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We are very excited to announce support for ScummVM on Linux using Kinect!
Through the tireless efforts of a few coders, Strangerke, LordHoto, and Hkz, they have managed to come up with an amazing per-game gesture system. This new Kinect input system recognizes player input and translates it to mouse and keyboard presses which are then processed by the game engine. Unfortunately, this currently only works with the Kinect for Linux drivers. The code is still very much a work-in-progress, but we've put up some screenshots of various developers testing out their favorite games in ScummVM. Here's [ST testing out *Backyard Soccer*](/data/news/20110401_1.jpg), [myself playing *Full Throttle*](/data/news/20110401_2.jpg), [Hkz playing *Gabriel Knight*](/data/news/20110401_3.jpg), and [DrMcCoy playing *Urban Runner*](/data/news/20110401_4.jpg). Stay tuned for more info and a daily build should be expected within the next few days! :) **Happy April Fools' Day!** |
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A New Month, A New Engine!
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Continuing our incredible pace of one announcement per month, we're proud to be able to ask you to grab your copies of [Hugo's trilogy](http://www.mobygames.com/game-group/hugo-series) (DOS or Windows version) and try them out in ScummVM using the [latest daily build](/downloads/#daily).
The games supported (Hugo's House of Horror, Hugo 2: Whodunit? and Hugo 3: Jungle of Doom) are still available for sale on the [author's site](http://www.dgray.com/hwpage.htm). So buy them if you don't own them, copy the [required data files](http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Datafiles#Hugo.27s_House_of_Horrors) and give them a try! Don't hesitate to report any bugs you find in the [bugtracker](http://bugs.scummvm.org/), following our bug submission [guidelines](/faq/#question.report-bugs). [Screenshots](http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Screenshots#How_to_make_screenshots) are welcome too, as usual! |
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Get Ready for Testing!
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The ScummVM team is announcing another round of release testing in preparation for our next release: 1.3.0!
Since our last release, we've been very busy working on adding support for more of your favorite games. *Backyard Baseball*. *Backyard Baseball 2001*, *Hugo's House of Horrors*, *Hugo 2: Whodunit?*, *Hugo 3: Jungle of Doom*, *Playtoons: Bambou le Sauveur de la Jungle*, *Toonstruck*, and *Urban Runner* are all ready for our loyal fans to play through to their hearts' content. Several Living Books games are also supported now: *Aesop's Fables: The Tortoise and the Hare*, *Arthur's Birthday* (v1), *Arthur's Teacher Trouble*, *Dr. Seuss's ABC*, *Green Eggs and Ham*, *Harry and the Haunted House*, *Just Grandma and Me* (v1), *Little Monster at School*, *Ruff's Bone*, *Sheila Rae, the Brave*, *Stellaluna*, *The Berenstain Bears Get in a Fight*, *The Berenstain Bears in the Dark*, *The New Kid on the Block*. You can see more info on the bugs we fixed and the features we added over [here](https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/raw/master/NEWS). Like with our last release testing, not all games will be tested; only games that have had significant changes to their codebase since the last release are up for testing. As usual, the list of games to be tested is on the [wiki](http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Release_Testing/1.3.0). Those games aren't going to test themselves! Download a [daily build](/downloads/#daily) and report any bugs you find to the [bug tracker](http://bugs.scummvm.org/). If you complete a game, please let us know on [the forums](http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=10173) so we can throw the results up on the [wiki page](http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Release_Testing/1.3.0). Be sure to provide the version, language, and platform of your game when reporting a completion. Any other questions? Go check out the [release testing guidelines](http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Release_Testing). |
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It has been longer than usual since the last release. Nevertheless the team is happy to announce the release of ScummVM 1.3.0.
The release is truly feature-rich: in particular we are introducing support for a new platform, WebOS, and adding a set of new games: *Urban Runner*, *Playtoons*, *Toonstruck*, *Hugo* series, *Living Books*, *Backyard Baseball*. We have also continued to work hard on the SCI engine, so Amiga and some Macintosh versions of the games are supported now too. Many of our ports received improvements, and a number of bugs have been fixed in practically every engine. Thus your gameplay should be smoother and more enjoyable. As usual, the release can be found on our [downloads page](/downloads/) and [full release notes](https://downloads.scummvm.org/frs/scummvm/1.3.0/ReleaseNotes) are also available. |
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"This arrow is ..quite annoying..."
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These are amongst the last words of Timothy, one of your friends; But when the Dark Army is on the march, there is no time for mourning the dead. Time is essential in the race against the evil sorceress Scotia, so you had better continue your journey to save the realm of Gladstone.
The ScummVM Team is pleased to announce support for [Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos](http://www.mobygames.com/game/lands-of-lore-the-throne-of-chaos). So grab your copy of the DOS Floppy, DOS CD or even the PC-98 version and start playing Lands of Lore in the [latest daily build](/downloads/#daily) of ScummVM and help us with the testing, while enjoying this great game. A quick side note: Unlike other ScummVM supported adventure games, Lands of Lore is an RPG (Role Playing Game). We are supporting it as it uses the same engine (KYRA) as The Legend of Kyrandia series. Please do not ask us to support other RPGs! Of course, all bugs should be reported to [our bug tracker](http://bugs.scummvm.org/). However, please make sure you have got all the required [datafiles](http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Datafiles#Lands_of_Lore:_The_Throne_of_Chaos) before you report a bug. For further information, check out the [bug submission guidelines](/faq/#question.report-bugs). Happy dungeon crawling! |
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We are proud to announce a maintenance release of the ScummVM 1.3.x series. This release has a number of fixes, mainly related to audio. Also, several games had slipped past testing for 1.3.0 and turned out to be no longer completable. They have now been fixed, so if you want to play *Discworld*, *Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb*, *I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream*, or play FM-TOWNS SCUMM games on mobile devices or consoles, we highly recommend that you upgrade.
The release can be found on our [downloads page](/downloads/) and [full release notes](https://downloads.scummvm.org/frs/scummvm/1.3.1/ReleaseNotes) are also available from our site. Enjoy! |
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No, it's not Tolkien's Ring, it's the Ringworld. Join Quinn, Miranda, and Seeker-of-Vengeance as they seek to unravel the mysteries of the Ringworld and find a way to stop the insane Kzinti Patriarch.
The ScummVM Team is pleased to announce support for [Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch](http://www.mobygames.com/game/ringworld-revenge-of-the-patriarch). So grab your copy of the DOS Floppy or CD (original CD release/First Wave re-release), start playing in the [latest daily build](/downloads/#daily) of ScummVM, and help us with the testing while enjoying this classic science fiction adventure. Of course, all bugs should be reported to [our bug tracker](http://bugs.scummvm.org/). For further information, check out the [bug submission guidelines](/faq/#question.report-bugs). Good luck finding the elusive stasis boxes. |
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Prepare ship for ludicrous testing speed!
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Fasten your seatbelts because another ScummVM release is just around the corner!
However, we need *your* help first in testing out a few games before we can release. In addition to the two new games for this release, *Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos* and *Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch*, we have a few other games that need testing. Please take a look at [our wiki page](http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Release_Testing/1.4.0) to see which games need a playthrough. As with all release testing, you'll need a [daily build](/downloads/#daily) to get started. If you happen to find any bugs, please report them on the [bug tracker](http://bugs.scummvm.org/). Once you complete one of the games, please let us know on [the forums](http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=10901) so we can throw the results up on the [wiki page](http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Release_Testing/1.4.0). Further information can be found in the [release testing guidelines](http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Release_Testing). And Strangerke would like to remind you to grab a couple of screenshots of *Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos* and *Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch* for us and submit them according to our [guidelines](http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Screenshots). |
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GSoC 2011 — Results
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 This year, two students were accepted for ScummVM:
* Jussi Pitkanen (Tiqpit) * [Engin Manap](http://enginmanap.blogspot.com/) (Enginmanap). Tiqpit worked on improving the AGI Engine. Sadly, he decided to quit before the end of his tasks, but his code was of such good quality that it is now merged into master, so ScummVM benefits from his work. Enginmanap worked on objectifying the CruisE engine. He did a great job, and his work is currently being polished before a final merge into master. We were also represented at the mentor summit by sev and Strangerke. We are really grateful to Google for all of their support, and are already working on GSoC 2012 tasks. |
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It has been over 10 years. We are here thanks to the work of 131 developers. 49,124 commits were made just to the ScummVM tree and those turned into a massive 1,085,714 lines of code (excluding comments) and of course over 7.6 million downloads from the main site alone. I would say those were a great ten years.
The outcome is ScummVM 1.4.0 which we are releasing today, 11/11/11 11:11:11.11. More games are supported: *Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos*(based on the same engine as Kyrandia), the kids' game *Blue's Birthday Adventure*, and the science fiction game *Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch*. On top of that, practically all supported Sierra SCI games now have their Amiga versions working. Our musically inclined users will notice PC speaker support in *Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge* and *Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis*, CMS support in *Loom*, *The Secret of Monkey Island* and *Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade*, fixed MIDI in the DOS versions of the Elvira series, and even sound in *Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood*! As always, there are many more new features; you can find the full list in [our release notes](https://downloads.scummvm.org/frs/scummvm/1.4.0/ReleaseNotes) and the release itself on our [downloads page](/downloads/). Enjoy! |
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The developers of ScummVM are pleased to announce that as of today, the classic game *Beneath A Steel Sky* has full support for [James Woodcock's Music Enhancement Project](http://www.jameswoodcock.co.uk/?page_id=54) within the latest daily build. The project started way back in January 2006 as [James Woodcock](http://www.jameswoodcock.co.uk/) committed himself to use the original MIDI files from various Point and Click Adventure titles, creating enhanced versions using modern MIDI equipment. He has already released the *[Simon the Sorcerer](http://www.jameswoodcock.co.uk/?p=956)*, *[Discworld](http://www.jameswoodcock.co.uk/?p=1958)* and *[Inherit the Earth](http://www.jameswoodcock.co.uk/?p=1935)* versions and can now add *[Beneath A Steel Sky](http://www.jameswoodcock.co.uk/?p=7695)* to his completion list:
"I have tried very hard to remain faithful to the originals in respect to the excellent composers creations..." says James Woodcock, creator of the ScummVM Music Enhancement Project. He continues "...There has been a lot of support and interest from Beneath A Steel Sky fans, who have been monitoring its progress very carefully and it is with great pleasure I can finally play *Beneath A Steel Sky* using new versions of the original soundtrack with many thanks to the developers of ScummVM for all their hard work in making this feature possible". James uses the Yamaha Tyros4 keyboard hooked up to his computer via USB and after going through various tweaking, recording and editing, a finalised music track is born. You can download the enhanced soundtrack from James' *[Beneath A Steel Sky](http://www.jameswoodcock.co.uk/?p=7695)* page, where instructions are also included. You can follow and show your support for James on both [Twitter](https://twitter.com/jameswoodcock) and [Facebook](http://www.facebook.com/pages/James-Woodcock/198209883548095). |
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Chief finally found a husband for his "beautiful" daughter, but before the end of the ceremony, Leon escaped. So now... where is Leon?
The ScummVM Team is proud to announce that [Soltys](http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/sotys) is playable for the first time in English and Polish using ScummVM! Special thanks to L.K. Avalon and Mr Wiśniewski for providing the sources and to nutron for spending so much time on the translation! You'll need a daily build to get started, then grab the game on our [downloads page](/downloads/#extras) and test it! As usual, all bugs should be reported to [our bug tracker](http://bugs.scummvm.org/) following our [bug submission guidelines](/faq/#question.report-bugs). While you play through the game, we would love it if you could take some [screenshots](http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Screenshots) for us. If you would like to contribute further, you could invest some of your free time in translating Soltys and Dragon History, which should be easy to translate to most European-based languages. If you are interested, please contact [translation AT scummvm DOT org](mailto:translation%20AT%20scummvm%20DOT%20org). |
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Jump on a Hot Air Balloon and meet Darby the Dragon!
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Take a little break and compose yourself. After tireless weeks of work, the ScummVM team is proud to announce support for two children's adventure games — *Gregory and the Hot Air Balloon* and *Darby the Dragon* — And on top of that, you can also play some interactive books from the *Magic Tales* series. So, if you can find your childhood spirit, dig out your copies and enjoy those adorable games.
To play these, you'll need a [daily build](/downloads/#daily) of ScummVM. Any lurking bugs you find should be reported using our [bug tracker](http://bugs.scummvm.org/), and along the way, please consider making few screenshots, following our [guidelines](http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Screenshots). We are also looking for additional information on localised versions and *Magic Tales* books. If you have one which is not recognized by the latest ScummVM daily build, please follow the guidelines [here](http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Reporting_unknown_MD5_checksums) and report this to the team or as a bug. Have fun! |
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May The Force Be With You
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