2001: a Webpage Odyssey » SCUMM http://www.benvanhouts.com www.benvanhouts.com Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:33:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 IF I HAD A MANSION IT WOULD BE MANIAC http://www.benvanhouts.com/2004/06/if-i-had-a-mansion-it-would-be-maniac/ http://www.benvanhouts.com/2004/06/if-i-had-a-mansion-it-would-be-maniac/#comments Fri, 04 Jun 2004 10:39:28 +0000 Benjamin van Houts http://www.benvanhouts.com/wordpress/?p=26 Maniac Mansion Deluxe is a superb remake of one of the best adventure games of all time. Ron Gilbert‘s wacky and revolutionary masterpiece comes to life as never before in this Windows version lovingly crafted by fans: sporting improved SCUMM point-and-click interface, digitized sound effects, and gorgeous 256-color VGA graphics.

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Maniac Mansion Box Art Maniac Mansion Deluxe Maniac Mansion Deluxe Maniac Mansion Deluxe Maniac Mansion Deluxe ]]> http://www.benvanhouts.com/2004/06/if-i-had-a-mansion-it-would-be-maniac/feed/ 0 SCUMM UNDER THE WINDOWS!! http://www.benvanhouts.com/2002/04/scumm-under-the-windows/ http://www.benvanhouts.com/2002/04/scumm-under-the-windows/#comments Wed, 10 Apr 2002 05:03:15 +0000 Benjamin van Houts http://www.benvanhouts.com/wordpress/?p=7 SCUMM stands for Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion and is a scripting language developed at LucasArts (known at the time as Lucasfilm Games) to ease development of the graphical adventure game Maniac Mansion.

ScummVM is an interpreter for games that use the SCUMM engine and runs under windows, Amiga, Linux, Mac, BeOS to name just some of the supported systems. So far only a thew games work and not many of them can be finished due to bugs however it’s erly days and it does give some hope that some time in the next thew years we will be able to play all the old classics on al most any system.

Fm-Towns a Japanese PC variant, built by Fujitsu from February 1989 to the Summer of 1997 started as a proprietary system intended for multimedia applications and computer games, but later became more compatible with regular PCs. Lucasfilm and Zak McKracken Fans may happy to know that Zak McKracken was ported to the system. Instead of been a straight port the game’s graphics where redone in 256 colours as apposed to the original 16 colours in the pc. The Best news is the Fm-Towns version of Zak McKracken can all so be played via ScummVM.

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