ScummVM 0.9.0 released

Written by Johann Walter — June 25, 2006 at 18:24

The ScummVM team announced today the release of version 0.9.0 of their now famous interpreter. ScummVM makes it possible to play numerous adventure classics on a variety of operating systems and platforms, including Windows, Linux, MacOS X and several consoles and hand-held devices.

This new version adds support for Westwood's The Legend of Kyrandia (with the following games in the series forthcoming) as well as The Feeble Files from Adventure Soft. This latter addition may seem especially welcome, as the version currently sold by Adventure Soft was until now only playable under Windows 95/98.

Those two new games enter an already long list of supported games, which includes all the LucasArts adventures, Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2, Beneath a Steel Sky, Broken Sword 1 and 2, Flight of the Amazon Queen, Inherit the Earth, Gobliiins and numerous children games from Humongous Entertainment.

The new version also features an improved graphic interface, as well as bug-fixing for previously supported games. Users are encouraged to read the ReadMe file for a list of known problems as well as instructions for obtaining or re-encoding video sequences for certain games.

ScummVM is free software and can be downloaded from this page. Freeware versions of Beneath a Steel Sky and Flight of the Amazon Queen can also be downloaded from there.