includes a host of bug fixes rather than new features, but as many of these affect the various engines supported by the software, it’s worth updating your copy to benefit from them.
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Having software to run on your RISC OS computer is all well and good – but every one knows the most important type of software of all is the type that entertains, and engages in an interactive way: Games
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The next Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) meeting will take place on Wednesday, 5th March, and the guest speaker will be Tony Bartram of AMCOG Games, with a talk that will cover a number of topics.
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Supporting some fifteen additional games, a new version of ScummVM has arrived. The software is maintained by a team of programmers across a number of platforms, with Cameron Cawley to be thanked for his work bringing each release to RISC OS.
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If you were at the recent London Show, you may have noticed some people wearing cardboard glasses with red and blue lenses – and if you investigated, you’ll have discovered that it was because AMCOG Games had a new title on sale that makes use of such glasses.
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Tony Bartram has around twenty titles in his AMCOG Games back catalogue, and is currently working on two more titles, both of which feature something new or novel for our platform, and he will be talking at the next Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) meeting, this coming Wednesday.
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