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[A. J. Raffles]

I think you'll find that you'll struggle with running a DOS-game which is nearly 15 years old on a new computer... As you're using DOSBox, I'm guessing that you're not completely averse to using emulators, so why are you so averse to ScummVM?

[Laukku]

A. J. Raffles, on Oct 5 2009, 09:38 AM, said:

I think you'll find that you'll struggle with running a DOS-game which is nearly 15 years old on a new computer... As you're using DOSBox, I'm guessing that you're not completely averse to using emulators, so why are you so averse to ScummVM?

Oh, emulators are perfectly fine - I have dozens of DOS games that I often play using DOSBox. It's just that I don't want to install other DOS emulators for single special cases. And it's nice to have all my DOS games on a single virtual drive, ready to be played through DOSBox. ScummVM is just another alternative that supports just a handful of games.

Also, I dislike how ScummVM uses its own menu instead of the games' own. I posted my opinion on the menu on Abandonia, where I originally posted my issue:

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It's not very faithful to how the games were supposed to run... in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, you can save/load when you are not supposed to, and ScummVM's GUI won't show the IQ points. Plus, the GUI is a big "YOU ARE PLAYING THIS THROUGH SCUMMVM" self-reference. And the original GUIs enhance the retro atmosphere.