I don't have any opinion on the request, but Sierra was probably trying to
reduce their reliance on the Space Quest trademark, after it turned out they
had to license permission to use it from another party.

I know there have been all kinds of differences based on various factors, but has it ever been observed that a Sierra game contained differences in the same box between the 5.25" 360k media and the 3.5" 720k media? Long ago, I remember thinking some of the player piano or victrola songs we...

As a test, have you tried moving the ROMs into the ScummVM executable program directory?

For example: C:\Program Files (x86)\ScummVM\

Tested, it worked.

The story behind this bug would be interesting to hear. It was shipped, never discovered, never patched?

I was only testing Win32 and PPC Mac, and only PPC Mac was hanging. I was hoping the problem would be something like what you found.. I always read that nothing finds bugs like building for alternate endianness. :) I'll keep watch for a test build, but I am happy that it will be fixed for hypothetic...

I saw that 1.8.1 fixed the broken end-game of KQ5 FR, so I tried the win32 build with a previous savegame just prior, and it worked. Hooray! Later, I saw that 1.8.1 was built a month later for PPC Mac (1.8.0 never was). Hooray again! But in trying two different savegame sets, prior to the endgame(bu...