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SCI Syntax Help / Re: Importing a Character (a la Quest for Glory)

« on: December 11, 2018, 09:16:56 AM »

I doubt it's a standard SCI save file. I haven't looked into it at all, but my guess is it's more likely a completely custom format in byte code that they scripted the games to understand. AGDI's QFG2VGA remake (made in AGS) will also understand these files and produce a new one for use in QFG3 onward.

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The Games and other Sierra Adventure stuff / Re: Al Lowe reveals his Sierra source code collection—then puts all of it on eBay

« on: December 07, 2018, 03:49:47 PM »

The auctions were cancelled.

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The Games and other Sierra Adventure stuff / Re: Al Lowe reveals his Sierra source code collection—then puts all of it on eBay

« on: December 01, 2018, 11:33:45 PM »

I wonder if the source to the SCI interpreter itself is included somehow somewhere with what he has. Doubtful, I guess...

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The Games and other Sierra Adventure stuff / Al Lowe reveals his Sierra source code collection—then puts all of it on eBay

« on: November 30, 2018, 11:16:08 AM »

He said "none of my kids want this junk" and it took a fan to convince him that the community would find it invaluable.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/al_lowe/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=

Here's an interview video by Metal Jesus Rocks.

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SCI Development Tools / Re: SCI01 Template Game

« on: November 30, 2018, 07:45:27 AM »

:O

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SCI Development Tools / Re: SCI01 Template Game

« on: November 29, 2018, 07:59:28 PM »

I'm definitely going to look into migrating my KQ2SCI project over to this at some point if the kinks have all been worked out. It's been so long, I can afford to start from scratch on a few things. I really want those moving screen transitions.

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SCI Development Tools / Re: SCI01 Template Game

« on: November 28, 2018, 08:21:20 AM »

I wish I could translate assembly. I just cannot do it. I've made a lot of progress modifying KQ5floppy, but I can't alter the Main script for this reason.

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SCI Development Tools / Re: SCI01 Template Game

« on: November 27, 2018, 08:32:46 AM »

Nice! Now I gotta migrate KQ2SCI to SCI01.

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SCI Development Tools / Re: Decompilation Archive

« on: November 24, 2018, 09:31:01 PM »

So, an SCI01 template game?

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SCI Development Tools / Re: System Logger found in QFG1VGA

« on: November 09, 2018, 12:49:34 AM »

What does it do?

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The Games and other Sierra Adventure stuff / Re: What are we working on?

« on: November 06, 2018, 06:13:59 PM »

I have KQ3 for the CoCo. Never been able to play it as our CoCo never had enough RAM. But I have it CIB and everything.

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Everything-Else / Re: Telltale Games are shutting down

« on: November 03, 2018, 12:51:06 AM »

Crazy. Fascinating learning the history's history.

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SCI Development Tools / Re: SCI Companion V3 - alpha build notes/bugs/feature requests

« on: October 27, 2018, 08:10:37 PM »

Oh. Please ignore my ignorance.

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SCI Development Tools / Re: SCI Companion V3 - alpha build notes/bugs/feature requests

« on: October 27, 2018, 03:59:14 PM »

I wish you could get past your differences with GIT. It would make tracking your additions it easier.

I don't know if this influences anyone's decisions to use it one way or the other, but I've just learned today that Github was purchased by Microsoft for $7.5 billion. The co-founder has already stepped down.

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SCI Syntax Help / Re: SCI0 Importing a MIDI

« on: October 13, 2018, 01:28:44 AM »

If you want Adlib, you need a GM-compatible Adlib patch bank. With MT-32 it's easier because SCI doesn't care what the device you send it to is. It'll just send it. So importing a GM MIDI file and playing it with the MT-32 driver on a GM MIDI device should come out sounding fine....in theory. There are GM and MPU401 drivers out there though aren't there?

But yeah, no GM-mapped Adlib. BTW, not to hijack, but regarding that GM-mapped MT-32 patch bank I was working on....despite my rather extensive library of MT-32 custom timbres (hundreds) I don't have all the instruments necessary to accurately represent all the GM instruments. Which is why I've never completed it. They'd need to be made from scratch and I just haven't got a clue what I'm doing in that area, sadly.