This isn’t the scum John Walsh keeps talking about; this is ScummVM — the Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion Virtual Machine. And you’re not limited to just Maniac Mansion; I’m talking Sam & Max, Zak McKracken, Monkey Island… The list goes on and on… Check out the ScummVM compatibility list right here for all those memorable titles.

Quoting the ScummVM Team:

It is the usual stable and supported release so don’t let the name of ‘Release Candidate’ or ‘RC1′ throw you off, however we encourage you to test thoroughly. We have a release testing wiki page, which we would like to see turn into a mass of green indicating successful removal of any issues in the titles supported, and thus we need your help, our dear users of ScummVM. It would be really great to test as many games as possible on all variety platforms our project is ported to.

So what’s new? Well this marks the 1st release candidate for the big 1.0.0.

• Added support for Discworld
• Added support for Discworld 2 – Missing Presumed …!?
• Added support for Return to Zork
• Added support for Leather Goddesses of Phobos 2
• Added support for The Manhole
• Added support for Rodney’s Funscreen
• Added support for Cruise for a Corpse
• Improved GUI vastly: added quick search, introduced per-game options, improved mass-add dialog
• Broken Sword 1 & 2 now run with original cutscenes
• Increased The 7th Guest microscope puzzle difficulty to match original
• Major improvements to PSP, PS2 and WinCE ports
• New port for GP2X Wiz handheld game console.

Please report any issues here.

Download: ScummVM 1.0.0 RC1

- source: scummvm