CABAL (Coalesced 'Adventures beyond Architecture' League) finally came alive, and now for real. Yes, truly, it took us just 6.5 years, and today we are eagerly announcing that a universal adventure game interpreter, playing SCUMM, AGI, and SCI games has been released.

From now on, it is available on ScummVM's downloads page (Look for version 1.2.0). You may jump straight there, or stay a bit longer and see what cool new features are included.

As you have probably already realized, this release has support for SCI, and moreover, the list of compatible games goes beyond the original FreeSCI which was merged about 1.5 years ago. We support Conquests of Camelot/the Longbow, Castle/Island of Dr. Brain, Codename: ICEMAN, EcoQuest 1&2, all four Hoyle games, Freddy Pharkas, Jones in the Fast Lane, King's Quest I-VI, both Laura Bow games, Larry up to 6 (low-res 6 only), Police Quest 1-3, Quest for Glory I-III, Space Quest up to V and a few others. Incredible work by the FreeSCI team and our own SCI engine team!

Early SCI 16-color games can be optionally undithered by ScummVM, making them look much better. To see a comparison between undithered graphics and the original, watch this video produced by one of our SCI engine developers and see for yourself.

Besides SCI, we have added support for yet another Coktel Vision game called Fascination and we have a number of new ports: Android, Dingux, Caanoo and OpenPandora. Unfortunately we had to declare the PalmOS port officially dead.

As usual there are tons of engine-specific bug fixes. Take a look at the release notes if you want to know more. But wait! We would like to tell a little bit about
another long-awaited feature new in this release. After all these years we are finally going international, and the ScummVM GUI can be translated into any language (well, almost any). Right now we have Catalan, English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish and Ukrainian localizations. Besides this there are a lot of smaller improvements like tooltips, radio buttons, improved usability and we support more games running from original media without the need to shuffle the game files.

Enough talking! Now it is time to download ScummVM and start playing!

Last edited by sev on Mon Dec 20, 2010 12:23 pm; edited 1 time in total

   

Of the 4 newly added ports, I only see downloads for OpenPandora and Dingux. Is the Android port not ready for download yet?

   

Both of those to the team for another new releaae.
My hat is off to you!

Cheers,
René

   

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Originally posted by sev
we have a number of new ports: Android

Enough talking! Now it is time to download ScummVM and start playing!

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Thank you very much for this milestone release!
Kudos to all team members!

   

Where is the Caanoo release?

I can only find Wiz and GP2x.

   

Congratulations, awesome ScummVM developers!

Major kudos all around, particularly to the SCI team, for enduring the long and rigorous testing cycle.

One thing you might want to note though is that Nippon Safes Inc is still apparently impossible to completely finish (Doug's part at least).

   

Hello there,
I've tried Laura Bow CD version and I've set the audio to both speech and text mode in the scummvm menu (in the 'edit game' menu) but it doesn't work correctly. There is only speech or only text.
In the game there isn't this speech and text in same time option, either.
The 'F5' menu isn't the usual.

The scummvm detects the Zak McKracken V2 spanish version to english.

   

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Originally posted by slx
Hello there,
I've tried Laura Bow CD version and I've set the audio to both speech and text mode in the scummvm menu (in the 'edit game' menu) but it doesn't work correctly. There is only speech or only text.
In the game there isn't this speech and text in same time option, either.

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Originally posted by SiENcE
Where is the Caanoo release?

I can only find Wiz and GP2x.

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I've just recently purchased a copy of fascination for dos 9floppy) via eBay. I copied the files from each disk to a central directory, then launched dosbox and ran the install to unpack the files. When I point scummvm at the directory it states that there is no game found, and the console says "illegal version detected".

Did I just buy copied disks? They look original, but who knows.... I paid way too much to find out I was duped.

   

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Originally posted by DJWillis

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Originally posted by SiENcE
Where is the Caanoo release?

I can only find Wiz and GP2x.

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Sorry, it should be up in a few days, had a few personal things that cropped up to eat my time over the last week and I had only got the OpenPandora, GP2X and Wiz ports done and ready in time for the release. Sorry again, I'll get it sorted as soon as I can.

John

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Hi scoriae,

I'm very, very surprised... Could you tell me if the game was provided with a protection sheet? Was it a low-price edition, or a standard one? Any information is welcome...

Regards,
Strangerke

   

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Originally posted by m_kiewitz
That's right. The game actually does not support text and speech at the same time. Maybe we will patch such games somehow later, so that they will support it.

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Nice!

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Originally posted by sev
Early SCI 16-color games can be optionally undithered by ScummVM, making them look much better.

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