Actually, there are 2 other freeware'd adventure games running in ScummVM: "Lure of the Temptress" and "Drascula: The Vampire Strikes Back".

There is an outdated and AFAIK currently unmaintained (another chance for someone with some free time to step in and help out) Linux port of AGS.

As for the games, some work on Linux, as long as they don't use any external DLLs (obviously). Unfortunately, there are many who do (popular DLLs being SFX for raindrops and flashlights, last I checked).

As in beer, but not as in speech. :P

Well, just to be clear: The thing with residual is not some abstract status, but a lack of interested devs with enough free time.

Anybody here who qualifies for that is free to check in #scummvm on FreeNode and offer their help. :P

ScummVM has recently merged with FreeSCI, so this is going to happen eventually. Right now, there's still a lot of clean-up and restructuring going on, general development will continue then.

Of course, help is always appreciated, so if /you/ perhaps would like to provide said help, there's for example #scummvm on FreeNode.

The difference in ideology - ScummVM working with disassamblies of executables, while FreeSCI does it the clean-room way by reimplementing what can be noticed from the "outside" - pretty much stands in the way of a direct merge.

But there is SCI support for ScummVM coming, what we need is developers willing to help (*hint hint*).

As can be read there, the FreeSCI could use some help, too, with introducing the GSoC project into their tree; and, I'm sure, general devs wanting to build a clean-room SCI implementation as well.

So you must not have been a fan of Street Fighter II, Wolf3D, Galaga, Quake, S.T.U.N. Runner, Killer Instinct, San Francisco Rush, After Burner, Super Mario Bros., Sonic the Hedgehog, Starfox, Contra, Lemmings, etc., etc., etc.

Well, I for one enjoyed (and still do) Maniac Mansion, Zak McKracken, Indiana Jones 4, Monkey Island 1-3, The Dig, Day of the Tentacle, Loom, Sam'N'Max, Simon the Sorcerer 1+2, Broken Sword 1+2, Full Throttle, etc., etc., etc, instead...