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AGI Development Tools / Re: New NAGI fork and NAGI Font Editor

« on: October 27, 2026, 06:42:16 PM »

Yeah, I just saw that on you GItHub page after I asked. I always found it annoying. Will you have a binary available? I need to wait until I move my new system over to Win11 to install the newer dotNet runtimes.

By the way, AGILE started as a way to play games being developed in VisualAGI using an updated AGI library from that project.The intent was to keep it all in C#.

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AGI Development Tools / Re: New NAGI fork and NAGI Font Editor

« on: October 27, 2026, 04:51:53 PM »

Interesting. Does the Windows close button now work?

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Everything-Else / Re: I give up

« on: October 14, 2026, 06:17:32 PM »

A good quote from a discussion on AI art was "I have become convinced the soul exists after seeing all of the soulless art generated by soulless AI.

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AGI Development Tools / Re: WinAGI Final Beta - Looking for a little more feedback

« on: October 14, 2026, 06:10:23 PM »

I have not looked at the VS project installer, but NSIS and Inno this would be an easy file or reg check before install. Does the Community edition even support the VS project installer?

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AGI Development Tools / Re: WinAGI Final Beta - Looking for a little more feedback

« on: October 12, 2026, 02:33:03 PM »

Hey Eric, have gotten any further with the 2.1emplate?

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AGI Development Tools / Re: WinAGI Final Beta - Looking for a little more feedback

« on: October 10, 2026, 11:10:59 AM »

Don't know if I'll have much of a chance to do much with it anytime soon, but great to see it near completion. Nice to see a near release build moving beyond the old legacy VB and ActiveX stuff.

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AGI Development Tools / Re: AGI IS HERE

« on: October 09, 2026, 12:09:06 PM »

Yeah, Peter Kelly also surfaces here from time to time, too.

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The Games and other Sierra Adventure stuff / Re: The Realm Online

« on: October 09, 2026, 09:27:42 AM »

Not the Realm, but related. An old LSCI developer, James Leiterman recreated the server side of INN after ImagiNation Network Revival fell into oblivion. INN Barn is the result and is still around. https://wiki.sierrahelp.com/index.php/INN_Barn

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AGI Development Tools / Re: AGI IS HERE

« on: October 09, 2026, 09:09:03 AM »

I had contacted Gustaf Wennerholm on Facebook about the source at the time, but he no longer had it. I had looked for you then, too, but could not find you. Luckily, Chris Cromer had the code and I got it from him.

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Everything-Else / Re: I give up

« on: October 08, 2026, 09:22:55 PM »

I hope you do not leave. I am not much of an AI fan, myself and mostly ignore those pushing Art or voice acting faking Gary Owens.

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AGI Development Tools / Re: AGI IS HERE

« on: October 08, 2026, 09:17:39 PM »

Oh, also you may find a few familiar faces here, so to speak. They don't post here very often, but Lance Ewing occasionally shows up as well as Chris Cromer and others from the old AGI communities.

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AGI Development Tools / Re: AGI IS HERE

« on: October 08, 2026, 09:12:20 PM »

I managed to get the Visual AGI source from Chris Cromer and updated the code. I gave it to Lance Ewing, who was wanting to familiarize himself more with C#. I added a script editor to it, but the project didn't get much further. Lance  took the AGI library from it and started AGILE, a new AGI interpreter. I help some with the interface. https://wiki.sierrahelp.com/index.php/AGILE

Lance also used it to develop AGILE-gdx, an AGI interpreter to run in a browser. https://wiki.sierrahelp.com/index.php/AGILE-gdx

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The Games and other Sierra Adventure stuff / Re: Rare SCI Games

« on: September 01, 2026, 10:16:21 PM »

Buried in this SCIW_V.EXE is the string:

PKWARE Data Compression Library(
)
Copyright 1990-92 PKWARE Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
Patent No.
,745
Version 1.03

I am not sure what it is doing there if it was not packed with it, but as I mentioned, unlzexe will not handle it.

The reason that I am trying to sort it out is that this is the one from Hoyle 4. The SIERRA.EXE has the NB00 and NB02 strings visible, even before decompressing.

Strings visible before decompressing are references to Win16 system files and scidll and the string  "Windows version of SCI - HOYLE" along with various generic error messages. It also shows the interpreter's flags, but no hint of a version number. I think ScummVM ID it as on of those "x.yyy.zzz" interpreters, but I would like to have my tool determine it instead of relying on a reference.

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The Games and other Sierra Adventure stuff / Re: Rare SCI Games

« on: September 01, 2026, 07:22:53 PM »

I was looking at the EXEs from Hoyle 4. The Windows SCIW_V.EXE interpreter readily unpacks with unlzexe, but unlzexe fails to unpack the DOS SIERRA.EXE. Both of them seem to have been packed with PKWARE 1.03, so both my tool and Gumby's fail to extract the interpreter version for this SIERRA.EXE. At first It looked like that it was not packed since it has a lot readable strings as is, but I see no trace of a version number. Any ideas on what is going on? If it is packed, what can unpack it?

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The Games and other Sierra Adventure stuff / AGI versions List

« on: August 28, 2026, 02:24:24 PM »

As noted in another thread (), I noticed that while I had a Wiki page based on HWM's Sierra On-Line Interpreter Versions List for the SCI games, I did not have one for the AGI games. I am not sure if I never made one or if something was lost during the merging things to the new Wiki or what. I have made an AGI versions Wiki page, starting with the AGI section of HWM's Sierra On-Line Interpreter Versions List

https://wiki.sierrahelp.com/index.php/Sierra_AGI_Game_Versions

I have also added the releases from the hash tables from my Version Tool. These he hash tables started from the ScummVM hash tables and has been added to from my own games and those from other contributions by users. I have not retrieved whatever has been added to ScummVM since, so there may be entries that could be added. There are probably also duplicates will need to be removed. Then I can  merge the lists.

HWM's list broke entries down by interpreter version, while my hash table was arranged alphabetically so I could more easily find entries for editing/corrections and editing. eventually I'll arrange the entries from my tool by interp versions to match the HWM tables and merge them.

If you look at the tables you will notice a few missing entries. These missing entries have been tag with references. I welcome anyone that can help with whatever information you can provide.