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ScummVM ported to HTML5 - play old games in your browser
- wingi 13y agoOld Sierra games are availble with HTML5 at http://sarien.net/ http://sarien.net/ - is the html5 ScrummVM really new? http://mikeconley.ca/blog/2012/01/08/monkey-island-1-the-secret-of-monkey-island-running-via-javascript/ http://mikeconley.ca/blog/2012/01/08/monkey-island-1-the-sec...
- pygy_ 13y agoThe port you link to is a rewrite in JavaScript[0], while this is the original ScummVM code, compiled with Emscripten. [0] https://github.com/mutle/jsscummvm https://github.com/mutle/jsscummvm
- shawndumas 13y agoI truly hope this does not become the highest voted post on this thread. I sometimes feel like HN is chock full of people that tend to become absorbed with minutia and details that most would not normally consider important. So it's not completely, wholly, and totally new... big deal. For my edification could you explain to me why this gets your goat?
- danso 13y agoNo no no, the GP was absolutely the question I was thinking -- and I'm sure others too, because a HtML5 JS port has been done before and was well-voted on by HN. But the GP's question brought out the real answer of how this is new, and the detail is interesting to web devs
- shawndumas 13y ago"No no no" -- great start. "the GP was absolutely the question I was thinking -- and I'm sure others too" -- which was my point; chock full. "the GP's question brought out the real answer of how this is new" -- and the person that elucidated you found out his information how? Yes, that's right... he looked at the site. Could we quit it with the knee jerk negativism? Please and thanks.
- danso 13y agoSorry I was on a tablet when I typed that response (I've given up on stylistic punctuation in that situation, such as: "No, no, no."). Also, being on a tablet I presumed that I wouldn't be able to get it working in the first place, and others had already commented on the site being brought down by the traffic...and to be honest, unless the OP writes it out explicitly in the landing page, I wouldn't have know that the emscripten version was different than the past version. This isn't negativity, quite the opposite. It's very exciting to see this kind of application done with different approaches.
- gruseom 13y agodanso's comment didn't seem negative to me ("no no no" is just colloquial). This comment does, though.
- Dylan16807 13y agoYour last line is the only really negative thing in the entire thread.
- Diamons 13y ago@Shawndumas One thing I prefer on HN over Reddit is the mature and appropriate responses. Please keep the ostracization to a minimum.
- pygy_ 13y agoIt is off course down. From the little I could see through the Google cache, the port is based on Emscripten. The site provides the demo versions of a few SCUMM games.
- shacharz 13y agois there a link to a source?
- kshahar 13y agohttps://github.com/juj/emscripten-scummvm https://github.com/juj/emscripten-scummvm
- culshaw 13y agoPower switch doesn't work plz fix.
- marcosscriven 13y agoSo much is converted to Javascript with Emscripten now. I used it for http://www.fabfabbers.com/openscad/ http://www.fabfabbers.com/openscad/ too. Just hoping asm.js support catches on.
- Dejital 13y agoMonkey Island 2: Lechuck's Revenge had a great demo as well. I might recommend adding that.
- zaf 13y agoExcellent project! Graphics for Monkey Island in Safari on a Mac seem to be corrupted.
- marcosscriven 13y agoIt's corrupted on Safari on iPad too. Works really well in Firefox nightly.
- shmerl 13y agoIt should add an option to add your own game. Also would be interesting to make it a Firefox OS application.
- ISL 13y agoAwesome! The future rolls on. Thanks! This message for anyone who frantically dug through the box for Disk 22, confusedly hoping to find it among the ~6 installation disks [1]: I excitedly clicked through, hoping, jonesing, for the Monkey Island theme. Alas, sound doesn't seem to work for me (Chromium 26, Debian). If you needed the same fix, you can find it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IOL4q5tDDQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IOL4q5tDDQ [1]: http://www.miwiki.net/The_Stump_Joke http://www.miwiki.net/The_Stump_Joke
- kaoD 13y agoThe sound worked for me and it's a quite different version (a beta score?) compared to the one we're used to. I guess these demos were released halfway through the development, hence the weird setting, different music, etc. PS: your link led me to Grim Fandango's OST. OMG, what a great game and OST.
- makmanalp 13y agoSound missing for me too, Chrome Version 27.0.1453.93 on OSX
- LaSombra 13y agoSound is working fine on Firefox 21 on Linux (Fedora 19 x86_64)
- juandopazo 13y agoI've been wondering when some old games would be ported to JS via Emscripten. Now ScummVM is in the browser! What I'd love to see next is OpenTTD!
- b0b_d0e 13y agoNot too surprisingly, that's already been done. http://play-ttd.com/ http://play-ttd.com/ Additionally I think this has been around for about a year at this point :)
- juandopazo 13y agoWoah! That's super awesome! Thanks!
- altrego99 13y agoCool! I think the day is not far when we will see DosBox ported to HTML5 as well.
- etjossem 13y agoI'd love to see Beneath a Steel Sky in HTML5 form. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneath_a_Steel_Sky http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneath_a_Steel_Sky http://www.gog.com/gamecard/beneath_a_steel_sky http://www.gog.com/gamecard/beneath_a_steel_sky
- TazeTSchnitzel 13y agoIt's supported by ScummVM (name is deceptive, supports far, far more than just SCUMM), so the module for that game could surely be compiled.
- etjossem 13y agoNote: http://www.revolution.co.uk/ http://www.revolution.co.uk/ made a remastered edition, so I'm not sure of the legal status of the game (i.e. if any demo or full versions are available for projects like this).
- pygy_ 13y agoThe original PC versions can be downloaded legally from the ScummVM web site, along with Lure of the Temptress. You can also download Flight of the Amazon Queen, Dreamweb, Drascula and Slotys (from other editors). At least one Revolution programmer is also a ScummVM contributor, BTW. http://www.scummvm.org/downloads/#extras http://www.scummvm.org/downloads/#extras
- thristian 13y agoActually, Broken Sword I & II aren't free downloads; the downloads on ScummVM's pages contain the games' cutscenes transcoded from Bink Video to MPEG2. It turns out that unlike many of the technologies ScummVM reverse-engineers and reimplements, the Bink video codec is still commercially available, and the Bink people refused to let ScummVM release their reverse-enigneered decoder. So, if you want cutscenes in Broken Sword games, you need to download them in a format that ScummVM can decode.
- kriro 13y agoUhhhhh this is excellent. Love me some adventure games.
- TazeTSchnitzel 13y agoScummVM supports Myst. Now that would be interesting in a browser.