ScummVM ported to HTML5 - play old games in your browser

http://clb.demon.fi/html5scummvm/

by shawndumas • 13 years ago

203 34 13 years ago

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wingi• 13 years ago

Old Sierra games are availble with HTML5 at http://sarien.net/ - is the html5 ScrummVM really new?

http://mikeconley.ca/blog/2012/01/08/monkey-island-1-the-sec...

pygy_4• 13 years ago

The 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

shawndumas2• 13 years ago

I 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?

danso2• 13 years ago

No 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

pygy_4• 13 years ago

It 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• 13 years ago

is there a link to a source?

kshahar• 13 years ago

https://github.com/juj/emscripten-scummvm

culshaw• 13 years ago

Power switch doesn't work plz fix.

marcosscriven2• 13 years ago

So much is converted to Javascript with Emscripten now. I used it for http://www.fabfabbers.com/openscad/ too.

Just hoping asm.js support catches on.

Dejital• 13 years ago

Monkey Island 2: Lechuck's Revenge had a great demo as well. I might recommend adding that.

zaf• 13 years ago

Excellent project!

Graphics for Monkey Island in Safari on a Mac seem to be corrupted.

marcosscriven2• 13 years ago

It's corrupted on Safari on iPad too. Works really well in Firefox nightly.

shmerl• 13 years ago

It should add an option to add your own game. Also would be interesting to make it a Firefox OS application.

ISL• 13 years ago

Awesome! 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

[1] http://www.miwiki.net/The_Stump_Joke

kaoD• 13 years ago

The 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• 13 years ago

Sound missing for me too, Chrome Version 27.0.1453.93 on OSX

LaSombra• 13 years ago

Sound is working fine on Firefox 21 on Linux (Fedora 19 x86_64)

juandopazo2• 13 years ago

I'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• 13 years ago

Not too surprisingly, that's already been done. http://play-ttd.com/ Additionally I think this has been around for about a year at this point :)

juandopazo2• 13 years ago

Woah! That's super awesome! Thanks!

altrego99• 13 years ago

Cool! I think the day is not far when we will see DosBox ported to HTML5 as well.

etjossem2• 13 years ago

I'd love to see Beneath a Steel Sky in HTML5 form.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneath_a_Steel_Sky

http://www.gog.com/gamecard/beneath_a_steel_sky

TazeTSchnitzel2• 13 years ago

It's supported by ScummVM (name is deceptive, supports far, far more than just SCUMM), so the module for that game could surely be compiled.

etjossem2• 13 years ago

Note: 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).

kriro• 13 years ago

Uhhhhh this is excellent. Love me some adventure games.

TazeTSchnitzel2• 13 years ago

ScummVM supports Myst. Now that would be interesting in a browser.

ScummVM ported to HTML5 - play old games in your browser

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