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Considering how easy it is to emulate Graphic Adventures thanks to ScummVM, I doubt releasing the source code would impact the sales in any shape or form. Peopl
by lnrd 3y ago
Considering how easy it is to emulate Graphic Adventures thanks to ScummVM, I doubt releasing the source code would impact the sales in any shape or form. People that want to play for free already have the easiest life possible. I think it's one of those cases where emulating is as much convenient as grabbing a copy on Steam.
You rise a good point. After X years releasing the code of many things would benefit the public so much without hurting at all the owners, are there movements about this concept?
- madmoose 3y agoScummVM is not emulation, it's primarily a collection of reimplementations of game engines based on reverse engineering, with the occasional donation of original source code from the developers. So with ScummVM you can study how the original SCUMM virtual machine worked, but to see the original SCUMM scripts before they were compiled we have to rely on the kindness of Ron Gilbert :)
- account42 3y agoEmulation doesn't mean just hardware emulation even if some die-hards might want it to. Certainly not in colloquial usage. ScummVM in particular started out as an interpreter for SCUMM bytecode, emulating the original interpreter that ships with the games. It's as much as an emulator for those games as WinE is a Windows Emulator - that is, saying so will make some people upset but being upset does not make them right.