README: Update and improve About section

I reported changes I made a year ago on the wiki User Manual/Introduction
page. It concerns mainly the supported games (many non SCUMM games
now) and (non-)beta status of ScummVM.

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@@ -71,25 +71,36 @@ files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables
 shipped with the game, allowing you to play them on systems for which
 they were never designed!
 
-Some of the adventures ScummVM supports include Adventure Soft's Simon
-the Sorcerer 1 and 2; Revolution's Beneath A Steel Sky, Broken Sword I
+Originally it was designed to run LucasArts' SCUMM games, such as Maniac
+Mansion, Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle or Sam and Max. SCUMM stands
+for 'Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion', which was the first
+game for which LucasArts designed this system. And much later it gave
+its name to ScummVM ('VM' meaning Virtual Machine).
+
+Over the time support for many non-SCUMM games has been added. Some of
+the adventures ScummVM supports include Adventure Soft's Simon the
+Sorcerer 1 and 2; Revolution's Beneath A Steel Sky, Broken Sword I
 and II; Flight of the Amazon Queen; Wyrmkeep's Inherit the Earth; Coktel
-Vision's Gobliiins; Westwood Studios' The Legend of Kyrandia and games
-based on LucasArts' SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion)
-system such as Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max and more.
-You can find a thorough list with details on which games are supported
-and how well on the compatibility page. ScummVM is continually
-improving, so check back often.
+Vision's Gobliiins and Westwood Studios' The Legend of Kyrandia. You can
+find a thorough list with details on which games are supported and how
+well on the compatibility page. ScummVM is continually improving, so
+check back often.
 
 Among the systems on which you can play those games are regular desktop
 computers (running Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, ...), game consoles
 (Dreamcast, Nintendo DS & Wii, PS2, PSP, ...), smartphones (Android,
 iPhone, PocketPC, Symbian ...) and more.
 
-At this time ScummVM should be considered beta software, and is still
-under heavy development. Be aware that whilst we attempt to make sure
-that many games can be completed with few major bugs, crashes can
-happen.
+At this time ScummVM is still under heavy development. Be aware that
+whilst we attempt to make sure that many games can be completed with few
+major bugs, crashes can happen and we offer no warranty. That being said,
+some of the games have been supported for a long time and should work
+fine with any recent stable release. You can get a feeling of how well
+each game is working in ScummVM by looking at the compatibility page.
+Actually if you browse a bit around you might discover that ScummVM is
+even being used commercially to re-release some of the supported games on
+modern platforms. This shows that several companies are happy with the
+quality of the software and how well it can run some of the games.
 
 If you enjoy ScummVM feel free to donate using the PayPal button on the
 ScummVM homepage. This will help us buy utilities needed to develop