ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed!

Some of the adventures ScummVM supports include Adventure Soft’s Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2; Revolution’s Beneath A Steel Sky, Broken Sword 1 and Broken Sword 2; Flight of the Amazon Queen; Wyrmkeep’s Inherit the Earth; Coktel Vision’s Gobliiins; Westwood Studios’ The Legend of Kyrandia and games based on LucasArts’ SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) system such as Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max and more. You can find a thorough list with details on which games are supported and how well on the compatibility page. ScummVM is continually improving, so check back often.

Release notes:

As we turned to a 6 months release cycle, here is our newest and best ScummVM version for you!

A couple of new engines were added, and besides 2 Humongous Entertainment titles, we now support The 7th Guest and Bud Tucker in Double Trouble.

Among other notable things there is a completely new vector-based GUI, which is a merged work of our last year GSoC student Vicent Marti, as well as a General Main Menu which adds a common save/load interface to most of our engines, adding the much awaited Return to Launcher feature along the way. It was the work of another successful student, Chris Page.

A complete list of new games and features can be found in the release notes, and the latest ScummVM version itself (available for a large number of platforms as usual) is located at the downloads page.

Let’s play!

Changes:

New Games:
– Added support for The Legend of Kyrandia: Book Two: Hand of Fate.
– Added support for The Legend of Kyrandia: Book Three: Malcolm’s Revenge.
– Added support for Lost in Time.
– Added support for The Bizarre Adventures of Woodruff and the Schnibble.
– Added support for the PC version of Waxworks.
– Added support for the Macintosh version of I Have no Mouth, and I must Scream.
– Added support for Drascula: The Vampire Strikes Back.

General:
– Added CAMD MIDI driver for AmigaOS4.
– Revived the PS2 port (was already in 0.11.1 but was forgotten in the release notes).
– Plugged numerous memory leaks in all engines (part of GSoC’08 task),
– Added audio double buffering to the SDL backend, which fixes the problems with the MT-32 emulator on Mac OS X (for now only enabled on Mac OS X).

AGOS:
– Fixed crashes during certain music in Amiga versions of Elvira 1 and Simon the Sorcerer 1.
– Fixed palette issues in Amiga versions of Simon the Sorcerer 1.

Queen:
– Speech is played at the correct sample rate. (It used to be pitched a bit too low.)

SCUMM:
– Rewrote parts of Digital iMUSE, fixing some bugs.
– Rewrote the internal timer code, fixing some speed issues in e.g. COMI.
– Improved support for sound effects in Amiga version of Zak McKracken.
– Added support for mixed Adlib/MIDI mode in Monkey Island 1 (Floppy).

http://scummvm.sourceforge.net/downloads.php

Daum maps is a local information service based on Korea Map for the iPhone and iPod touch and it’s free.

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Ever been out and about and wished you knew where the closet park was to let your kids run wild for a while? Well now you can find them with Parks. Parks will find the closest parks to your current location with a simple tap. Upon opening the application, your iPhone will ask for your permission to obtain your current location via GPS. Once it’s located you, Parks will locate the closest parks to that location. Never be without knowing where your closest park is again!

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Happy Weight is a free application that suggest your ideal weight using your height, current weight and gender to help determine a healthy happy weight range for you.

You can also calculate your BMI (Body Mass Index). Your happy weight can be calculated in Pounds or in Kilograms.

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With 2tch you can navigate smoothly on this very famous Japanese BBS.

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Thanks to http://www.nintendomax.com for the news.

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retrohead has updated “Take the eggs! Ornithorhynchus Anatinus GO GO GO! DS.”

This is a port of the Sega Saturn game by NAXAT SOFT called Motteke Tamago with Ganbare! Kamonohashi. The game can be seen as a cross between the classic Bomberman games and Flicky.

Changes:

Vehicle speed on world 2 increased to be closer to the original game.
Time stop active time decreased to be closer to the original game.
Ghost / Death Messenger can now hit eggs and loose babies.
Added 5 new stages.
Added 4 new characters.
Score sprites positioning improved.
Added Hi-Score menu and awards for story mode.
Story sections incorperated.
2 hidden modes available for ranking high in story mode.
Options screen with sound level options added.
Save game support added to keep your Hi-Scores and unlocked modes etc.
Beat characters in story mode to unlock them in versus mode.
Play worlds in story mode to unlock them in versus mode.
Various bugs fixed.

Thanks to http://www.nintendomax.com and http://www.ds-scene.net for the news.

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