By the way, it's not an adventure game, but someone (Reimar) has made a patch for X-Wing Alliance that fix the 3D acceleration problems on recent graphic cards. It's such a pleasure to play it again. Thanks Reimar.
-> thread about the patch
-> the patch

Nice. Will have to dig that out and play it again, thanks!

>> have been looking around for these again and can't find them anywhere other than 2nd hand on ebay
You should search better. On the eBay I've always found what I was looking for on the LucasArts side of things (mostly in Italian language), though I had to be somehow patient with some games and wait for some new bids to appear on-line

i found indiana jones and the last crusade on abandonia.com a few weeks back, works fine with scummv. fate of atlantis is a different story...

You realise ilves, that unless a publisher specifically allows it, there's no such thing as abandonware, however frustrating it can be?
No offence anyway to Lucasarts fans, I liked their games, but there's plenty of other point and clicks I'd like to see first. The two EA Sherlock Holmes games for instance, far better than those drab monstrosities that Frogwares have been making Other games like Hell:A Cyberpunk Thriller, Rex Nebular, I Have no mouth and I must scream, Sanitarium, various Sierra games like Torins Passage, Gabriel Knight and others.

Just to clear up what "abandonware"...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandonware
"Definitions of "abandoned" vary; generally, it refers to software no longer available for legal purchase, or of a certain age...
In most cases, software classed as abandonware is not in the public domain, as it has never had its original copyright revoked."
"Abandonware" does no equal legal necessarily. As such it doesn't matter if the company allows it or not, it could still be abandonware. Now if you wanted to download an abandonware title legally, then you would need the companies permission. But that's an issue of copyrights... and a whole other kettle of fish entirely. Oh and those are some good point and cilck choices. I'd be curious to play Sanitarium again at least, and I'd certainly pick up Blade Runner if that ever came out. They'd scratch a bit of a nostalgic itch. But it's LucasFilm/LucasArts that I live for.
But back to the original post, I really hope the old LucasFilm/LucasArts game show up on here eventually. As the library increases I think it may only be a matter of time before LucasArts jumps in. They've already spoken out about looking into porting the PC titles onto the DS but couldn't due to size restrictions. While LucasArts is known for "sitting on their franchises" (as TheCheese33 put it), they only seem to sit on franchises when it comes to creating new games for those franchises. They seem entirely open to the idea of re-selling the old games in the right medium. So I don't think we'll be seeing a new Monkey Island any time soon (unless TellTale nabs it as they did with Sam and Max) I do think they'll be more than happy to re-release old titles once again should they find a reliable way to do so that makes sense to them. GoG.com seems the best option at present. Here's hoping!
Any links? This sounds WAY too good to be true, but it would give me a great reason to actually buy a game for my Wii. I haven't heard much of anything about the new Indy game by itself none the less a FOA port being bundled in. I would buy it for that alone, and turn my Wii into something other than an expensive red light that collects dust on my entertainment center.

The wikipedia entry mentions it. Read it a few other places too

Size restrictions? I think that's nothing more than an excuse. Maniac Mansion can fit onto a DS cartridge. Monkey Island 1 can fit onto a DS cartridge. Monkey Island 2 can fit onto a DS cartridge. (It's possible that both Monkey Island 1 and 2 can fit onto the same DS cartridge!) Sam and Max Hit the Road can fit onto a DS cartridge (even if it includes all the voices!) Same applies to Day of the Tentacle.
I think Lucasarts is just full of it. I read that interview, and they also said they are still making adventure games, but they are making "survival horror" adventure games (which I still have yet to see a single one of from that company). Don't believe me? Click on this link and tell me I'm lying:
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=143948

I suppose technically if the company gave permission it wouldn't be abandonware anymore anyway, it would be freeware.
Blade Runner is one I've got, so I've no interest in it personally, but it would be a good choice for a release. Especially considering that not so long ago there was that big rerelease of the movie.
There's a ton of older games of varying quality like Rex Nebular, the Innocent until Caught/Guilty series and others.

Recently Disney bought Lucasarts. Do you think it decreases the chances of any Lucasarts games appearing on GOG, or it increases them?

Possibly increases, as CDPR and Disney have working relations in Poland. Don't get your hopes up, though. If you want, there are other recent threads with more discussion in them.

Go and find The Secret of LucasArts.

Discussion here.

Since when does the general public need a company's permission to actualize a concept and agree upon its terminologies? This is like saying "ain't" and other slang terms aren't real words just because some high-brow dictionaries by Oxford scholars don't make any mention of them. Rubbish logic.

What does this mean? I found it via a videogames forum, but I don't know if it's just Disney confirming the ownership of the Maniac Mansion brand or someting else.

http://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn85940105&docId=APP20130525075031#docIndex=0&page=1%23nnn

Probably just Disney making sure no one else can claim any right to anything they own. You do know they are a company that makes all of its money from work done by others. Fights hardest to keep the copyright laws, and yetbegun by re telling fairytales that now you need their permission to publish.
They will protect any trade mark, copyright or patient as a lump of sheer gold. Disney are after all the company that trademarks people names. The next worse for that behaivour is the Olympics.