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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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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The penultimate day of 2023 saw another release of ScummVM, which includes a RISC OS version thanks to the efforts of Cameron Cawley. The software is now at version 2.8.0, and the latest version brings with it a number of new engines, enhancements to old ones – and of course, a whole raft of newly supported games.
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A new version of ScummVM is out now, and brings with it new engines, and therefore even more games. The software is a ‘virtual machine’ designed originally to allow games developed with a specific system to be playable on modern computer system, but has gone on to support many more.
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If you like adventures of the ‘point and click’ variety, you’ll no doubt be aware – and hopefully using – ScummVM to play the wealth of old games it brings to the platform, most of which never touched RISC OS when they were first released for other computers and operating systems.
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The team behind ScummVM – which includes Cameron Cawley maintaining the RISC OS port – has pushed out another new version, adding support for a further nine classic games across six engines.
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New year update for ScummVM The ScummVM team have released a small new year present for gaming fans, in the form of version 2.5.1 – a bugfix release, codenamed Californium because of the element’s average atomic mass – with, as ever, Cameron Cawley maintaining the RISC OS port of the system.
Read MoreA new version of ScummVM was released on 9th October – a significant date for the project, because it was on 9th October, 2001 that saw the very first revision – 0.0.1 – appear from the keyboard of Ludvig Strigeus. The latest release is 2.5.0.
Read MoreAnd support for a colossal game, too. Well, one with colossal in its name! With some superb work from its developers, and in particular Cameron Cawley for his work on the RISC OS port, a new version of ScummVM has been released, and it makes a huge number of old games playable on modern hardware.
Read MoreWhile RISC OS may now be regarded as a small, niche operating system, with only a tiny fraction of the number of users that more mainstream platforms attract, it does still have a surprisingly vibrant community – so with that in mind, every once in a while I look through a selection of news groups, mailing lists, and forums, looking for announcements that haven’t found their way to me via the RISCOSitory news inbox, and from those compile a ‘snippets’ post. Here, then, is the latest selection of news items…
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