Mathieu Blondel

Many LucasArts games ran thanks to a game interpreter called Scumm. A team reverse-engineered it and developed a multi-platform and open-source version of it called ScummVM. Provided you own the game data, you can thus play Monkey Island and other LucasArts adventure games on Linux..

So I tried Monkey Island 3 with it and it worked outstandingly well…

I am quite fascinated by reverse-engineering in general because things like disassemble a program and convert it from ASM to C or study a closed file format require a somewhat scientific method : change one thing at a time and analyze the results.

Anyway, ScummVM is a great achievement and a great program.

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