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Originally posted by SomeDude

Are you sure about that? Can you explain why not? Does ScummVM "controls" the savefile? That means I can't play my whole collection of adventures, as I played them back then on MS MN? Then I think ScummVM is not what I have looking for.

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Mainly because it's usually not a priority to handle savegames made by the original executable. It's far more important that ScummVM can read its own savegames, preferably regardless of which operating system it was run on or which version of ScummVM it was.

When people say "ScummVM isn't an emulator", what they usually mean is that ScummVM replaces the original executable. It behaves close enough to the original that it can play the game from the original data files, while an emulator would usually behave close enough to the original hardware that it can run the original executable.

I don't know if that answers your question whether ScummVM controls the savefile.

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Originally posted by SomeDude

Does it mean I need to repair my old computer in my cellar, which stands there for years, to play a few adventures? Are there any alternatives for ScummVM? Can I "repair" the files? Can you fix the error somehow?

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ScummVM should be able to read any savegame it has made itself [*] so I don't see why you wouldn't be able to play your adventure games, provided that they are among the ones ScummVM supports. As for alternatives, DOSBox is pretty highly regarded when it comes to running DOS programs. Incidentally, Broken Sword 1 was released for DOS so you may be able to use DOSBox to run that. But I don't think the DOS version was included with every release of the game, and I don't know if savegames from the Windows version work with the DOS version.

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Originally posted by SomeDude
I already know DOS, but, as I explained above, I can't run it as DOS doesn't support games which runs in NT windows. I think I have the Windows version I start from the beginning Life is hard

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Originally posted by Collector

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Originally posted by SomeDude
I already know DOS, but, as I explained above, I can't run it as DOS doesn't support games which runs in NT windows. I think I have the Windows version I start from the beginning Life is hard

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Not the NTVDM, but DOSBox, a cross platform DOS PC emulator.

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