rawgl VS scummvm

raw(gl) - Another World clone. C++, SDL2

Gregory Montoir have reimplemented the VM in C++ here:

https://github.com/cyxx/rawgl

He also did the same for Flashback (REminiscence)

Depending on where you live, it was either called "Out Of This World" or "Another World". It's a cool game, because the engine was written as a kind of "virtual machine" that interprets game bytecode. And the interpreter itself was pretty small, and easy to port to new platforms, so although the game started on the Amiga and Atari ST, it got a ton of ports over the years (literally a couple dozen systems). There are even open source versions of the game engine.

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.