Download ScummVM 0.8.0

The long awaited version 0.8.0 of ScummVM has just been released. This program is a cross-platform interpreter for a number of point-and-click adventure engines, especially those made with the LucasArts SCUMM engine. In this way it is possible to play classics, such as Simon the Sorcerer, Beneath A Steel Sky, Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle and Sam and Max, for example on Windows, but also on the PSP, AmigaOS 4, Dreamcast, PocketPC, PalmOS , BeOS, and various mobile devices running on Symbian. The changelog of this release looks like this:

New Games:

• Added SAGA engine (for the games “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” and “Inherit the Earth”).
• Added Gob engine (for the Goblins series). Currently, only the first of the Goblins games is supported.

New Ports:

• Added PlayStation 2 port.
• Added PlayStation Portable (PSP) port.
• Added Amiga OS 4 port.
• Added EPOC/SymbianOS port.
• Added fixes for OS/2 port.

General:

• Reworked cursor handling in SDL backend. Now cursors can have their own palette and scaling. This is used by Humongous Entertainment games now.
• Added FluidSynth MIDI driver.
• Added GUI for the “soundfont” setting. (Currently only used by the CoreAudio and FluidSynth MIDI drivers.)
• The MPEG player could hang if the sound ended prematurely.
• Improved autoscaling GUI, which takes full advantage of your screen.
• Fixes for GCC 4.

SCUMM:

• Added support for Mac Humongous Entertainment titles.
• Added support for multiple filenames/versions using a single target.
• Implemented CGA and Hercules render modes in early LEC titles.
• Added dialogs which are shown when you modify the talkspeed or music volume using hotkeys.
• Added support for NES version of Maniac Mansion.
• Added thumbnail support for save games.
• Broke compatibility with HE savegame (HE v71 and upwards only).
• Added possibility to disable building of HE and SCUMM v7 & v8 games support.
• Fixed the last few known music glitches in Sam & Max. (There are still some – probably – minor missing features though.)
• Added support for Commodore64 version of Zak McKracken
• Eliminated all demos targets and platform-specific targets. Config file is auto-updated.

Sword2:

• Made the resource manager expire resources more intelligently.
• Improved performance when playing the game from CD instead of hard disk.
• Simplified sound effects handling. Again.
• Code cleanups and restructuring.
• Fixed long-standing bug in decompressing sounds from the speech/music CLU files. It was generating one sample too many, which could be heard as a very slight popping noise at the end of some sounds. Files that have been compressed with older versions of compress_sword2 will, of course, still have the same error. You may want to regenerate them.

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