I have an Amazon Fire TV, bought it about two weeks ago. Have no interest in it's function as a Prime streaming device, bought it as a replacement for my six year old HTPC to run SPMC and for the other bits like YouTube. It's hooked up to a powered 4-port Belkin USB hub so I can have a FLIRC dongle, Xbox 360 wired gamepad, Logitech wireless mouse/keyboard set and external USB2 HDD connected at once.
I am happy to report that side loading ScummVM onto it produces workable results. It's running the latest firmware so games can be imported to ScummVM from a FAT32 formatted external USB drive, handy because the Fire TV has limited internal space and games like Curse Of Monkey Island are well over 1GB.
There are a few issues:
- After the loading bar you get presented with a black screen. I've been getting round it by pressing escape on the keyboard a few times which gives you the standard load/add game screen which works fine.
- The app appears to underscan so there's a black box around everything which presumably can't be changed.
- Pressing F5 on the keyboard in game doesn't do anything. I've been getting round this by using the MENU button on the remote so I can get the load/save menu.
- The Xbox 360 pad does work, but not well. Using the analogue stick fully pushed in one direction is jerky and you can't long hold the A button to select things on the COMI piece o' eight verb wheel. But playing point and click stuff with a pad isn't great at the best of times anyway!