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[eruthros]

ScummVM, how do I love thee? Though thy documentation could be better, yea verily.

See, just a soundblaster emulator can't get the monster.sou speech files from SCUMM-based games to work properly, and you get all this screechiness and bleh. ScummVM, otoh, emulates just perfectly once you figure it out (though you have to do your own futzing with the .ini file) and now I am playing Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis and ScummVM can make Kyrandia play too and... Kyrandia! It has been so long! (This comes up because many of my old early-90s SCUMM-based games were on 5 inch floppy, and so naturally they are unplayable now, but someone in Philly was getting rid of the CD-Rom versions of same, and now I have Maniac Mansion and Sam and Max and Monkey Island the first and Day of the Tentacle and Fate of Atlantis and other things yay.)

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[casirafics.livejournal.com]

I actually kept my old G3 expressly because my old LucasArts games don't work under Classic. I couldn't give up my Sam & Max and Afterlife and Monkey Island and all that other goodness!

[eruthros]

I would have kept my DOS/Win 3.1 system, but it was a) dying and b) so old I couldn't get a motherboard for it, so. ScummVM works just as well, and lets you play AND check your email on the same machine :)