ScummVM. Do you hear it? Do you smell a new version? It´s now here. And as usual and regularly, it is packed with tons of new features. Hold on, and take a look at the list:
* Support for the FREEWARE adventure Lure of the Temptress (available for download here)
* Seven other new supported games: I Have no Mouth, and I Must Scream, Elvira 1 and 2, Waxworks (
Amiga version only) and 3 Sierra pre-AGI games for children
* Two newly available ports: iPhone and Maemo
* Support for the Mac version of The Legend of Kyrandia and the
Amiga version of Nippon Safes
* Better support for Sierra AGI games
* Improved support for modern 64-bit systems
* Support for FLAC encoded music in Broken Sword 1 for the purists among you
* Better support for non-English versions of games, including eastern languages
* Sound compression for SAGA games
* Much much more. See the release notes for the full list
Unfortunately,
PlayStation 2 and GP32 ports will not be released with this version, since we don´t have any maintainers for these ports currently.
Full Changelist:
0.11.0 (2008-01-15)
New Games:
- Added support for Elvira: Mistress of the Dark.
- Added support for Elvira 2: The Jaws of Cerberus.
- Added support for I Have no Mouth, and I Must Scream (demo and full game).
- Added support for preAGI game Mickey´s Space Adventure.
- Added support for preAGI game Troll´s Tale.
- Added support for preAGI game Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood.
- Added support for
Amiga version of Waxworks.
- Added support for Lure of the Temptress.
New Ports:
- Added iPhone port.
- Added Maemo port for Nokia Internet tablets.
General:
- Added ARM assembly routines for code in the sound mixer and SCUMM
video playback, resulting in some nice speedups on several ports.
- Improved the way keyboard input is handled internally, resolving
some odd quirks in some game / port combinations.
- Added optional ´confirm exit´ dialog to the
SDL backend.
- Added support for TiMidity++
MIDI server.
- Added DMedia
MIDI driver for IRIX.
- Improved detection of new game variants and localized versions.
- Completely reworked internal access to files. (GSoC Task)
- Added option to delete games from the list with Del key.
- Added support for "~/" prefix being substituted by $HOME in paths
on POSIX systems (Linux, Mac OS X etc.).
AGI:
- Added support for AGI256 and AGI256-2 hacks (GSoC Task)
- Added support for
Amiga menus and palettes (GSoC Task)
- Better support for early Sierra AGI titles
AGOS:
- Fixed crashes related to OmniTV playback in The Feeble Files.
- Improved work on 64-bit systems.
Broken Sword 1:
- Added support for FLAC encoded music.
Kyrandia:
- Added support for Macintosh version.
Parallaction:
- Added support for
Amiga version of Nippon Safes, Inc.
- Many bugfixes
Queen:
- Added support for Adlib music.
- Added missing music patterns playback in
Amiga version.
SCUMM:
- Added subtitle skipping (via ´.´ key) in older games which didn´t have
this feature so far (e.g. Zak, MM, Indy3, Loom).
- Added support for Chinese COMI.
- Better support for eastern versions of games.
- Various fixes for COMI and other games.
- Added support for original save menus (browse only). Use Alt-F5 to
activate.
- Added support for Spanish version of
NES Maniac Mansion.
- Better support for German version of C64 Maniac Mansion.
- Fixed bug with cursors in Windows versions of Humongous Entertainment
games.
SAGA:
- Added support for compressed sound effects, voices and music.
Touche:
- Added workarounds for some glitches/issues present in the original game.
WinCE Port:
- Switched compilers again. Now using cegcc (http://cegcc.sourceforge.net/).
- Plugins now supported for WinCE (but not used in this release).
- Redesigned ´Free Look´ action, mainly for the lure engine´s requirements.
- Smaller optimization setting to counteract the growth of the executable.
- Various bug fixes.
GP2X Port:
- Support F200 Touchscreen
- Various fixes to input code