Shadowgate

Shadowgate

First release	1987
Also known as	N/A
Developed by	ICOM Simulations
Published by	Mindscape, Kemco, Zojoi
Distributed by	Mindscape, Kemco, Zojoi
Platforms	Apple IIGS, MacOS, Atari ST, Game Boy Color, Amiga, DOS, Windows, PocketPC, NES, PalmOS, Mobile Phone, 3DS
Resolution	512×342
Engine	MacVenture, ZCode
Support	MacVenture: Since ScummVM 2026.4.0 ZCode: Since ScummVM 2.2.0
Available for Purchase	Yes

Shadowgate is a point and click adventure game where an adventurer ventures through a castle toward the Warlock Lord's chamber, dealing with magical creatures along the way, such as dragons and a cyclops.

It was originally created with the MacVenture engine. An unofficial text adventure version was created by Dave Griffith in Inform in 2004.

Required Data Files

The following applies to the Macintosh (MacVenture) version. Copy the following from the extracted disk image, keeping the filenames intact:

All files from the image
Including the Shadowgate II subdirectory

The Zojoi re-release (sold on Steam) contains the same data as the 1993 Macintosh rerelease and is auto-detected as such; you only need to extract it from the download (see below).

Extracting from the Steam release

The Steam download is only a CEF web-wrapper (libcef.dll, ffmpegsumo.dll, icudt.dll, <game>.exe); the Macintosh disk image is embedded as PE resource 256/1012 inside the .exe (resource 256/1011 is the Apple IIGS .2mg, which ScummVM does not use). Extract it using either method:

Using dumper-companion directly on the executable — it recognises the known games and extracts the image itself:
devtools/dumper-companion.py iso <game>.exe <outdir>
Using wrestool (from icoutils) to pull the image into a .dsk first, then converting it:
wrestool -x --raw --type=256 --name=1012 <game>.exe -o <game>.dsk

devtools/dumper-companion.py iso <game>.dsk <outdir>

Both write MacBinary files (resource forks preserved) with the filenames ScummVM expects. Then add <outdir> as the game path in ScummVM.

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