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Title: AGI Fan Games Archive
Post by: Nicktatorship on April 12, 2017, 08:04:31 PM
Hi all,

A recent jaunt down memory lane lead me to searching for fangames, since I was adamant that there must have been a different version of my own AGI game to the one I'd been able to find on fansites. I found dead torrents and broken links and long-gone roms that all gave credence to my theory, but eventually happened across what I'd been searching for - amidst the madness of the ScummVM forums, I found *it* and something a little more, that I knew had to get back to whatever remnant of the old AGI community might still exist.

This is a bzip-tar file of an AGI Fanmade Game collection, which contains the folders listed below.

(http://i.imgur.com/ycbgEQ7.png)

It's attached to this post, but I've also thrown it into my google drive (and dropbox and skydrive, because I really don't want this to get lost again).

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9y2oAuzUDfSRjIxTlJBajY0OUk/view?usp=sharing (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9y2oAuzUDfSRjIxTlJBajY0OUk/view?usp=sharing)

I'm not sure when the archive is from, though can see it's from after my own contribution (The Lost Planet). Unfortunately for me, it looks like both of the releases I did had serious issues, despite having solveable paths. Still deciding what I want to do with that personally, but hey, I hope this is useful to some of you :)

~Nick/Tarison/Nicktatorship
Title: Re: AGI Fan Games Archive
Post by: Collector on April 13, 2017, 12:04:14 AM
There was such an archive that ScummVM had for a while. It had a problem in that a few of the directory names had illegal characters for Windows, which I corrected and uploaded for the Wiki. I will have to look through your archive to see if it has anything missing from what I uploaded for the Wiki.
Title: Re: AGI Fan Games Archive
Post by: Nicktatorship on April 13, 2017, 01:57:49 AM
Yeah, it was on the forums that I found this - linked to someone's private hosting - though I'd also seen it years back too. I was specifically looking for the 0.9 version of The Lost Planet, which I'd not been able to find anywhere. I don't think it's a fully comprehensive list, but even having different versions of the same game is something a little different to most listings I'd found.
Title: Re: AGI Fan Games Archive
Post by: Collector on April 13, 2017, 09:59:36 AM
I know that there are at least one or two fan games missing from the archive on the Wiki. I was never able to track them down. I think that they may have never been publicly released.
Title: Re: AGI Fan Games Archive
Post by: Nicktatorship on April 13, 2017, 11:05:22 AM
The main ones that stand out (compared to the wiki) are Naturette 4, Hobbits, and Pirate Quest. According to the folder, Naturette 4 wasn't released, so that might be one such. I haven't really tried/explored them beyond my own.
Title: Re: AGI Fan Games Archive
Post by: Collector on April 13, 2017, 05:39:12 PM
I forget exactly what is missing. What I based it on was when I was restoring the Wiki from the Wayback, so there may have been entries made by the developers before they released anything and then never do so. Also when I look through the hash list of all of the fan games when I was making my Sierra version tool.