XBMC Live Scummvm Guide
Play Classic PC Games on your Linux Based XBMC HTPC
In this post we’re going to show you how to install and use ScummVM.
With scum you’ll be able to play classic PC games such and The monkey Island Series, Day of the Tentacle and many more.
Blog Notes
“We’re going to be using putty again in this guide so let’s get stuck in.
For help with putty please see our A beginner’s Guide to Terminal and XBMC and follow the stages 1-5.
Also if you are unfamiliar with launching programs from XBMC see our Advanced Launcher Guide“
Installing ScummVm on XBMC LIVE
In Terminal/Putty
sudo apt-get install scummvm
This will install scummvm to you system enter y then enter when requested.
Ok now we are going to make a script so advance launcher can see and load scum
cd /home/"user"/ "user" without quotes is your xbmc login. For instance my user is xbmc so my command would be cd /home/xbmc/ mkdir scripts this makes a scripts folder cd scripts to navigate to the new folder sudo nano scum.sh This will open a txt editor copy and paste the txt below into the new file.
| #!/bin/bash fluxbox & cd /usr/games/ ./scummvm killall -9 fluxbox |
ctrl + o (then enter to save) ctrl + x to exit
sudo chmod +x scum.sh
to make the script executable
Now on your XBMC system go to programs (confluence) or addons (night,neon) and run advanced launcher addon
and choose standalone pc executable
Now bro’s to our scripts folder that we made (/home/xbmc/scripts/) and select the scum.sh
use the default arguments ( i.e just hint enter)
Scum will now be visible in the launcher when run for the 1st time its recommended you hit alt + enter on the keyboard to make it full screen.
This only needs to be done the first boot.You can now add games. A mouse and keyboard is recommended for controls. I personally load up a usb hd with all my scum favorites Monkey Island, Day of the tentacle, Sam and Max ect. You can also set the video option to use HQ filters as in most emulators, mine is set to HQx2 and runs super on my Acer Revo 3600.
On exit scum will close and you will be taken back to XBMC.
You can add the launcher items to favourites and add them to your main menu, or create more launcher apps with the context menu (c on the keyboard).
Any corrections please point them out to me.
I’m to have some swashbuckling fun o00arrrrh see ya stinking seadogs on Phatt Island
Lefty
