ScummVM is an amazing cross-platform and free project to allow you to play tons of classic role-playing and adventure video games from a single centralized software. In addition, it has a new version available now that expands some of the games supported by this software, which is welcome news for fans of digital entertainment.
ScummVM version 2.2.0 "Interactive Fantasy" is Now available with some noteworthy titles that have been added recently, such as Colossal Cave Adventure, a title originally released in 1976 and popular as the first interactive fiction game.
In addition to that title, there is also support for a large list of supported video games. And although it was initially designed to run graphic adventures from LucasArt's SCUMM graphics engine, now you can also enjoy the addition of support for a multitude of graphics engines such as ADRIFT, AdvSys, AGT Level, ZCode, and much more. That gives access to around 1600 titles those who can play with ScummVM.
In addition to Colossal Cave Adventure, other titles have also recently been added outstanding to be added to the existing ones, such as:
- Blazing dragons
- Eye of the Beholder - Sega CD version
- Griffon legend
- Interactive Fiction games
- Operation Stealth
- Police Quest: SWAT
- Prince and the Coward, English translation
- Ultima IV - Quest of the Avatar
- Ultima VI - The False Prophet
- Ultima VIII - Pagan
By the way, you have to know that some of the games on the list need the files original of the video game that you can find on platforms such as GOG, or download them from other sources. Others on the list do not need you to buy or acquire any of that.
For ScummVM version for Linux, Other aspects of this software project have also been improved, such as automatic saving for all graphics engines, improvements in the keymapper, using the native Linux file browser, fewer errors than in previous versions, etc.