[Scummvm-devel] SCUMM Steam Releases

[Paul Gilbert]

I too would like to see support for the Steam releases incorporated
directly into ScummVM. Whilst I've never been involved in any of the legal
issues in the past, it seems like this draws a parallel to the prior issue
of including Smacker support in ScummVM.. enough time seems to have passed,
and none of the other tools have had any legal challenges, that it would
seem to be safer to now include support into ScummVM.


On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 8:24 PM, Matthew Hoops <clone2727 at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's about a month shy of the 5 year anniversary of the releases of
> the LucasArts SCUMM games on Steam. In those past few years, we
> haven't had any issues with that except from users frustrated that
> they couldn't play those games in ScummVM:
>
> http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=9628
> http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=12458
> http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=13521
> http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=7783
> http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=10579
>
>
> And then we just had other users write up their own patches anyway:
>
> https://github.com/symm/LAAExtract
> http://scummvm.bencastricum.nl/
>
> http://gazj.co.uk/blog/2012/11/updating-the-steam-lucasarts-adventures-patch-to-work-on-scummvm-1-dot-5-0/
>
> I'm completely in favor of a change to our policy on these games. At
> this point, even the HE SCUMM games on Steam use ScummVM. We should be
> supporting them out-of-the-box just like all the other games.
>
> Matt
>
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