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I've started testing beta releases of DREAMM 2.1. Grab the latest version here: https://aarongiles.com/dreamm/beta/ New games supported: Indiana Jones and His Desktop Adventures Mortimer and the Riddles of the Medallion Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire Star Wars: Yoda Stories Outlaws Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine Windows versions of: Afterlife, X-Wing, TIE Fighter Major new features (documented in more detail at the link above): Linux support -- hooray, you can stop begging! 😉 Portable mode -- put DREAMM and all your games/settings on a USB stick and take it with you! Standalone mode -- two ways to launch DREAMM directly into a game! Built-in OPL MIDI synthesizer -- because Linux needs a default synth, and who doesn't love the soothing FM sounds? Command-line installation -- drag & drop is cool, but command lines are for true old skoolers! Telemetry (yes, you can opt out) -- help me know when DREAMM crashes or encounters a previously-unknown version of a game! Have at it, and let me know if you run into any issues upgrading or running the new games, either in this thread or at dreamm@aarongiles.com

The more I look at everyone's lists, the more I think you can make arguments for placements anywhere. Just look at Maniac Mansion: Reasons for "perfection": It revolutionised a genre It has a crazy amount of solutions and endings, especially for the time The story is great (for the time) There's so much to do and fun things to discover, especially for 1987 It's funny Reasons for "nah": The interface is painful to use There's not really any characterisation by today's standards The puzzles are too obtuse by today's standards There's dead ends It's ugly I think both of these lists are true. For me, I value puzzle characters and story, as well as puzzle logic, but I'm pretty ruthless and unforgiving about the context they were released in.

The Indy posters are pretty much as good as I can make them. Although, I still have an unscanned promo poster of Emperor's Tomb, so that might yield a slight improvement. Edit: oh, now I see that you meant it the other way around - a new poster indicating an impending LRG release. Not in this case, unfortunately. Here's hoping they'll revisit The Dig too!

Glad to be able to help, DREAMM is a very valuable and interesting project!

Ha! No, you're completely right. I botched the feature completely. It only works if you've already installed the game in DREAMM. Since I have pretty much every version installed, they all seemed to work fine when I tested it. I'll fix it properly for the next beta. Thanks for complaining (seriously)!

I suppose this is where I am these days