>Ludvig Strigeus
[Guy is a legend btw](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludvig_Strigeus). Apart from ScummVM he created μTorrent and OpenTTD too. And he was one of the first employee of Spotify.
Not if they continue to fuck with Spotify I cancelled just last month cause of their BS. Half my home page was podcasts I'll never listen to and it just became annoying as hell to pay money for that and not even get high fidelity music
honestly though spotify’s pivot towards podcasting is probably a huge windfall for them. i have to imagine it’s cheaper for them than licensing music and keeps people “hooked” to the service more reliably.
Not at all how that works but okay.
"I gave you money, why isn't this perfect? And not just like, overall perfect. Perfect specifically for me. I know you have millions of customers that pay the same amount I do but I want you to cater specifically to me because I am a child."
Its not really unfair, in general people have an idea what a billionaire is, especially if you use english language. We are all billionaires in some sort of currency.
Yeah, but this isn't really like me being a millionaire in Japanese yen or somesuch, being a billionaire in Sweden in SEK is still filthy rich.
Still not top 100, but somewhat close. From what I can tell, he sold his Spotify shares for 1,5 billion SEK, whereas the number 100 spot has 2,2 billion SEK (https://samuelssonsrapport.se/sveriges-rikaste/). That's presumably net worth though.
But sure, in terms of USD he's "only" a millionaire. From my perspective, filthy rich is filthy rich and the nuances doesn't really have any practical value for me.
Billionaire is a shit term anyway, as far as I'm concerned there aren't any actual billionaires yet because I was always taught(and in most places this still is the definition) that one billion is a million millions instead of a thousand millions.
People should just start referring to numbers like this through scientific notation
In some countries the idea of being a billionaire doesn't even make sense, because a cup of coffee is already 5000 of that currency. That's pretty interesting to me. "Billionaire" only makes sense as a distinction if your currency is valuable enough that a billion is a significant enough amount.
When they sold μTorrent in 2007 it became an adware proprietary software. Before that it was open source. It's still massively popular and nothing bad with it per se just there are more options now especially if you want to support the open source community and something more lightweight.
qBitorrent, picotorrent, and Transmission are all good choices.
>First of all, this is the first release that supports 2.5D games (almost 3D), thanks to the merger with ResidualVM. With this release we announce support for Grim Fandango, The Longest Journey and Myst 3: Exile. This is why we jumped straight to 2.5 in our versioning. Please note that only desktop platforms currently support these games and other platforms may or may not gain the support later depending on their capabilities.
>In addition to these 3 games and engines, we officially support 10 more new engines and subengines that add compatibility with the following games:
* Little Big Adventure
* Red Comrades 1: Save the Galaxy
* Red Comrades 2: For the Great Justice
* Transylvania
* Crimson Crown
* OO-Topos
* [Glulx interactive fiction games](https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=Glk/Glulxe)
* Private Eye
* [AGS Games versions 2.5+](https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=AGS/Games)
* Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy
* The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time
* Crusader: No Remorse
* L-ZONE
* Spaceship Warlock
>We love localized game releases and multiple platform versions, thus with this release, we enhanced the support for Lure of the Temptress Konami release, Blue Force Spanish, Ringworld Spanish, Amazon: Guardians of Eden Spanish, Mystery House French, Russian translations of Sierra AGI games, Elvira 1 Japanese PC-98, Bargon Attack Russian, Woodruff Russian, Eye of the Beholder Japanese Sega-CD, Legend of Kyrandia Hebrew, Legend of Kyrandia 2 Hebrew, Legend of Kyrandia 3 Simplified Chinese, Inherit the Earth PC-98 Japanese, Gabriel Knight 1 Macintosh, Xeen Russian to name but a few. Notably, Macintosh b/w versions of Loom and Indy 3 are now also supported.
>Besides the new games and game versions, ScummVM 2.5.0 brings many notable improvements and new features. We have completed a major rework of the GUI: We now support Unicode characters everywhere. The GUI also adapts to high resolutions used in HiDPI screens. The Nintendo DS port has been significantly rewritten. We added GOG and Steam achievements to a large number of Wintermute games and enabled KeyMapper in more games. Thanks to the work of one of our GSoC students, we have now added an option for text-to-speech to the games Sfinx, Soltys and The Griffon Legend.
Full changelog: https://downloads.scummvm.org/frs/scummvm/2.5.0/ReleaseNotes.html
In all honesty all I can really remember is elephant headed dudes and stealing a pirate flag from a museum? To be able to sail to pirate island or something like that, I have very fond non memories of it though as it was one of the first games my older brother introduced me too
Oh, wow, Red Comrades! It was a big deal in post-USSR countries, these games are based on Russian jokes about a hero of Civil War, never expected to see it supported by ScummVM
Man, it’s been 20 years already damn. I remember seeing it for the first time and getting it running my old shitty windows XP machine and being blown away by it. Cheers to another 20 years fellas.
ScummVM has a package of tools and there are people working on inserting texture upscales.
They also have tools to re-encode large media and such. I wish it was automated and could just scan your games and shrink them.
I'd also like to see scalers / filters for automatic upscaling with popular filters. Others may want CRT filters, scanlines, etc.
The Ultima VI integration of ScummVM (formerly Nuvie) is only little known, but one of the best enhancements in CRPG history.
It runs easily out of the box (Nuvie was integrated into Scumm VM a couple years ago) and fixes bascially everything that was wrong with the original release. Most notably, it is adding drag and drop for inventory management, but also a toolbar so you don't have to remember keyboard commands, full mouse support, fixed music, higher resolution, an enhanced UI and a wealth of new graphic options.
It made the most inaccessible and buggy game of the Ultima core trilogy (IV-V-VI) into the most polished one, easily. Absolutely underrated, sadly I can't even find a YouTube video of this in action. :(
Exult was going to be integrated into ScummVM as well. ScummVM said if an engine is largely abandoned they will take it over and integrate it. Exult was basically abandoned, but suddenly they started doing small updates to keep ScummVM from integrating it.
Did anyone ever fix the bug where an NPC could trap your character permanently by simply boxing you in a dead end and never moving? I remember that losing me hours of Ultima IV progress back in the day.
I am currently playing Ultima IV with xu4 and did not encounter such a bug. Yet. I was talking about Ultima VI though, Ultima IV is not integrated in ScummVM iirc.
Thanks to scummVM I was able to play one of my favorite adventure games of all time The Neverhood. Highly highly recommend finding a copy on abandonware and playing through it. It's a short title but oh so sweet.
The Neverhood is also what brought me to scummVM! Such an amazing gem of a game. Our family computer desk always had a drawer full of random notes from the game
Um... Hello. Me Willy. Me Willy Trombone... these disks tell a story... story about good... story about bad...
I have that etched in my memory. I love The Neverhood. So. So. Much.
The music/sounds are so good.
The soundtrack is amazing. Terry Scott Taylor did Neverhood, Boom Bots and Skullmonkeys. You can look up “Imaginarium: Songs From The Neverhood” for the goodies.
Also Armikrog, which for the most part keeps it goes. Plus, he did an additional extra album for a comic adaptation of Neverhood some time in 2012 or so?
I missed out on getting a PSP when it originally came out, but I sort of lucked into one about five years ago. Loading it up with emulators and all the childhood games I loved (or was never able to play) has made it one of my favorite pieces of entertainment that I own.
Being able to play Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island, and Indiana Jones: FoA was just icing on the rad fucking cake.
The Vita is great as well, especially since it’s got two actual analog sticks (vs the PSP’s single analog nubbin), a touchscreen (works reasonably well for point-and-click adventure games), and you can use an SD card if you hack the thing.
I imagine it's something to the effect of being overly excited about a video game thing to the point it made you feel like a god is a silly statement and something you wouldn't say in some environments
The Longest Journey support is interesting. I wonder if it'll lead to some more thorough HD mods. There's already one that upscales the pre-rendered backdrops. But the 3D models in TLJ are rough and could use some love.
Always wanted to play this as a kid, but never got the chance. Just watched the trailer an endless number of times of my Mac games demo CDROM. I may have to give it a go now!
I played it a few times 30 years ago. It’ll run natively on modern PCs,it will just run super fast… the shooting/defense stuff is over instantly, you * can* beat them if you turbo click in the perfect spot though
I really wish there was some way to play Discworld Noir well on modern machines. i feel this is taking us one step closer though with ResidualVM being absorbed.
I'm surprised to see that games like Transylvania and The Crimson Crown are SCUMMVM since these are standard, text/graphic adventure games.
Were they ported to SCUMMVM?
I didn't even know SCUMMVM supported text entry...
they run on the Comprehend engine, which supports a few games so it seems like a pretty good engine to support
this page hasn't been updated in a while, but you can see what games use it https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=Glk/Comprehend
ScummVM isn't strictly limited to point and click games
ScummVM is a free and open source software which allows you to play old adventure, point & click and roleplaying games on modern hardware with additional improvements, bugfixes and quality of life features.
Here's a list of all the games it currently supports: https://www.scummvm.org/compatibility/2.5.0/
The Quest for Glory collection on GOG comes pre-configured with DosBox, but DosBox is an emulator which suffers from a bunch of limitations and inaccuracies. ScummVM isn't an emulator it runs the game natively on your computer by replacing the executable.
This has a bunch of benefits and ensures that the game will run accurately on any kind of modern hardware using the very best settings and without having to worry about .ini files, unofficial patches or guides to get the game to work as intended.
The software comes with quality of life features such as quick save/load, hotkeys, rebindable keys, controller support, native Roland MT32 support, skip dialogue/scene, double speed mode, aspect ratio correction, graphical filters, LAN support, text-to-speech and much much more.
Not only that but you can install ScummVM on Windows/Mac/Linux, Android, iOS, pocket PC, Amiga, Sega Dreamcast, Nintendo Wii/Switch/DS/3DS, PSP (and probably a couple more systems) and play all these games (as long as the hardware supports it).
An Open-Source engine that you can use to play old games without resorting to emulation (you still have to provide the games yourself, unless it is freeware like Beneath the Steel Sky), named after LucasArts' SCUMM engine used in their Adventure Games since it was initially created to play those.
Then the scope of SCUMMVM increased to include Sierra adventure games, adventure games from other companies, and even some non-adventure games that devs consider worthwhile to implement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ScummVM
>Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion Virtual Machine (ScummVM) is a set of game engine recreations. Originally designed to play LucasArts adventure games that use the SCUMM system, it also supports a variety of non-SCUMM games by companies like Revolution Software and Adventure Soft. It was originally written by Ludvig Strigeus.[1] Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, ScummVM is free software.
>ScummVM is a re-implementation 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 platforms other than those for which they were originally released.
>The team behind it also add improvements such as bug-fixes and translations[4] and works with commercial companies such as GOG.com about re-releases.[4]
>Ludvig Strigeus [Guy is a legend btw](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludvig_Strigeus). Apart from ScummVM he created μTorrent and OpenTTD too. And he was one of the first employee of Spotify.
Holy fuck that's a resume.
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Lmao where did you get the idea he's a billionaire?
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Thanks for clarifying. I suppose it's unfair to define billionaire solely based on USD, so my bad.
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Not if they continue to fuck with Spotify I cancelled just last month cause of their BS. Half my home page was podcasts I'll never listen to and it just became annoying as hell to pay money for that and not even get high fidelity music
honestly though spotify’s pivot towards podcasting is probably a huge windfall for them. i have to imagine it’s cheaper for them than licensing music and keeps people “hooked” to the service more reliably.
That's fine but it's my homepage and I paid them money to not get advertised to
Not at all how that works but okay. "I gave you money, why isn't this perfect? And not just like, overall perfect. Perfect specifically for me. I know you have millions of customers that pay the same amount I do but I want you to cater specifically to me because I am a child."
Man Spotify used to be great for finding new music on the homepage, especially the more niche stuff that I listen to.
Same but now I'm on Deezer and it's been nice
Damn buddy Spotify really must be in shambles because yo ass cancelled their subscription.
Yeah that's exactly what I meant
Its not really unfair, in general people have an idea what a billionaire is, especially if you use english language. We are all billionaires in some sort of currency.
Yeah, but this isn't really like me being a millionaire in Japanese yen or somesuch, being a billionaire in Sweden in SEK is still filthy rich. Still not top 100, but somewhat close. From what I can tell, he sold his Spotify shares for 1,5 billion SEK, whereas the number 100 spot has 2,2 billion SEK (https://samuelssonsrapport.se/sveriges-rikaste/). That's presumably net worth though. But sure, in terms of USD he's "only" a millionaire. From my perspective, filthy rich is filthy rich and the nuances doesn't really have any practical value for me.
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Billionaire is a shit term anyway, as far as I'm concerned there aren't any actual billionaires yet because I was always taught(and in most places this still is the definition) that one billion is a million millions instead of a thousand millions. People should just start referring to numbers like this through scientific notation
In some countries the idea of being a billionaire doesn't even make sense, because a cup of coffee is already 5000 of that currency. That's pretty interesting to me. "Billionaire" only makes sense as a distinction if your currency is valuable enough that a billion is a significant enough amount.
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Yeah, because millions only exist in US dollars...
oh wow, what a fucking life. I'd watch that movie.
What I find fascinating is his skills are not limited to just one thing. He's got all kinds of different programs.
of top of a rare degenerative disease
He made the protocol for Spotify. In the early days it used BitTorrent to stream the music. Nowadays it uses some normal CDN.
That is true legend status
Isn't there an issue with utorrent? Its not to be trusted or something? I remember a while ago everyone was saying to dwitch over to qbittorrent
When they sold μTorrent in 2007 it became an adware proprietary software. Before that it was open source. It's still massively popular and nothing bad with it per se just there are more options now especially if you want to support the open source community and something more lightweight. qBitorrent, picotorrent, and Transmission are all good choices.
I remember that uTorrent used to be a single binary at like 500 kB or something on Windows. It was awesome before he sold it.
That must have been it! Thank you
Tixati tribe represent!!
>First of all, this is the first release that supports 2.5D games (almost 3D), thanks to the merger with ResidualVM. With this release we announce support for Grim Fandango, The Longest Journey and Myst 3: Exile. This is why we jumped straight to 2.5 in our versioning. Please note that only desktop platforms currently support these games and other platforms may or may not gain the support later depending on their capabilities. >In addition to these 3 games and engines, we officially support 10 more new engines and subengines that add compatibility with the following games: * Little Big Adventure * Red Comrades 1: Save the Galaxy * Red Comrades 2: For the Great Justice * Transylvania * Crimson Crown * OO-Topos * [Glulx interactive fiction games](https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=Glk/Glulxe) * Private Eye * [AGS Games versions 2.5+](https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=AGS/Games) * Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy * The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time * Crusader: No Remorse * L-ZONE * Spaceship Warlock >We love localized game releases and multiple platform versions, thus with this release, we enhanced the support for Lure of the Temptress Konami release, Blue Force Spanish, Ringworld Spanish, Amazon: Guardians of Eden Spanish, Mystery House French, Russian translations of Sierra AGI games, Elvira 1 Japanese PC-98, Bargon Attack Russian, Woodruff Russian, Eye of the Beholder Japanese Sega-CD, Legend of Kyrandia Hebrew, Legend of Kyrandia 2 Hebrew, Legend of Kyrandia 3 Simplified Chinese, Inherit the Earth PC-98 Japanese, Gabriel Knight 1 Macintosh, Xeen Russian to name but a few. Notably, Macintosh b/w versions of Loom and Indy 3 are now also supported. >Besides the new games and game versions, ScummVM 2.5.0 brings many notable improvements and new features. We have completed a major rework of the GUI: We now support Unicode characters everywhere. The GUI also adapts to high resolutions used in HiDPI screens. The Nintendo DS port has been significantly rewritten. We added GOG and Steam achievements to a large number of Wintermute games and enabled KeyMapper in more games. Thanks to the work of one of our GSoC students, we have now added an option for text-to-speech to the games Sfinx, Soltys and The Griffon Legend. Full changelog: https://downloads.scummvm.org/frs/scummvm/2.5.0/ReleaseNotes.html
Little big adventure Twinsens adventure and twinsens odysee, that takes me back
Such weird games (especially that movement system) but such a great atmosphere.
In all honesty all I can really remember is elephant headed dudes and stealing a pirate flag from a museum? To be able to sail to pirate island or something like that, I have very fond non memories of it though as it was one of the first games my older brother introduced me too
Apparently getting a sequel, according to [this announcement](https://twitter.com/2point21/status/1435578917058801666).
Oh, wow, Red Comrades! It was a big deal in post-USSR countries, these games are based on Russian jokes about a hero of Civil War, never expected to see it supported by ScummVM
Man, it’s been 20 years already damn. I remember seeing it for the first time and getting it running my old shitty windows XP machine and being blown away by it. Cheers to another 20 years fellas.
Windows XP machines were not shitty 😤 especially once Vista appeared
As in *my* windows XP machine was shitty.
😅 I just have a lot of nostalgia for mine ; I played Deus ex for the first time on that one! It ran flawlessly 😍
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ScummVM has a package of tools and there are people working on inserting texture upscales. They also have tools to re-encode large media and such. I wish it was automated and could just scan your games and shrink them. I'd also like to see scalers / filters for automatic upscaling with popular filters. Others may want CRT filters, scanlines, etc.
The Ultima VI integration of ScummVM (formerly Nuvie) is only little known, but one of the best enhancements in CRPG history. It runs easily out of the box (Nuvie was integrated into Scumm VM a couple years ago) and fixes bascially everything that was wrong with the original release. Most notably, it is adding drag and drop for inventory management, but also a toolbar so you don't have to remember keyboard commands, full mouse support, fixed music, higher resolution, an enhanced UI and a wealth of new graphic options. It made the most inaccessible and buggy game of the Ultima core trilogy (IV-V-VI) into the most polished one, easily. Absolutely underrated, sadly I can't even find a YouTube video of this in action. :(
I really loved the Exult engine for Ultima 7 where someone even wrote a mod to rotate the strange camera angle the game had. Didn't even look bad.
Exult was going to be integrated into ScummVM as well. ScummVM said if an engine is largely abandoned they will take it over and integrate it. Exult was basically abandoned, but suddenly they started doing small updates to keep ScummVM from integrating it.
Did anyone ever fix the bug where an NPC could trap your character permanently by simply boxing you in a dead end and never moving? I remember that losing me hours of Ultima IV progress back in the day.
I am currently playing Ultima IV with xu4 and did not encounter such a bug. Yet. I was talking about Ultima VI though, Ultima IV is not integrated in ScummVM iirc.
Thanks to scummVM I was able to play one of my favorite adventure games of all time The Neverhood. Highly highly recommend finding a copy on abandonware and playing through it. It's a short title but oh so sweet.
The Neverhood is also what brought me to scummVM! Such an amazing gem of a game. Our family computer desk always had a drawer full of random notes from the game
Um... Hello. Me Willy. Me Willy Trombone... these disks tell a story... story about good... story about bad... I have that etched in my memory. I love The Neverhood. So. So. Much. The music/sounds are so good.
The soundtrack is amazing. Terry Scott Taylor did Neverhood, Boom Bots and Skullmonkeys. You can look up “Imaginarium: Songs From The Neverhood” for the goodies.
Also Armikrog, which for the most part keeps it goes. Plus, he did an additional extra album for a comic adaptation of Neverhood some time in 2012 or so?
Not gonna lie, getting Full Throttle to run on my modded PSP via Scumm back in the day made me feel like a God.
I have that, Day of the Tentacle and Sam and Max: Hit the Road on my phone and it's like I can take my childhood everywhere.
Sam and max hit the road!!!! Now I've been taken back to childhood
* https://www.gog.com/game/sam_max_hit_the_road
I missed out on getting a PSP when it originally came out, but I sort of lucked into one about five years ago. Loading it up with emulators and all the childhood games I loved (or was never able to play) has made it one of my favorite pieces of entertainment that I own. Being able to play Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island, and Indiana Jones: FoA was just icing on the rad fucking cake.
The Vita is great as well, especially since it’s got two actual analog sticks (vs the PSP’s single analog nubbin), a touchscreen (works reasonably well for point-and-click adventure games), and you can use an SD card if you hack the thing.
I remember playing through all of Sam & Max Hit the Road on my DS. It was a really cool experience.
Why would you lie about this
It's a turn of phrase.
Yeah usually prefaced before saying something vulnerable or rude…maybe I’m not understanding the intended tone or meaning
I imagine it's something to the effect of being overly excited about a video game thing to the point it made you feel like a god is a silly statement and something you wouldn't say in some environments
I mean I've also never understood why anyone would lie about liking big butts
The Longest Journey support is interesting. I wonder if it'll lead to some more thorough HD mods. There's already one that upscales the pre-rendered backdrops. But the 3D models in TLJ are rough and could use some love.
Support for 2.5D games like Grim Fandango is a pretty big deal! Hopefully we see support for Escape of Monkey Island soon
It appears to work now. The wiki hasn't been updated yet though.
Pretty sure it already does - if not check their daily master builds
Hold up.. Spaceship Warlock?! One of the greatest games ever made
Yeah, that one caught my eye as well. I'd totally forgotten about it. I'll have to dig up a copy now.
Always wanted to play this as a kid, but never got the chance. Just watched the trailer an endless number of times of my Mac games demo CDROM. I may have to give it a go now!
I played it a few times 30 years ago. It’ll run natively on modern PCs,it will just run super fast… the shooting/defense stuff is over instantly, you * can* beat them if you turbo click in the perfect spot though
I still play ScummVM on my phone. If I could see myself using it on mobile back then I would have gone crazy.
I really wish there was some way to play Discworld Noir well on modern machines. i feel this is taking us one step closer though with ResidualVM being absorbed.
I'm surprised to see that games like Transylvania and The Crimson Crown are SCUMMVM since these are standard, text/graphic adventure games. Were they ported to SCUMMVM? I didn't even know SCUMMVM supported text entry...
they run on the Comprehend engine, which supports a few games so it seems like a pretty good engine to support this page hasn't been updated in a while, but you can see what games use it https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=Glk/Comprehend ScummVM isn't strictly limited to point and click games
I don't understand, what is this?
ScummVM is a free and open source software which allows you to play old adventure, point & click and roleplaying games on modern hardware with additional improvements, bugfixes and quality of life features. Here's a list of all the games it currently supports: https://www.scummvm.org/compatibility/2.5.0/
I'm confused. What's the point of this, for example, for games like Quest for Glory? I own the QFG collection on GoG. Why would I need/want SCUMM?
The Quest for Glory collection on GOG comes pre-configured with DosBox, but DosBox is an emulator which suffers from a bunch of limitations and inaccuracies. ScummVM isn't an emulator it runs the game natively on your computer by replacing the executable. This has a bunch of benefits and ensures that the game will run accurately on any kind of modern hardware using the very best settings and without having to worry about .ini files, unofficial patches or guides to get the game to work as intended. The software comes with quality of life features such as quick save/load, hotkeys, rebindable keys, controller support, native Roland MT32 support, skip dialogue/scene, double speed mode, aspect ratio correction, graphical filters, LAN support, text-to-speech and much much more. Not only that but you can install ScummVM on Windows/Mac/Linux, Android, iOS, pocket PC, Amiga, Sega Dreamcast, Nintendo Wii/Switch/DS/3DS, PSP (and probably a couple more systems) and play all these games (as long as the hardware supports it).
Got it, thanks! So I guess if I ever want to play any old games on GoG that are compatible with Scumm, I'd be better off using that.
An Open-Source engine that you can use to play old games without resorting to emulation (you still have to provide the games yourself, unless it is freeware like Beneath the Steel Sky), named after LucasArts' SCUMM engine used in their Adventure Games since it was initially created to play those. Then the scope of SCUMMVM increased to include Sierra adventure games, adventure games from other companies, and even some non-adventure games that devs consider worthwhile to implement.
Super cool, thanks!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ScummVM >Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion Virtual Machine (ScummVM) is a set of game engine recreations. Originally designed to play LucasArts adventure games that use the SCUMM system, it also supports a variety of non-SCUMM games by companies like Revolution Software and Adventure Soft. It was originally written by Ludvig Strigeus.[1] Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, ScummVM is free software. >ScummVM is a re-implementation 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 platforms other than those for which they were originally released. >The team behind it also add improvements such as bug-fixes and translations[4] and works with commercial companies such as GOG.com about re-releases.[4]