The year is 1685. The place is Versailles. Somebody has threatened to burn the castle and Alexandre Bontemps, the Premier valet of King Louis XIV, is asking for your help. You have until the end of the day to investigate and save the castle. The ScummVM team is proud to announce support for Cryo's Versaille 1685 game and needs your help to test the game. Grab your copy of Versailles 1685 (the DOS, Windows, and Macintosh versions are supported), download the [latest development build](https://buildbot.scummvm.org/#/snapshots) of ScummVM, and start exploring the castle and its surroundings. While you do so, please report any bugs you find on our [issue tracker](https://bugs.scummvm.org) and take [screenshots](https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=Screenshots) of interesting places.
The ScummVM team is thrilled to announce support for one of John Romero’s creations, the game *Hyperspace Delivery Boy!* All known versions are supported, including Linux, Windows and PocketPC. If you don’t own a copy, you can get the demo from our [demos section](/demos/) So grab your copy of the game and help us with testing it using the [latest development build](https://buildbot.scummvm.org/#/snapshots) of ScummVM. If your version of the game is not recognized or if you find any bugs, please report them on our [issue tracker](https://bugs.scummvm.org). And as always, have fun!
A long time ago, in 2013, Kamil Zbróg and Łukasz Wątka, a GSoC student, were working on support for the game *The Prince and the Coward* or *Książę i Tchórz*, as it was called originally in Polish. The game engine sat in limbo, however, because we were trying to work on the English translation. Unfortunately, that work is only about ¼th done, and we need your help. Nevertheless, we would like to announce support for this game. All released versions are supported, including Polish original, German release and the Russian translation. Take your copy of the game and give it a try. You will need a [daily development build](https://buildbot.scummvm.org/#/snapshots) for that. As always, please submit the bug reports to our [issue tracker](https://bugs.scummvm.org/). Also, if you happen to know Polish, German, or Russian, you are welcome to help us with the translation. The short instructions are provided [here](https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=Prince#Translation). Powodzenia!
We need you! Join the Supernova crew for an unforgettable journey to witness the death of a star. Have you ever dreamed of becoming an astronaut? Being abandoned on your own on a broken spaceship? Dying asphyxiated? Being electrocuted? Being shot at? Getting lost in a pyramid? Being caught stealing a dinosaur's head and being sent to prison? And if that is not enough you can even disable the improved mode in ScummVM and experience the frustration of clicking and pointing your way through a twenty-five years old computer game. We are proud to announce that *Mission Supernova Teil 1: Das Schicksal des Horst Hummel* and *Mission Supernova Teil 2: Der Doppelgänger* are now both supported in ScummVM. In addition we have also translated both games to English and you can decide to play either in German or English. The games can be downloaded for free [on the developer's website](http://outpost.simplicity.de/), so you have no reason not to play it! Please help us test the games and report any bugs or translation issue you find on [our issue tracker](https://bugs.scummvm.org/). You will need [a recent version of ScummVM](https://buildbot.scummvm.org/#/snapshots) and [the supernova.dat file](https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/blob/master/dists/engine-data/supernova.dat) (if it is not included in the ScummVM package for your platform). You can also see some basic information on the game controls [on our wiki](https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=Mission_Supernova#Controls) or access the game manual in game using the F2 key.
The time has finally come to start the release cycle for ScummVM 2.1.0. The release is going to be big, and these new games require testing: **Blade Runner.* **Hoyle Bridge.* **Hoyle Children's Collection.* **Hoyle Classic Games.* **Hoyle Solitaire.* **Hyperspace Delivery Boy!* **Might and Magic IV - Clouds of Xeen.* **Might and Magic V - Darkside of Xeen.* **Might and Magic - World of Xeen.* **Might and Magic - World of Xeen 2 CD Talkie.* **Might and Magic - Swords of Xeen.* **Mission Supernova Part 1.* **Mission Supernova Part 2.* **Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness.* **The Prince and the Coward.* **Versailles 1685.* Also, with this release, we are finally enabling cloud support for save games and game data. So far, it works only on desktops, you may find a description of this feature in [our User Manual](https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=User_Manual/Using_Cloud_and_LAN_features). The complete list of the games that require testing for this release can be found on [our Wiki](https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=Release_Testing/2.1.0). Please use a [stable daily build](https://buildbot.scummvm.org/#/snapshots) of ScummVM for testing. In case you encounter any bugs, there is a place for them to be reported at our [issue tracker](https://bugs.scummvm.org/). Additionally, please track your progress [on the forum thread](https://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=14945) so we can cross the tested game titles out on the wiki. Make sure to follow our guidelines for release testing which can be found [here](https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=Release_Testing). It would be great if you could help with updating the ScummVM GUI translations. The description of the steps you need to follow is on [the Wiki](https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=HOWTO-Translate_ScummVM_GUI).
*Duckman: The Graphic Adventures of a Private Dick* is an obscure point and click game based on the TV show of the same name. You control the wise cracking detective Duckman as he attempts to regain his identity after being unceremoniously dumped from his own TV show. The game's release for Windows in 1997 unfortunately coincided with the TV show being cancelled, which limited the distribution of the game. After a long time in development, the ScummVM team is happy to announce support for the game. Make sure to grab [a recent build](https://buildbot.scummvm.org/#/snapshots) and give it a try. Please report any bugs that you find to [our issue tracker](https://bugs.scummvm.org/). The English, German and Demo versions are supported. You just need the DATA/ directory from the original game to play.
"Animal sales was a profitable and prestigious business, since most real animals had died out after the Terran War; there were plenty of electric ones, though—" Oh, ahem, didn’t notice you there. ScummVM Team is thrilled to announce the release of ScummVM version 2.1.0. This release is the culmination of nearly two years worth of work, adding 16 new games based on 8 engines, a Nintendo Switch port and nearly 500 bug fixes. All this done by the hard work of 147 contributors across 8,493 commits. The newly supported games are: **Blade Runner* **Duckman: The Graphic Adventures of a Private Dick* **Hoyle Bridge* **Hoyle Children's Collection* **Hoyle Classic Games* **Hoyle Solitaire* **Hyperspace Delivery Boy!* **Might and Magic IV - Clouds of Xeen* **Might and Magic V - Darkside of Xeen* **Might and Magic - World of Xeen* **Might and Magic - Swords of Xeen* **Mission Supernova Part 1* **Mission Supernova Part 2* **Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness* **The Prince and the Coward* **Versailles 1685* In addition, we enhanced the Android and iOS ports considerably. You will also notice the new GUI facelift, improved Roland MT-32 sound emulation, a new pixel-perfect stretching mode, Text-to-Speech support on macOS and Linux, and last but not least, support for synchronizing saves and downloading game data from cloud-based file services (see the up-to-date list of the platforms in [our user manual](https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=User_Manual/Using_Cloud_and_LAN_features)) As usual, we have improved many of the existing engines: added support for the *25th Myst Anniversary* releases, fixed more than 100 original SCI script bugs that have plagued Sierra games for decades, added support for Amiga and FM-TOWNS versions of *Eye of the Beholder*, improved audio quality in Humongous Entertainment games and added lip sync to the newer LucasArts adventure titles, squashed tons of bugs in *Starship Titanic* and *Bud Tucker*. The list goes on and on, and you may see the comprehensive change log [here](https://downloads.scummvm.org/frs/scummvm/2.1.0/ReleaseNotes.html). Have no more tears in rain and [grab](/downloads/) this electric release. Windows and macOS users may get the auto-update when starting ScummVM.
We are thrilled to announce that the *Blade Runner* point and click adventure game, developed by Westwood Studios and originally released in 1997, is [now available again for purchase](http://gog.com/game/blade_runner?pp=22d200f8670dbdb3e253a90eee5098477c95c23d), thanks to the efforts of GOG.com. This new digitally distributed version includes the officially dubbed versions of the game (English, French, Italian, Spanish and German). Of course, it runs on top of ScummVM, which means it contains various bug fixes and quality of life improvements (like mouse-scrolling in KIA and fan made subtitles support) over the original 1997 version of the game. You will find subtitles for the English and French versions of the game on the Games section of the ScummVM website. We still have plans to complete the restored content version for the game, which is built from content and code segments that are already in the game’s resources but left unused or untriggered. PS. If you use the link above we will get a commission from your purchase.
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Release of ScummVM 2.1.1 "":More Sheep:""
After a short break, the ScummVM Team is pleased to announce a bugfix release for the 2.1 series - ScummVM 2.1.1, codenamed “:More Sheep:”. This release contains a substantial amount of fixes and minor enhancements. The most notable ones are: better multi-language support in the GUI, improvements in FM TOWNS/PC-98 audio, optimisations of the cloud saves, a couple dozen SCI script fixes, improvements to Blade Runner and fixes to another 7 engines. Also, this is the first release with official support for the Nintendo 3DS. Additionally, we added cloud support to the Nintendo Switch port. For a more comprehensive list of changes, please refer to the [Release Notes](https://downloads.scummvm.org/frs/scummvm/2.1.1/ReleaseNotes.html). As always, the set of pre-built executables can be found at our [downloads page](/downloads/). Enjoy, and have fun!
 It is the 14th time when ScummVM is accepted as an organization for Google Summer of Code, and we're going with our sister project ResidualVM. The Summer of Code is a yearly event organized by Google to encourage students to contribute to open source projects. Open source organizations provide mentors and projects to work on, while Google give some money to participating students. You can find more information on the [official web site](https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com). We also have some information on [our wiki](http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Summer_of_Code), and in particular [project rules](http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Summer_of_Code/Project_Rules) that applicants will need to follow. If you feel adventurous, and would like to contribute to one of the largest game preservation projects, we are eagerly waiting for you! Have a look at [our ideas page](http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Summer_of_Code/GSoC_Ideas_2020). Of course, you are also very welcome to bring your own idea (though it must be our projects-related)! The deadline for the student proposals is March 31st, and on April 27th accepted students will be announced. You are welcome to join [our Discord server](https://discord.gg/4cDsMNtcpG) and ask any questions of #scummvm-gsoc channel. Looking forward to your applications!
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ScummVM 2.1.2 ""Fixing Powerful Windows"" is here!
