[Scummvm-devel] SCUMM Steam Releases

[Arnaud Boutonné]

Hi guys,

I fully share Matt and Paul's opinions.

Arnaud


On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Paul Gilbert <paulfgilbert at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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