The International House of Mojo

The goodness that is ScummVM has been updated once again! In addition to its support for countless classic LucasArts adventures including Curse of Monkey Island they've added some stuff to the new version:

• Extensive overhaul of the music subsystem, more games now support music
• Support for the Enhanced (V2) versions of Maniac Mansion and Zak McKracken
• Support for Beneath a Steel Sky, made possible thanks to Revolution Software supplying the team with the original assembly source code!
• Aspect Ratio correction added, by popular request (similar to the aspect correction found in the LucasArts Entertainment Pack)

Perhaps the coolest part of the announcement is that along with the new 0.5.0 release, Revolution has allowed the ScummVM team to release the classic adventure Beneath a Steel Sky as freeware! Maybe some other companies could learn from this example. Download ScummVM and Beneath a Steel Sky here!

And of course, users of ScummVM Quick & Easy will be pleased to hear that benny has just put out an 0.5.0 compatible version. Finally, if you haven't read our LucasArts Editors Day coverage, you're missing out big time.