ScummVM: more than just an adventure

It’s a popular frontend used to play point-and-click adventures and other games. But where did ScummVM come from, and who works on it? We find out…

DAMIANO GERLI

Preservation wasn’t considered a pressing issue for the gaming industry until well into the 2000s. While such emulators as KGen and Snes9x allowed PC users to play Mega Drive and Super Nintendo games from the late 1990s onwards, there was no such luck on the MS-DOS or Windows front. With the Microsoft operating system abandoning the DOS architecture for good at the end of the nineties, playing old PC games started to become more and more of an issue. Around the turn of the millennium, though, a dedicated adventure game fan base began to overcome those hurdles, providing access to the output of LucasArts and beyond. The original ScummVM project was started in 2001 by Vincent Hamm and Ludvig Strigeus – the latter becoming better-known as the main developer of…

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