Thanks for the reply LordHoto! You are right; I don't know what I was doing wrong before, but the escape gesture seems to be working fine now. Any word on the function keys?

Does anyone else have success using the function keys as specified in the controls section of the iPhone port notes on the main Scummvm site? That part of the control interface doesn't seem to be working for me on an iPad 3 under iOS 6.1/Scummvm 1.5. Also, it doesn't seem that the swiping for arrow ...

I have been using ScummVM 1.5 on my iPad 3 under iOS 6.1, and so far so good, but multitasking seems to be broken. App switching results in the ScummVM app being reloaded from start when I switch back to the app. Not the most annoying thing ever (and everything else *does* seem to be working!), but ...