ScummVM 2.8.0

What's new in this version:

New games:
- Added support for macOS versions of Syberia and Syberia II
- Added support for The Vampire Diaries, Nancy Drew: Secrets Can Kill, Nancy Drew: Stay Tuned for Danger, Nancy Drew: Message in a Haunted Mansion, Nancy Drew: Treasure in the Royal Tower and Nancy Drew: The Final Scene
- Added support for Reah: Face the Unknown and Schizm: Mysterious Journey
- Added support for Might and Magic Book One
- Added support for Muppet Treasure Island
- Added support for Primordia, Shardlight and Technobabylon
- Added support for The Excavation of Hob's Barrow, Strangeland and Whispers of a Machine
- Added support for Stranga and Cloak and Dagger's AGS games
- Added support for Adibou 1
- Added support for Dark Side
- Added support for Kingdom: The Far Reaches
- Added support for Escape From Hell
- Added support for Wrath of the Gods, Gadget: Invention, Travel and Adventure, The Dark Eye, and 4 other Director titles

New platforms:
- Added libretro new shiny port
- Added Atari port

General:
- Added optional dependency for libvpx
- Added optional dependency for libmikmod
- Added support for PC98 font ROM
- Added optional dependency for libsonivox, implementing EAS (Embedded Audio Synthesis) sound driver
- Added YUV422 and YUV444 support to Theora decoder
- Implemented specialized CPU routines for graphics blitting for ManagedSurface
- Changed default GM device to "auto" for better compatibility

AGS:
- Synced with upstream AGS 3.6.0.53
- Sped up graphics manipulation on modern hardware with CPU-specific code
- Added support for early font rendering, to match the original interpreter
- Added support for playback of transcoded videos in place of unsupported codecs
- Completed implementation of MOD audio playback
- Fixed background music not looping in some games
- Fixed game-breaking bugs in various games (e.g. Strangeland, Chronicle of Innsmouth
- Multiple updates to the game detection tables

Asylum:
- Added support for Chinese Sanitarium

Dragons:
- Implemented localizations for the copyright screen and main menu

Freescape:
- Improved collision and projectile detection using sweepAAB

GrimE:
- Added support for Chinese Grim Fandango
- Added support for Russian Grim Fandango translations from Fargus, ENPY and 7Wolf

Kyra:
- Added support for Kyra1 Amiga French release and DOS Czech fan translation
- Improved game controls menu accuracy for all platforms
- Added support for Chinese EOB2
- Added support for the PC-98 version of EOB2

Mohawk:
- Greatly improved the accurary of the code generation for the Domes in Riven: The Sequel to Myst to match the original game

Private:
- Added support for the Japanese Windows release

SCUMM:
- Added support for unpacked RuSCUMM patches for Russian localizations
- Allow usage of the official Monkey Island 1 Roland MT-32 patch with any EGA version, not just the English release
- Completely rewritten sound code for all Humongous Entertainment games
- Faithfully implemented Mac GUI for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and Loom
- Implemented turning around animation when changing direction for Full Throttle, The Dig and The Curse of Monkey Island
- Added enhancement to Loom: Ctrl+D shows up list of drafts that has been discovered
- Fixed kanji characters rendering issue in Japanese SegaCD version of Monkey Island 1. Text rendering for this game is now pixel perfect
- Implemented complete support for the Macintosh and DOS/V Japanese versions of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis distributed by MicroMouse
- Implemented network multiplayer support for Backyard Football, Backyard Baseball 2001, and Backyard Football 2002

Sherlock:
- Added support for Chinese Serrated Scalpel
- Added data to savegames whose lack could make savegames unwinnable

Sword1:
- Rewrote the palette fading system and the game timers to match the original DOS version
- Rewrote all the menu code to make it match the original. This includes the restoration of the Speed setting
- Restored the correct fonts and menu texts for all Russian versions of the game
- Rewrote the audio engine to match the original. Compressed files are still supported
- Tweaked the subtitles routine for the PSX version to match the original
- Restored George's idle animation
- Restored pause functionality: press "P"
- Restored debug commands: CTRL-G for toggling on-screen walkable grids, CTRL-T for displaying debug information, SHIFT-M for displaying crosshairs for the mouse cursor and George's position, and keys 1 and 4 to toggle respectively slow and fast frame pacing mode
- Restored the correct font for the game over screen
- Fixed other various small inaccuracies
- Overall the PC version of the game on ScummVM shouldn't differ from the original executable anymore
- Implemented credits for the PSX version

Sword2:
- Added support for Chinese translation

Tinsel:
- Fix running out of soundreels error

TwinE:
- Added support for Japanese translation

Ultima:
- Improve Ultima VI responsiveness
- Fix crash loading Ultima VI savegames when dialogs are open
- Fix ordering of generated items in Ultima VI
- Fix auto-readying throwing weapons in Ultima VI
- Fix Ultima VI crash opening new-style spellbook gump
- Fix Ultima VI actor doll and gump colors
- Fix Ultima VI crash using look action on walls
- Fix several other miscellaneous crashes
- Fix spawners and projectiles to more closely match the original
- Improved Ultima VI AdLib support and added Roland MT-32 support
- Fix multiple Ultima VIII render order issues
- Add support for Ultima VIII Spanish fan translation
- Support Pentagram save game files
- Added configurable double-click time for Ultima VIII

Voyeur:
- Added support for German fan translation

Xeen:
- Renamed 'xeen' engine to 'mm' for Might & Magic
- Added custom engine option to replace the health gems with HP/SP bars

RISC OS port:
- Double buffering is now used in full screen mode when V-sync is enabled
- Added support for hardware palettes