Halfway between The Sims and The Game of Life, Jones in the Fast Lane is a multimedia-enhanced board game about work, school, money and materialism for one to four players. An early CD-ROM title, it makes charming use of the medium's video capabilities in the clips of game characters who say things like, 'You're not properly dressed for work!' And 'Your landlord garnished some of your wages.' After setting your objectives at the beginning of the game, you gain work experience, education and posessions to work towards career success, scholastic achievement, wealth - or the Sims type of happiness that only comes from owning a really nice refrigerator. Though the game takes the form of an onscreen boardgame, the designers take advantage of computer moderation to add such complex features as a stock market and a dynamic economy that shifts prices.
Jones in the Fast Lane is a simulation of a person's life, presented as a turn-based strategy game. Making it work Both floppy and CD-ROM versions work in DOSBox 0.74.
Originally to be titled 'Keeping Up With Jones,' Jones In The Fast Lane was programmed by first-generation Sierra programmer Warren Schwader and based on a primitive BASIC demo that impressed the company.Functionally identical to the original Jones in the Fast Lane, but delivered on a CDROM and containing the following enhancements:DOS version: Redbook CD Audio for the voice acting; additional animation and actor portraits; takes very little space on hard drive.
Latest commit Apr 3, 2020 Files TypeNameLatest commit messageCommit timeFailed to load latest commit information.Nov 24, 2019Mar 19, 2020Apr 1, 2020Mar 28, 2020Mar 22, 2020Mar 28, 2020Mar 31, 2020Mar 30, 2020Apr 3, 2020Apr 2, 2020Mar 28, 2020Mar 30, 2020Feb 1, 2020Mar 24, 2020Mar 25, 2020Nov 30, 2019Dec 29, 2019Feb 7, 2019Mar 27, 2020Dec 19, 2019Mar 8, 2020Jul 2, 2019Jan 15, 2020Dec 16, 2016Jan 29, 2012Aug 7, 2011May 5, 2019Dec 31, 2019Jul 8, 2019Feb 16, 2020Mar 30, 2020Feb 28, 2020Mar 9, 2019Sep 29, 2019Sep 29, 2019Mar 28, 2020Feb 8, 2008Mar 28, 2020Feb 22, 2020Sep 22, 2019Nov 23, 2017. For more information, compatibility lists, details on donating, thelatest release, progress reports and more, please visit the ScummVM homepage at: Table of Contents:.1.0) Introduction 1.1) About ScummVMScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphicalpoint-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their datafiles. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executablesshipped with the game, allowing you to play them on systems for whichthey were never designed!Originally it was designed to run LucasArts' SCUMM games, such as ManiacMansion, Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle or Sam and Max. SCUMM standsfor 'Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion', which was the firstgame for which LucasArts designed this system. And much later it gaveits name to ScummVM ('VM' meaning Virtual Machine).Over time support for a lot of non-SCUMM games has been added, andScummVM now also supports many of Sierra's AGI and SCI games (such asKing's Quest 1-7, Space Quest 1-6.), Discworld 1 and 2, Simon theSorcerer 1 and 2, Beneath A Steel Sky, Lure of the Temptress, BrokenSword I and II, Flight of the Amazon Queen, Gobliiins 1-3, The Legend ofKyrandia series, many of Humongous Entertainment's children's SCUMMgames (including Freddi Fish and Putt Putt games) and many more. You canfind a full list with details on which adventures are supported and howwell on the compatibility page.
ScummVM is continually improving, socheck back often.Among the systems on which you can play those games are regular desktopcomputers (running Windows, Linux, Mac OS X.), game consoles(Dreamcast, Nintendo DS & Wii, PS2, PSP.), smartphones (Android,iPhone, Symbian.) and more.At this time ScummVM is still under heavy development. Be aware thatwhilst we attempt to make sure that many games can be completed with fewmajor bugs, crashes can happen and we offer no warranty. That beingsaid, some of the games have been supported for a long time and shouldwork fine with any recent stable release. You can get a feeling of howwell each game is working in ScummVM by looking at the compatibilitypage. Actually, if you browse a bit around you might discover thatScummVM is even being used commercially to re-release some of thesupported games on modern platforms. This shows that several companiesare happy with the quality of the software and how well it can run someof the games.If you enjoy ScummVM feel free to donate using the PayPal button on theScummVM homepage. This will help us buy utilities needed to developScummVM easier and quicker.
If you cannot donate, help and contribute apatch! 1.2) Quick startFor the impatient among you, here is how to get ScummVM running in fivesimple steps.Download ScummVM from andinstall it.Create a directory on your hard drive and copy the game datafilesfrom the original media to this directory. Repeat this for everygame you want to play.Start ScummVM, choose 'Add game', select the directory with the gamedatafiles (do not try to select the datafiles themselves!) andpress Choose.A dialog should pop up allowing you to configure various settings ifyou wish to (it should be just fine to leave everything at itsdefault, though).
Confirm the dialog.Select the game you want to play in the list, and press Start.In the future, you should be able to directly skip to step 5, unless youwant to add more games.Hint: If you want to add multiple games in one go, try pressing andholding the shift key before clicking 'Add game' - its label willchange to 'Mass Add' and if you press it, you are again asked to selecta directory, only this time ScummVM will search through allsubdirectories for supported games. 1.3) F.A.Q.We've compiled a list of F.A.Q. At:2.0) ContactThe easiest way to contact the ScummVM team is by submitting bug reports(see section 2.1) or by using our forums at.You can also join and e-mail the scummvm-devel mailing list, or chatwith us on IRC (#scummvm on irc.freenode.net) Please do not ask us tosupport an unsupported game - read the FAQ on our web site first. 2.1) Reporting BugsTo report a bug, please follow the 'Bug Tracker' link from our homepageand log in with your GitHub account. Please make sure the bug isreproducible, and still occurs in the latest git/Daily build version.Also check the known problems list (below) and the compatibility list onour website for that game, to ensure the issue is not already known:Please do not report bugs for games that are not listed as beingcompleteable in the 'Supported Games' section, or compatibility list. Weknow those games have bugs.Please include the following information:. ScummVM version (PLEASE test the latest git/Daily build).
Bug details, including instructions on reproducing. Language of game (English, German.). Version of game (talkie, floppy.). Platform and Compiler (Win32, Linux, FreeBSD.).
Attach a saved game if possible - If this bug only occurredrecently, please note the last version without the bug, and thefirst version including the bug. That way we can fix it quicker bylooking at the changes made.Finally, please report each issue separately; do not file multipleissues on the same ticket. (Otherwise, it gets difficult to track thestatus of each individual bug).