The engine interprets the scripts that make up the logic of the game. Thanks - that's probably the most important thing to learn. I've always thought that SCUMMVM "replaces" a bit more stuff from the original engine. The script is interesting except it seems it handles only the situation ...

If you find no solution, you can just press the hotkey "c" for the "What is" stuff if you want to see if you missed something, and until then just explore what objects are clickable based on what objects would logically be clickable. I found the hotkey yesterday mentioned somewh...

If I understand things correctly the "what is" feature is a combination of the SCUMM engine telling the game scripts which verb was most recently clicked, and a game script acting on it. Thanks for your reply but I am not quite sure we are on the same page..? I thing my subject is a bit m...

I tried to replay Zak McKracken several times but after a while I always got angry because of the interface of the first generation of SCUMM games. The most annoying thing is that it does not automatically display the name of the object below mouse cursor and you have to use "What is" for ...