Nikhil Palanki

I've always been fascinated by the intersection between human phenomena and computing, specifically in fields of education, financial markets, and creative design. My programming interests are in machine learning, artificial intelligence, neural networks, cryptography, blockchain infrastructure, market making, simulation and modeling, and quantum computing. Outside of ByteRevel, I co-founded and spent four years working on a software consulting company, Quadral Apps (It's now defunct as the founders have all left). My interests outside of computer science are poverty alleviation, humanitarian engineering, education, financial markets and economics research.

ScummVM – A Great Emulator For Old SCUMM Games

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I’m not old enough to pull a “Back in my day” ramble but I can say that ScummVM allows you old timers and adventurous new generation people to play games that the old timers used to adore as much as you new generation people do towards Minecraft. Now that I just blew your mind, let me explain what ScummVM is.

ScummVM stands for Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion Virtual Machine. What is it? It is an open source engine that allows you to play (old) games made with the SCUMM scripting language. You can download these games off of  their website or on many other websites that host archives of old DOS SCUMM games, such as dosgamesarchive.com.  I assure you, you will be able to find many great, free Point-and-Click games on those sites (including such titles as Beneath a Steel Sky and Flight of the Amazon Queen).

Here is the link for the ScummVM website and here is the link for the downloads page.

The Secret of Monkey Island

 

The Secret of Monkey Island 2

 

The Flight of the Amazon Queen

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