ScummVM “Interactive Fantasy” 2.2.0 Sees the Light

From the original news post:

A new release of ScummVM is ready. This is a thrilling one because we are embracing adventure games as far back as 1976! That’s right, the infamous Colossal Cave Adventure, the very first Interactive Fiction game, is now supported by ScummVM.

Besides that (and about 1594 other IF games), we now added 3 more game engines and extended another 4, thus adding the following games to the supported list:

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
As you can see, we continue our exploration into the world of RPGs.

Other notable changes are: a fully rewritten MorphOS port; a new subsystem for automatic saves present in nearly every engine we support; Right-To-Left display support in our GUI; updated MT-32 emulation code and Discord Rich Presence.

We now support additional different game versions, and have noticeable improvements to Illusions, Kyra, Lab, Queen, Titanic, Xeen and ZVision engines. There is also improved support for Maniac Mansion, NES and Apple //gs versions. As usual, we continue fixing original SCI script bugs in over 30 games and added Roland D-110 soundtrack support to these games.

Of course, you can find the comprehensive Release Notes here.

Grab your copy from our downloads page, or, on Windows or macOS, let the automatic updater fetch it for you.

In addition, we will be releasing a new Android port into the Beta Channel and will need your help with testing. That would be great for us to get your feedback at the Android Port subforum.

Time to dive into a nice Interactive Fiction or fry some monsters in Ultima with a Blazing Fire, if you’re a dragon of course.

Excellent work! Exploring this will be fun. :)

Just echoing Mikko’s comments above – A superb piece of software for all RISC OS gamers.

@Cameron

Forgot to ask, are you working on SDL2 for RISC OS? If so, whoa!!! Cool!!!

added Roland D-110 soundtrack support to these games

How ironic. Back in 1989 I wrote an MT32 → D110 translator which ran on my Arc so I could play some of these games on a PC with MIDI audio…and now the games themselves will run under RISCOS.

Great to see this still receiving updates.