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1. Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jun-2022 18:59:06 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

   DREAMM, a new x86 (Windows only) emulator specifically for LucasArts SCUMM games
   https://aarongiles.com/dreamm/

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jun-2022 21:58:25 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • jec

     @jec https://aarongiles.com/dreamm/#faq

   • jec (jec@social.alesan.io)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jun-2022 21:58:31 UTC jec

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     @dosnostalgic But we already have ScummVM ...?
   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jun-2022 10:15:54 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • root42

     @root42 It's an actual machine emulator. ScummVM isn't.

   • root42 (root42@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jun-2022 10:15:56 UTC root42

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     @dosnostalgic Is this written from scratch, i.e. without ScummVM code? Also, I wish someone would make a SCUMM interpreter for old, OCS Amigas, at least for the older games up to Monkey2/Indy4. The ports by Lucasfilm back then were not good...

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jun-2022 13:40:13 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • root42

     @root42 This guy wrote an OPL2 emulator for Mac in the 90s, just so Dark Forces on a Mac would sound the same as on the bare bones PC. He's got 30 years of experience of porting things to other platforms (which I still believe is his occupation, as well as being a big contributor to MAME). I don't have a reason to doubt him.

   • root42 (root42@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jun-2022 13:40:15 UTC root42

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     @dosnostalgic Oh I see. I also foresee that Mr Giles will get some problems if he doesn't share source code. I assume that he is using some open source libraries or projects in there -- or maybe I am mistaken. However I doubt he wrote a DOS & Win32 emulation layer from scratch, together with all the other emulated hardware -- but of course I could be wrong, and maybe he did! I can see people writing their own emulators, but the scope that his project covers seems HUGE.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jun-2022 14:23:17 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • root42

     @root42 Oh, and I guess I also have to mention the guy worked on VirtualPC.