How was your weekend? I love a rainy weekend in the Pacific Northwest corner of America, as it relieves my guilt of doing what I want to do ... staying inside. I read a little, wrote a little, hacked a little ... even played a classic #videogame from the 90s (Curse of Monkey Island on #ScummVM).
I also did a little math. Yeah, been thinking of taking the "Yes, and.." dice mechanics used for luck rolls in #rpg games (not sure who came up with it first), and fusing it with Mythic GM Emulator's Fate Chart, popular with the #solorpg crowd. Since I'm always playing with my notes written in #emacs on the screen, I hacked it in #lisp. Shared the details in case anyone wanted to do something similar in their favorite programming language.
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Simon the sorcerer es un juego de 1993 que puede ser jugado al día de hoy si tienes paciencia y consigues estar un rato desconectada.
[Slight Spoilers] Completed "The Dig" today - played 25 hours overall and used the walkthrough 3 times. Am satisfied though. I found a number of puzzles trial & error and the overall level pretty hard. Enjoyed it - an intriguing story, good voice acting and a bizarre world with some interesting speculative zoology in there. Clear recommendation! #Lucasarts#scummvm#pointandclick#gaming
Great Scott! Who would have thought that Daniele Spadoni had made a sequel of his previous game!
It's called The Fan Game - Back to The Future IV: The Multitasking Crystal!
Do I know anyone that's playing Orion Burger in ScummVM? Trying to get it to run in the latest build but I'm assuming I'm missing a file or two. Is there somewhere I can look that's more specific about the files I need than this?
Another late Christmas present, that I almost missed: #ScummVM is available through the #iOS App Store. Of the devices I own the iPad always seemed to be the best platform for casually playing old point and click adventure games. That is now possible. And what do I say. #ManiacMansion is fantastic on a tablet. What a great start for 2024. https://www.scummvm.org/news/20231230/
Since AGS 2.62 games doesn't run on newer Windows systems properly, I recommend to run my first game #ManiacMansionMania Episode 40 - Trapped in the Cellar with the latest @scummvm 2.8.0. version.
Did you know you can play my game in 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇵🇹 ?
Earlier tonight, I was surprised to learn that the 1990 EGA version of the original "Secret of Monkey Island" needs a separate Roland-Upgrade (DISK09.LEC) to support MT-32 music. A feature, that came as standard with the VGA version. Oh, well... this should only have been a quick Google search, but unfortunately, the LucasArts FTP server closed down years ago.
Luckily, after a few hours of research, I found out the Way-Back-Machine holds a complete index of all these updates and patches from 1999 and I eventually also discovered a complete FTP site grab from 2013! I'm so glad someone made the effort to preserve these files!
Enjoy without jailbreaking! ScummVM, a program that lets users play classic adventure games on modern devices is now available on the Apple App Store for iPhone and iPad.
ScummVM 2.8.0: Mysteries, Mammoths, and Muppets (www.scummvm.org)
ScummVM is a collection of game engines for playing classic graphical RPGs and point-and-click adventure games on modern hardware.
ScummVM 'Official' on the Apple App Store for iPhone & iPad - Pixel Refresh (www.pixelrefresh.com)
Enjoy without jailbreaking! ScummVM, a program that lets users play classic adventure games on modern devices is now available on the Apple App Store for iPhone and iPad.