packages VS scummvm

Switch to using Steam Linux Runtime - Sniper for the built engines. This provides newer tooling for builds, which should make future development easier, for example being able to build qt 5.15 and have gcc 10 available. The 100+ engines have been re-built. Note that previous clients should still work on the older soldier, but any new updates will only happen to sniper (this client and above). If you run into any issues with the engines, please open a new issue in the packages repo.

What happened here is the Luxtorpeda is now allowing normal ScummVM to launch this game (this commit). I think before you needed the separate Roberta layer to do this.

Luxtorpeda OpenMW is currently broken, there’s a performance bug. https://github.com/luxtorpeda-dev/packages/issues/840

1) Then download and extract this to somewhere else.

I'm the maintainer of luxtorpeda-dev. It currently does not support cloud saves, but it's something that I'm working on (you can see progress as I make it here: https://github.com/luxtorpeda-dev/packages/issues/645)

Daggerfall Unity will likely be in Luxtorpeda soon, there'a a PR for it: https://github.com/luxtorpeda-dev/packages/pull/651

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.