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<div align="center"><span style="font-size: 22pt">ScummVM</span><br />''Version 2.5.1''<br />''Author: [[ScummVM Team]]''<br />''Developer Scumm V M Team''<br />''2001''</div></div>

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| Software = ScummVM
| Image = [[Image:ScummVMMenuSS.png|190px]]<br />
''ScummVM'' Menu Screen
| Version = 2.9.1
| ReleaseDate = {{2025S}}-05-25<ref>[https://www.scummvm.org/downloads/#current https://www.scummvm.org/]</ref>
| Company = ScummVM Team
| DevStatus = {{ActiveDev}}
| Published = {{Published}}
| Developers = {{ScummVMTeamToolDev}} (see: [[#Credits|Credits]] below.
| Interface = {{GUI}}
| ProgLanguage = {{C++}}
| OpenSource = {{OpenSRC}}
| Source = {{SourceSW}}[https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm Yes]
| License = {{GPL3}}
| Type = {{FanThirdPartyInterp}}
| Engine = {{AGITool}}, {{SCITool}}
| Platform = {{WinTool}}, {{LinuxTool}}, {{MacTool}}, {{PS3Tool}}, {{AndroidTool}}, {{iOSTool}}, {{DreamcastTool}}, {{NintendoDSTool}}, {{WiiTool}}, {{SwitchTool}}, {{HaikuTool}}, {{AmigaTool}}, {{MorphOSTool}}, {{RISCOSTool}}, {{FreeMiNTTool}} ADL AGI DGDS GOB SCI Shivers2 AGS
| Localization = {{EnglishTool}}
| Website = [https://www.scummvm.org/ https://www.scummvm.org/]
}}

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==<br /> A.K.A. ==

* SVM

==<br /> Introduction ==

'''ScummVM''' is a third party open source interpreter for playing [[AGI]], [[SCI]] and many other non-Sierra games on modern operating systems and devices. It has merged the old [[Sarien]] and [[FreeSCI]] projects into itself to include support for the AGI and SCI games. The Sierra game support started by merging with the open source (OSS) projects, [[Sarien]] and [[FreeSCI]], who were attempting the same goal for those engines. Many of those developers became part of the ScummVM team to further develop and maintain those sub-engines.

The project began as an effort to play the Lucas Arts games on other operating systems and newer devices. 
It wrote an updated replacement interpreter with the intent to be easily portable to other platforms. It uses the original game data to play these games on newer platforms than the original Lucas Arts game engine, "SCUMM" or "Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion," is capable of doing.

It gradually added support for games from other developers, including Sierra's [[AGI]] and [[SCI]] interpreters.

ScummVM allows us to play the Sierra classics on modern Windows as well as portable devices such as Androids an iOS.

==<br /> Description ==

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'''Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion Virtual Machine''' ('''ScummVM''') is a set of [[w:game engine recreation|game engine recreations]]. Originally designed to play [[w:LucasArts adventure games|LucasArts adventure games]] that use the [[w:SCUMM|SCUMM]] system, it also supports a variety of non-SCUMM games by companies like [[Revolution Software]] and [[w:Adventure Soft|Adventure Soft]]. It was originally written by [[w:Ludvig Strigeus|Ludvig Strigeus]].<ref>[http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/ScummVM_History history of ScummVM] on ScummVM Wiki</ref> Released under the terms of the [[w:GNU General Public License|GNU General Public License]], ScummVM is [[w:free software|free software]].

ScummVM is a reimplementation of the part of the software used to interpret the scripting languages such games used to describe the game world rather than emulating the hardware the games ran on; as such, ScummVM allows the games it supports to be played on [[w:system platform|platforms]] other than those for which they were originally released.
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==<br /> Features ==

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''ScummVM'' is a program that supports numerous adventure game engines via [[w:Virtual machine|virtual machine]]s, allowing the user to play supported adventure games on their platform of choice. ''ScummVM'' provides none of the original assets for the games it supports, and expects the user to properly own the original game's media so as to use the software legally. The official project website offers games that are [[w:Freeware|freeware]] that work directly with ''ScummVM''. Atop emulating the games, ''ScummVM'' enables players to save and load the state of the emulator at any time, enabling a save system atop whatever the emulated game may provide. It has also begun to work at providing alternate controls for newer devices, such as mobile devices with touch screens, which work atop the original games.<ref>Moss, Richard (January 16, 2012). "[https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/01/maniac-tentacle-mindbenders-of-atlantis-how-scummvm-kept-adventure-gaming-alive/ Maniac Tentacle Mindbenders: How ScummVM's unpaid coders kept adventure gaming alive]". Retrieved February 16, 2016.</ref><!-- <ref name="arstech scummvm"/> -->
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==<br /> Requirements ==

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==<br /> Version History ==

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* https://docs.scummvm.org/en/latest/help/release.html
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==<br /> Development Status ==

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ScummVM is currently maintained and under active development
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==<br /> Options ==

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https://docs.scummvm.org/en/latest/advanced_topics/command_line.html
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==<br /> Download ==

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Download from here:
* https://www.scummvm.org/downloads/
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==<br /> Known issues ==

* https://bugs.scummvm.org/

==<br /> Credits ==

* [[Eugene Sandulenko]]
* [[Willem Jan Palenstijn]]
* [[Johannes Schickel]]
* [[Stuart George]]
* [[Matthew Hoops]]
* [[Filippos Karapetis]]
* [[Pawel Kolodziejski]]
* [[Kari Salminen]]
* [[Greg Frieger]]
* [[Paul Gilbert]]
* [[Filippos Karapetis]]
* [[Martin Kiewitz]]
* [[Jordi Vilalta]]
* [[Lars Skovlund]]

==<br /> Legal ==

ScummVM was distributed with the {{GPL3}}

==<br /> References ==

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==<br /> Also See ==

* [[:Category:Third Party Interpreters|Third Party Interpreters]]
* [https://www.scummvm.org/ https://www.scummvm.org/]
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