@chris Zak was a very snarky game, shades of things to come! It actually let you use the butterknife on the squirrel, on par with putting the hamster into the microwave in Maniac Mansion...
@funkybuddha I'm not a Linux user, but you can use ScummVM to run those games anywhere! ScummVM has support for an incredible amount of games. For newer games, I'd recommend Thimbleweed Park (from Ron Gilbert & Co!) and Lucy Dreaming, those are also available as native Linux versions.
@funkybuddha I think Lutris is more of an emulator, ScummVM is a game interpreter that even works on slower systems and mobile devices. I love playing the old adventures on my fire tablets!
@guidobibra great point, I never really understood the difference! Any article you can recommend so I can finally clear my head around this? I’m used from the old times of MAME, after that I lost the progress for a decade or two.
Rad you can do this on fire tablets, definitely taken it to the next level 👍
@funkybuddha Hmm, I don't really have any articles handy for that, but an emulator just emulates the whole target machine more or less down to the hardware level while the interpreter literally reads the game script code and runs it on any system regardless of CPU or OS. The Amazon Fire Tabs are basically just Android devices with a modified UI, they can easily be made to run the Google Play Store too. But ScummVM can be sideloaded from their website anyway.
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