Software Update: ScummVM 0.12.0

Yesterday version 0.12.0 of ScummVM was released. This program is a cross-platform interpreter for a number of point-and-click adventure engines, especially those made with 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 on Windows, for example, but also on the PSP, AmigaOS 4, Dreamcast, Pocketpc, PalmOS, BeOS, various mobile devices that run on Symbian and even the iPhone. In this release, support for five new games has been added and ScummVM now also runs on the GameCube and Wii. The full changelog for this release looks like this:

New Games:

• Added support for The Legend of Kyrandia: Book Two: Hand of Fate.
• Added support for The Legend of Kyrandia: Book Three: Malcolm’s Revenge.
• Added support for Lost in Time.
• Added support for The Bizarre Adventures of Woodruff and the Schnibble.
• Added support for the PC version of Waxworks.
• Added support for the Macintosh version of I Have no Mouth, and I must Scream.
• Added support for Drascula: The Vampire Strikes Back.

General:

• Added CAMD MIDI driver for AmigaOS4.
• Revived the PS2 port (was already in 0.11.1 but was forgotten in the release notes).
• Plugged numerous memory leaks in all engines (part of GSoC’08 task),
• Added audio double buffering to the SDL backend, which fixes the problems with the MT-32 emulator on Mac OS X (for now only enabled on Mac OS X).

AGOS:

• Fixed crashes during certain music in Amiga versions of Elvira 1 and Simon the Sorcerer 1.
• Fixed palette issues in Amiga versions of Simon the Sorcerer 1.

queen:

• Speech is played at the correct sample rate. (It used to be pitched a bit too low.)

SCUMM:

• Rewrote parts of Digital iMUSE, fixing some bugs.
• Rewrote the internal timer code, fixing some speed issues in eg COMI.
• Improved support for sound effects in Amiga version of Zak McKracken.
• Added support for mixed Adlib/MIDI mode in Monkey Island 1 (Floppy).

[break] The Legend of Kyrandia: Book Two: Hand of Fate.