You Lazy SCUMM!

Many of you may know about ScummVM - the greatest and still widely expanding, open-source adventure emulator. On my AmigaOS 4.1.5 system, i have the latest 1.5.0 version of it. The great thing about this emulator is that instead of relying on libraries, it instead relies on shared objects (known as SObjs), making it much easier to port stuffs to AmigaOS4! So what is it all about?

On the net, i found a lot of great adventure games to run in ScummVM! Games like Beneath The Steel Sky, as you see on this screenshot, Flight Of The Amazon Queen, Leisure Suit Larry 1-5 (first game is in Remake version), Space Quest 1-4 (also first game in Remake version), Police Quest 1-3 (first one in Remake version), Monkey Island 1-3, Broken Sword 1 and 2, Colonel's Bequest, Quest For Glory - Trial By Fire, Zak, Indiana Jones The Last Crusade and The Fate Of Atlantis. A great collection of amazing adventure games to play!

Broken Sword - The Shadow Of The Templars is a game i bought from AmigaKit back in 2005. This was also successfully installed into the latest ScummVM emulator, seen here to left.

The game is very thrilling and stunningly atmospheric, with a lot of puzzles and exciting dialogues between characters you meet in the game. A game i love! Both Broken Sword games are Windows version with great cartoon graphic, animation, speech, audio and music! Very cool!

The sequel Broken Sword - The Smoking Mirror is no exception, being even more thrilling and exciting to play. I found the game on the net and downloaded it. The file was 684MB BIG! Being so big makes the game very impressive and cool to play! A worthy sequel!

Other great games are of course Indiana Jones The Last Crusade and The Fate Of Atlantis. Last Crusade is the native Amiga version with true Amiga audio emulation, while Fate Of Atlantis is the CD-DOS VGA version with both speech and text! The Adlib audio emulation works really great in this game, and the graphic looks good!
Another great adventure that is cool to play for hours! You never get bored!

Indiana Jones The Fate Of Atlantis is even more exciting to play, as it has more puzzles. and the dialogues are enjoyable to listen to, with both speech and text! Graphic is looking really good in VGA! I use the Amiga render mode for all games and ScummVM, making them more beautiful! Many excellent options!

The game is a great mixture of adventure and action, as always known in these Indiana Jones movies! Games to keep in your collection!

A similar adventure game would be Flight Of The Amazon Queen, which i also found on the net. The version is FM-Towns with speech and text, with great VGA graphic. Very cool to play! One of the best adventure games that were made for both Amiga and DOS back in 1995! The Talkie version makes this game more enjoyable to play! Another fine game to have in the collection to run in ScummVM!

Now we have come to the Leisure Suit Larry collection. I have 4 of these games of the oversexed, horny bold swinger at the age of 40, trying hard to look for love in several wrong places! He is lucky if he ever gets a LAID!

The first Larry game is the Remake version using a more modern VGA graphic with Point-and-Click feature. I tried a couple of times to convince the game that i am actually 37 (19-39) by answering what is supposed to be easy questions. Answering them wrong will have the game to claim that you are a KID! I popped up and said: "Hey, i am NOT a KID! I'm an ADULT, for GOD sake!" laughing of the game! After a couple of times, i finally managed to answer all questions correctly, and could now play!

The Remake version is not the Amiga version but the DOS VGA version, but the fun is still the same! Truly funny and cool to play with greath graphic and audio! Adlib audio emulation is also used greatly in this game.

Larry 2 - Looking For Love In Several Wrong Places is the native Amiga version also found on the net, and it runs nicely with native Amiga graphic and audio in the ScummVM emulator!

Next up is Larry 3, where he meets Patti. The version is the DOS VGA version also found on the net, with good audio, graphic and music. I like the tropical environment that is used for almost the whole game. This is another fine sequel worth playing!

Last one is Larry 5, which is also the DOS VGA version found on the net, having the same look of the first Remake game. Great graphic, audio and music! Another fine collection!

Do any of you remember Laura Bow - Colonel's Bequest? A creepy murder-puzzle adventure best played on the Amiga? Found the Amiga version of the game on the net, and runs perfectly in the ScummVM emulator!

There is also a sequel to that game, but haven't downloaded it. The sequel to Laura Bow didn' look so exciting, so i left it out and kept browsing for other adventure games to put in ScummVM. Many great games to pick up to play!

Another fine collection would be the Police Quest series. For the first time, i picked up the great DOS VGA Remake version of the first Police Quest game. It was cooler to play than the old text-based version! The Remake version has excellent VGA graphic, audio and music through Adlib!

The second Police Quest is the true Amiga version with native Amiga graphic, audio and music! Probably the best of all three Police Quest games!

The third Police Quest game is the DOS VGA version that appears to be better than the Amiga version. It has nicer graphic, audio and music. Music is played through Adlib emulation and appears slightly different to the Amiga music for this game, but the game is great to play! Lots of thrilling action!

Another great collection is the Space Quest series, starting with the DOS VGA Remake version of the game that is way better than the old text version!

The second game is the native Amiga version based on text and old graphic. It's a great game to play, and a worthy important sequel to Space Quest.

The third game is also the native Amiga version, with Amiga graphic, audio and music. It's probably the best of all the Space Quest games in the serie! The Amiga version is best here!

The fourth game is the DOS VGA version. Graphic is a lot better than the Amiga version. The same with audio and music. An addition is the speech along with text, making it more enjoyable to play! Another excellent game to have running in ScummVM!

There are of course number 5 and 6 of this game, but didn't bother with them as they didn't seem enjoyable. 

Other games to mention are all the three Monkey Island games. The first and the second are pure Amiga native versions with excellent classic graphic, audio and music! Lovely nostalgic to play, with a lot of atmosphere!

The third game - The Curse Of Monkey Island, was bought from AmigaKit back in 2005, along with Broken Sword - Shadow Of The Templars. Monkey Island 3 is the Windows version using true colour cartoon graphic and animation, with great audio, speech and music! This game is truly lovely to play, and is an excellent sequel to the 2 first games!

Many of the dialogues in Monkey Island 3 are really funny to listen to, especially when Guybrush is talking to the bold skull in the sea, trying to scare Guybrush, but instead getting really teased by Guybrush! You could ask him things like: "Was your mother's father bold, too?". How cool is that? Such lines sure had me laughing, and such is a great bonus to the gameplay!

Yet another great game is Quest For Glory - Trial By Fire. The version is the pure Amiga version. Graphic, audio and music are all great in this game. So if you are into magic, fighting and thivering, then this adventure is for you to play! Very exciting, really!

Last adventure game in my collection is Zak Mckracken and the Alien Mindbenders. The pure Amiga version from 1988 installed into ScummVM! Graphic, text, audio and music are great in this adventure! Lovely nostalgic to play, bringing you back into the good, old eighties!

This was another great blog complete for this time. As i love playing great adventure games, i hope you will love to read this blog, and enjoy the pictures, if you are into adventures yourself.

See you all in a new blog in a forseable future. Stay tuned ;)

Written by:
Helge Kvalheim, Norway