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ScummVM 2026.3.0 "Carousels & Killer Whales" released

Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:22:23 +0200

ScummVM 2026.3.0 “Carousels & Killer Whales” has been released, adding 9 newly supported games — including two Nancy Drew titles — along with GUI improvements and numerous engine fixes.

Newly supported games:

Nancy Drew: The Haunted Carousel

Nancy Drew: Danger on Deception Island

Noctropolis

Cartoon Carnival

Alfred Pelrock: En Busca de un Sueño

Pilot Brothers: On the Track of Striped Elephant

Pilot Brothers: The Case of Serial Maniac

(plus 5 additional games on the Gamos engine)

General:

Commander Keen: comprehensive technical white papers released after three years of work

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:31:04 +0200

Bas Smits spent over three years writing “Game Engine White Papers: Commander Keen” - a 214-page, full-color book about how games were made in the late 1980s and early 1990s, more than 35 years after the original. Available as a free PDF or as a printed book on Amazon.

The book covers hardware (80286, EGA video cards, sound cards, keyboards), game assets, the engine architecture, and how the CGA version of the game was created. Source code for the book project is on GitHub.