Gisteren is versie 0.12.0 van ScummVM uitgekomen. Dit programma is een crossplatform interpreter voor een aantal point-and-click adventure-engines, met name de spellen die met de Scumm-engine van Lucasarts zijn gemaakt. Op die manier is het mogelijk om klassiekers zoals Simon the Sorcerer, Beneath A Steel Sky, Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle en Sam and Max te spelen op bijvoorbeeld Windows, maar ook op de PSP, AmigaOS 4, Dreamcast, Pocketpc, PalmOS, BeOS, diverse mobiele apparaten die op Symbian draaien en zelfs de iPhone. In deze release is onder ondersteuning voor vijf nieuwe spellen toegevoegd en draait ScummVM nu ook op de GameCube en Wii. Het volledige changelog van deze release ziet er als volgt uit:
New Games:General:
- Added support for The Legend of Kyrandia: Book Two: Hand of Fate.
- Added support for The Legend of Kyrandia: Book Three: Malcolm's Revenge.
- Added support for Lost in Time.
- Added support for The Bizarre Adventures of Woodruff and the Schnibble.
- Added support for the PC version of Waxworks.
- Added support for the Macintosh version of I Have no Mouth, and I must Scream.
- Added support for Drascula: The Vampire Strikes Back.
AGOS:
- Added CAMD MIDI driver for AmigaOS4.
- Revived the PS2 port (was already in 0.11.1 but was forgotten in the release notes).
- Plugged numerous memory leaks in all engines (part of GSoC'08 task),
- Added audio double buffering to the SDL backend, which fixes the problems with the MT-32 emulator on Mac OS X (for now only enabled on Mac OS X).
Queen:
- Fixed crashes during certain music in Amiga versions of Elvira 1 and Simon the Sorcerer 1.
- Fixed palette issues in Amiga versions of Simon the Sorcerer 1.
SCUMM:
- Speech is played at the correct sample rate. (It used to be pitched a bit too low.)
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- Rewrote parts of Digital iMUSE, fixing some bugs.
- Rewrote the internal timer code, fixing some speed issues in e.g. COMI.
- Improved support for sound effects in Amiga version of Zak McKracken.
- Added support for mixed Adlib/MIDI mode in Monkey Island 1 (Floppy).
The Legend of Kyrandia: Book Two: Hand of Fate.
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