eklipsed), we now use CPU-specific SIMD instructions such as SSE, AVX2, and NEON for drawing graphics in the AGS engine and in some generic routines. Thanks to the work of one of the GSoC participants this year, Wyatt Radkiewicz (a.k.a. The Atari FireBee port is still using the SDL library, though. That made many more games playable on the platform. The Atari port has also been redone from scratch and now talks natively to the hardware, skipping SDL as an intermediate layer. We are happy to see the RetroArch port being properly rewritten, and the port is now part of our source code. 14 AGS titles by Stranga and Cloak and DaggerĪll together, we’ve introduced 50 new games and five new engines.Wrath of the Gods and four other Director titles.Syberia and Syberia II (macOS versions only).Nancy Drew: Treasure in the Royal Tower.Nancy Drew: Message in a Haunted Mansion.

The list of supported games grew noticeably, and we now support these additions: The team was quite busy working on new engines and enhancing existing ones. Please welcome ScummVM 2.8.0 – “Mysteries, Mammoths, and Muppets”. We are proud to announce the last release of the year 2023. maybe I can use working on this as a way to unwind as I work my way through it all. After all, I still have the drudgery of implementing all the game scenes' logic for Riddle of Master Lu to look forward to :P. It may be that I'll just putter around with them between working on other games. I haven't firmly committed to working on Fountain of Dreams and/or Wasteland. Will further work be done? At this point I'm not entirely sure. At the moment, what's shown is pretty much all there is, but it's a firm starting point that further work can be done on. I give you, Fountain of Dreams startup in ScummVM:Īs you'll see from the attached YouTube video, I even added basic mouse control support for the character creation screens, just for the heck of it. My time was productive, and I was not only able to reverse engineer and reimplement the entirety of the character creation screens, but also get a basic map display going. I'd done some previous examination, and it looked like the codebase was fairly straightforward and simple (at least for the small parts of the executables I investigated). In this case, rather than fall back on working on the early Legend games yet again, I decided on the Wasteland engine, in particular disassembling Fountain of Dreams. Other than that, on a final note, as with previous years I choose to muck around with something different over the Christmas holidays. Hopefully this testing period will have others discover any other remaining issues I'd overlooked, and the game will finally be officially supported. As such, my implementation of the various game rooms' logic suffered from many minor errors that had to be identified and fixed.

All the logic of the game was hardcoded, and had to be manually implemented. I've just announced an official testing period for the game. And, just in time for Christmas, I finally finished implementing it with Orion Burger fully playable. Since that time, I'd re-implemented the MADS engine separately (though currently not all MADS games are supported), so decided it was finally time to tackle the M4 engine. Back then though, things got mixed up with trying to have the one engine support both those games as well as the earlier MADS games like Rex Nebular in a single engine, and work stalled on it. This engine had special meaning to me, as it was the first engine I worked on collaboratively with others, shortly after I first joined the group. After that, I decided to revisit another game that had been bit-rotting, in this case for nearly twenty years - the M4 engine, which supports the games Orion Burger and Ripley's Believe It Or Not - The Riddle of Master Lu.

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