Scummvm
<div class="IPBDescription">Play all those old Lucasarts classics.</div> Well i'm probably late with this, but i thought i should post it.
It would seem that in partnership with Lucasarts, AdventureSoft, Rebellion and others an emulator for the SCUMM engine (The finest point-and-click adventure game engine ever.) is officially available for download and classic games such as Beneath A Steel Sky, Day Of the Tentacle, Sam n Max, Monkey Island 1+2 and Simon The Sorceror 1+2 (Including all their 'talkie' versions.). This has got to be the greatest thing ever, these old classics are virtually unplayable without a lot of playing around on today's technology but this cross-platform emulator does it all for you!
Yes, cross platform, i'm to understand that there's PC, Mac, Linux and Palm versions available.
The official page <a href='http://www.scummvm.org/' target='_blank'>ScummVM.org</a> is, at present, down, but you can get access to the files at the development page <a href='http://sourceforge.net/projects/scummvm/' target='_blank'>here</a>.
This is truely the happiest day of my life. I can FINALLY hear Gilbert Lamb's (Beneath A Steel Sky) thick northern accent once again!
It would seem that in partnership with Lucasarts, AdventureSoft, Rebellion and others an emulator for the SCUMM engine (The finest point-and-click adventure game engine ever.) is officially available for download and classic games such as Beneath A Steel Sky, Day Of the Tentacle, Sam n Max, Monkey Island 1+2 and Simon The Sorceror 1+2 (Including all their 'talkie' versions.). This has got to be the greatest thing ever, these old classics are virtually unplayable without a lot of playing around on today's technology but this cross-platform emulator does it all for you!
Yes, cross platform, i'm to understand that there's PC, Mac, Linux and Palm versions available.
The official page <a href='http://www.scummvm.org/' target='_blank'>ScummVM.org</a> is, at present, down, but you can get access to the files at the development page <a href='http://sourceforge.net/projects/scummvm/' target='_blank'>here</a>.
This is truely the happiest day of my life. I can FINALLY hear Gilbert Lamb's (Beneath A Steel Sky) thick northern accent once again!
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Well... Last time I tried to run Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis on my machine it worked fine (other than the lack of music). So... other than the fact that I don't need it: yay! <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
<a href='http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/' target='_blank'>DOSbox</a> - a DOS Emu, its pretty good, but kinda slow at times.
<a href='http://www.xcomufo.com/' target='_blank'>XcomUfo</a> - a remake is being made, and they have a Fix for Xcom ("gold ed" i think).
It does kinda, but the "Smash The Roadsigns" Side-Game is b0rked
Yeah - While DOT was quite great, the party hasn't started until <i>Sam and Max</i> arrive.
What about Tyrian... argh... still unsupported.
DAHM U AND UPDATE SO I CAN PLAY MY OLDIES!!!
Actually, they did several years ago...
Sam & Max
Day of the Tentacle
Indiana Jones and the Something Something
Rebel Assault
and a few more games...
anybody remember when you could go to the store and there'd be like a 7-pack of crappy Sierra games?
What about Tyrian... argh... still unsupported.
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TYRIAN! I remember Tyrian now!
Tyrian <i>is</i> the two-player-link-up-ships vertical shooter, right?
but in singleplayer it was just a normal arcade flight thingy, but it was just coolie.