Remember the golden days of old school games like The Dig, Full Throttle, King’s Quest 3 and Maniac Mansion? How would you like to play those on your iPhone? That’s the idea behind the latest port of ScummVM, a program designed to let you enjoy "certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure
games."
The idea behind ScummVM is to let you enjoy these old games provided you still own the original data files (think floppy disks probably). ScummVM today supports over 150 different games by a number of development companies, according to this ScummVM iPhone wiki. The program replaces the executables shipped with the games.
For the iPhone port, ScummVM is still in beta. Games which have thus far passed testing use various iPhone actions to execute commands. A left click, for example, is a single tap. There’s apparently been a little bit of chatter about this program already, which is why the developers posted the early beta. Good luck if you try using it and enjoy stomping those old graphical adventure game grounds.
[via Inside Mac Games News]
May 3rd, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Nice post maybe think about doing this full time?