iortcw VS scummvm

https://github.com/iortcw/iortcw - iortcw (Civvie 11 used this in his review)

Return to Castle Wolfenstein can run mostly fine on modern hardware, but if it doesn't, there are two noteworthy source ports that can run the game: ioRTCW and RealRTCW. The former is simply gives the game more stability and tons of fixes while keeping the classic RTCW feel, whereas RealRTCW is a full overhaul of the base game, with higher-quality textures, new weapons, rebalanced gunplay, and other changes: https://github.com/iortcw/iortcw https://www.moddb.com/mods/realrtcw-realism-mod

Is this the right link? https://github.com/iortcw/iortcw/releases

Link: GitHub - iortcw/iortcw: Merge of ioquake3 features and fixes into RTCW code bases

And remember to check out the two open source projects called ET: Legacy and iortcw.

In the end, it feels to me that providing opposition to hostile business models is the only way forwards, even if piracy is notoriously bad in the industry and there is ample competition, so not doing DRM and even having parts of your project be open source is probably financial suicide, as evidenced by the occasional thread on /r/gamedev about someone having their game be essentially stolen and it being uploaded elsewhere and someone else getting profits from their hard work.

Linked, because it's actually pretty interesting:

[1] - https://github.com/iortcw/iortcw

ScummVM - Engine to run DOS Point & Click Adventure games. C++, SDL2, OpenGL

They're now affiliated with ZoomPlatform, if you want to both buy DRM-free and support ScummVM: https://www.scummvm.org/news/20230830/ , https://www.scummvm.org/ (link on right under PayPal)

u/d10sfan has added ScummVM port for Sanitarium to Luxtorpeda repos. Thanks to that, modern port of the game can be played as a Steam game.

u/d10sfan has added ScummVM port for Sanitarium to Luxtorpeda repos. Thanks to that, modern port of the game can be played as a Steam game.

SCUMM VM is now like that, plenty of Point and Click games https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm

It's a long shot, but some old games are available via https://www.scummvm.org/

Ultima 6 - I use ScummVM to play it. It's a great engine that provides a layer of UI compatibility over the game.

The game is "Beneath A Steel Sky", an old school point and click adventure. And though the graphics are pixel style, they are still very well done, and the game and story are still great. The emulator is ScummVM. There's some other games that were released as freeware.

ScummVM, which has been working on Adobe Director support, can detect the game (thank you @mistydemeo <3), but trying to run it will softlock you on the game's title screen, unable to click anything. It's likely this will be fixed in the future, but for now I can't recommend it for this particular game.