Q145568
Sign in to saveScript Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion Virtual Machine (ScummVM) is a set of game engine recreations. Originally designed to play LucasArts adventure games that use the SCUMM system, it also supports a variety of non-SCUMM games by companies like Revolution Software and Adventure Soft. It was originally written by Ludvig Strigeus. ScummVM is free software that is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Key facts
- Software.name
- ScummVM
- Software.logo
- Residual.png
- Software.screenshot
- 250px|
- Software.caption
- ScummVM 2.1.0's graphical user interface with the "remastered" skin
- Software.author
- James Brown
- Software.developer
- ResidualVM Team
- Software.latest release version
- 2026.2.0
- Software.programming language
- C++ and SDL
- Software.operating system
- Cross-platform
- Software.genre
- Interpreter
- Software.license
- GNU General Public License
- Software.latest_release_version
- 0.3.1
- Software.latest preview version
- 0.4
- Software.programming_language
- C++
- Software.operating_system
- Cross-platform
- Software.discontinued
- yes
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
ScummVM :: Home
ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical adventure and role-playing games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed! ScummVM is a complete rewrite of these games' executables and is not an emulator.
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Encyclopedic overview
20 sectionsContents
- Features
- Ports
- History
- Developer support
- Development
- Mistic's GPL violations
- ResidualVM
- Support
- ResidualVM supported games
- Supported games
- LucasArts games
- Sierra On-Line games
- Coktel Vision games
- Adventuresoft-Horrorsoft games
- Humongous Entertainment games
- Games by other developers
- Notes
- See also
- References
- External links
Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion Virtual Machine (ScummVM) is a set of game engine recreations. Originally designed to play LucasArts adventure games that use the SCUMM system, it also supports a variety of non-SCUMM games by companies like Revolution Software and Adventure Soft. It was originally written by Ludvig Strigeus. ScummVM is free software that is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
ScummVM is a re-implementation of the part of the software used to interpret the scripting languages such games used to describe the game world rather than emulating the hardware the games ran on; as such, ScummVM allows the games it supports to be played on platforms other than those for which they were originally released with little or no overhead (due to not emulating the hardware), and without the bugs that might exist in the original software.
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