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WOW! It's been a year since I last posted here, but there hasn't been much of interest to talk about. At least, nothing I'm ready to share just yet. But now it looks like ScummVM and DOSBox are facing some competition on the SCUMMy side. DREAMM (DOS Retro Emulation Arena for Maniac Mansion) is...

I've just been informed on Mixnmojo of a set of utilities called Nutcracker. It's a set of tools for editing resources in SCUMM games. Its decompiler outputs code that very closely matches that of the original SCUMM syntax, as shown in the official SCUMM documentation. If this were an IDE, it'd...

The decompilations for Maniac Mansion V1 and V2 are complete. All that is needed are comments describing what is going on. Next up, Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders!

Here's my first SCUMM-related discovery! One of the things you need to keep track of in Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders is your characters' CashCard balance. Just like reality! The best way for Zak to replenish his savings is to play the lottery, which only he can do. You can rig the...