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Maniacs! SCUMM! I love you! 17 Jan, 2012 / 7 comments

By Kroms

ArsTechnica have published an article, entitled Maniac Tentacle Mindbenders, which discusses how "How ScummVM's unpaid coders kept adventure gaming alive" (as opposed to the paid coders, those worthless hacks).

ScummVM, as you may know, is a program that allows you to run certain old school adventure games on a variety of modern machines and consoles, from your fancy new PC to your PSP. It's a lovely piece of software (open source and released under the GPL, I might add; if you think you can contribute, go wild), and it's nice to see a full-length article talk about it. It's so nice I'm going to link you twice.

Source: ArsTechnica

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    clone2727 on 17 Jan, 2012, 15:01…

    ThunderPeel2001

    Is it worth mentioning that ResidualVM is ScummVM for 3D games like Grim Fandango? (It's amazing to me that so many people don't know about ScummVM or ResidualVM!

    There was a very slight mention wrt. yaz0r, but yes, it was shunned for no apparent reason
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    ThunderPeel2001 on 17 Jan, 2012, 14:18…
    Is it worth mentioning that ResidualVM is ScummVM for 3D games like Grim Fandango? (It's amazing to me that so many people don't know about ScummVM or ResidualVM!
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    Kroms on 17 Jan, 2012, 13:29…

    MrSneeze

    No, it's a good article (informative read, with a few gems of trivia). I'm guessing the exam affected your "dry humour detector".


    Having just woke-up from a nap after a day of exhaustion: yes. Yes, it was busted to hell. If it was any more busted it'd need a mugshot.
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    clone2727 on 17 Jan, 2012, 13:10…
    An example of my terrible photoshopping skills is now on Ars Technica... oh god...
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    MrSneeze on 17 Jan, 2012, 11:05…
    No, it's a good article (informative read, with a few gems of trivia). I'm guessing the exam affected your "dry humour detector".
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    Kroms on 17 Jan, 2012, 10:51…
    To be honest, I didn't get to read the article before I left, as I was typing from a laptop outside an exam hall ten minutes before the exam started (did terribly, thankyouverymuch). I just skimmed quickly and linked.
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    MrSneeze on 17 Jan, 2012, 10:12…
    Seriously? And here I was thinking all this time that the VM stood for [Scumm] Van Morrison. Still, I doubt that clarification deserves a whole 4-page article. ¬¬

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