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== About ScummVM == | == About ScummVM == | ||
The ScummVM project aims to allow users to run on modern hardware a variety of commercially available graphical point-and-click adventure games including Monkey Island, Simon the Sorcerer, Space Quest, and many more. To this end, ScummVM features a complete reimplementation of each supported game engine (Virtual Machine - VM) in a structured fashion using the C++ language. The development team works either | The ScummVM project aims to allow users to run on modern hardware a variety of commercially available graphical point-and-click adventure games including Monkey Island, Simon the Sorcerer, Space Quest, and many more. To this end, ScummVM features a complete reimplementation of each supported game engine (Virtual Machine - VM) in a structured fashion using the C++ language. The development team works by either reverse engineering game executables (usually with the permission of creators of the game), or by using the original source code of the games provided by the creators. The number of engines is constantly growing thanks to a very agile and diversified development team. | ||
The VM approach followed by ScummVM results in efficient code, which has been ported to numerous Operating Systems. Besides running on all mainstream desktop environments, namely Windows, Mac OS X | The VM approach followed by ScummVM results in efficient code, which has been ported to numerous Operating Systems. Besides running on all mainstream desktop environments, namely Windows, Mac OS X and most Unix variants (Linux, *BSD, Solaris, ...), ScummVM works on popular game consoles (Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable and more), smart phones and PDAs (WinCE, PalmOS or Symbian based), and even on many not-so-mainstream systems (like BeOS, AmigaOS or OS/2). | ||
ScummVM's high portability is a direct consequence of the flexible and modular structure of its architecture, which can be roughly divided into the following three major categories: | ScummVM's high portability is a direct consequence of the flexible and modular structure of its architecture, which can be roughly divided into the following three major categories: | ||
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* Project leads: There are currently three project leads. They all are also represented in one of the above categories, but besides this they organize and coordinate things, make decisions, solve disputes etc. | * Project leads: There are currently three project leads. They all are also represented in one of the above categories, but besides this they organize and coordinate things, make decisions, solve disputes etc. | ||
All of this enables us to be highly productive in a team of about 30 currently active developers (out of an all time pool of | All of this enables us to be highly productive in a team of about 30 currently active developers (out of an all-time pool of over 60), who work together on a codebase exceeding 600,000 lines of code. In addition we have many non-developer contributors, and a huge and highly active community. We are among the most active projects hosted on sourceforge.net with well over 100,000 monthly downloads and ~9 million project web hits per month. | ||
== What we hope to gain == | == What we hope to gain == | ||