Graphical adventure games?

[chris_andrew]

Hi,

Can anyone tell me whether any graphical adventure games are available in Breezy?

I used to play things like The Hobbit on the ZX Spectrum, and wondered if anything exists, along these lines?

Many thanks,

Chris.

[teaker1s]

enable backports and use add applications to find games

[splatg]

There are a couple that I know about avalible in the Universe repositories: beneath-a-steel-sky and flight-of-the-amazon-queen. These both use the scumm adventure game system which you can also use to play classic lucas arts adventure games such as monkey island.

Hope that helps.

[chris_andrew]

Many thanks, guys.

[fct]

Also, if you install dosbox, you'll be able to play most adventure games that were released for MS-DOS.

If you're interested in text adventures, you can play quite a few using frotz or tads.

[handy]

If you go to this link:- http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Main_Page#Gamers_Arena
you may find future happines :-)

good luck

handy

[Efrain Valles]

There are a couple that I know about avalible in the Universe repositories: beneath-a-steel-sky and flight-of-the-amazon-queen. These both use the scumm adventure game system which you can also use to play classic lucas arts adventure games such as monkey island.

Hope that helps.

Did you actually Play Monkey Island on ubuntu???
wow:eek:

how did ya?
I tried DOSBOX and DOSEMU but nothing happened...

[chris_andrew]

Hi,

Didn't try Monkey Island. Aren't the dependencies satisfied by apt? If not, does a bug need to be filed?

Thanks,

Chris.

[Artificial Intelligence]

For windows adventure game and more use scummVM: http://www.scummvm.org/

[Miguel]

To the ones interested in playing Graphical Adventures:

Beneath a Steel Sky and Flight of the Amazon Queen are available in multiverse or universe (I forgot) and are playable. I am currently working my way on BASS.

And to Efrain, Monkey Island works. Though I have no access to ether Monkey Island 1 or 2, I am currently enjoying The Curse of Monkey Island. And it works pretty good (safe for two slight graphical glitches with Elaine's statue and Grim Fandango's roasted chicken).

There should be a compatibility list in the scummvm site (www.scummvm.org)

BTW: The CD versions of BASS and FOTAQ are available in the scummvm web site. I am not sure if the ones in the repositories are the floppy or the CD version.

EDIT: I have checked scummvm's site and the breezy versions seem to be the CD ones. If only I could find the spanish versions...

BTW2: There is a guy translating older MIDI sound to OGG using a professional Yamaha mesh, with fidelity and quality as his goals.

[Miguel]

I forgot, Efrain. ScummVM is the way to play Monkey Island.

You only need the data files, so the game runs "natively". And scumm has a few pro's. It allows you to resize the images 2x or 3x using some antialiasing... and the game then looks way nicer.

[MinstrelBoy]

This maybe of interest ......

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[charlieg]

These may also be helpful:
http://freegamer.blogspot.com/2007/06/scummvm-gains-agi-support.html
http://freegamer.blogspot.com/2007/06/kings-quest.html

[edemark]

Hi
I personally would vote for dosbox. Also there are loads of abandoned dos adventure games that run well on dosbox which you can try out and play. (I got shocked the other day watching the 10 minutes intro video of Mission Critical).

good luck
pd you may try to google for abandonware and you are on the way of gaming

[charlieg]

I'm having De Ja Vu here...

Anyway, a couple of Free Gamer posts that might help out here:
http://freegamer.blogspot.com/2007/06/scummvm-gains-agi-support.html
http://freegamer.blogspot.com/2007/06/kings-quest.html

[kevinlyfellow]

If you don't mind paying, there's always Drod http://forum.caravelgames.com/viewsitepage.php?id=90294