[madmoose]

ScummVM is not emulation, it's primarily a collection of reimplementations of game engines based on reverse engineering, with the occasional donation of original source code from the developers.

So with ScummVM you can study how the original SCUMM virtual machine worked, but to see the original SCUMM scripts before they were compiled we have to rely on the kindness of Ron Gilbert :)

[account42]

Emulation doesn't mean just hardware emulation even if some die-hards might want it to. Certainly not in colloquial usage.

ScummVM in particular started out as an interpreter for SCUMM bytecode, emulating the original interpreter that ships with the games. It's as much as an emulator for those games as WinE is a Windows Emulator - that is, saying so will make some people upset but being upset does not make them right.