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Mega Tokyo SCI Archive / Re:Extracting SCI3 / SCI32

« on: September 17, 2003, 05:26:44 PM »

Hi!

But now that I have the files... is there any way to convert them? Or even just play/watch them?

Simple graphics viewer for SCI1.1/32 available at same place where you found SCIResDump (probably), look for ViewsViewer there...

-VAG

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Mega Tokyo SCI Archive / Re:Rare SCI games

« on: August 01, 2003, 02:01:59 PM »

Hi!

Lsl7 is not hacked! It is an official translation by Akella!

You wrong. Akella never sold it officially. There is no any info about this game on Akella's website. This is very proof, but still `unofficial official` translation.

-VAG

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Mega Tokyo SCI Archive / Re:Rare SCI games

« on: July 31, 2003, 02:10:21 PM »

Hi!

Is it (the russian lsl7) an official release or a hacked one?

Hacked one, but very well (mean: EXCELLENT) translated. Translated just everything (and voices of course) + jokes adapted to russian audience
Anyway. Few days ago SoftClub company finished translating of Torin's Passage game and it's available in stores now. I didn't checked it out yet, but i guess it will be very good.

-VAG

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Mega Tokyo SCI Archive / Re:SCI32 and Windows XP

« on: July 09, 2003, 12:47:52 PM »

Hi!

My main concern though, is getting lighthouse running, cuz it won't run at all. Just gives me a weird interpreter/script error, any way i can still get it to run on xp (and i've tried compatibility modes, they never do squat for me).

I had same probs with LH and Shivers2 on XP (but LSL7 works just fine there). On startup interepter crashes with error 105 in some script (don't remember exactly). DOS ports works just fine. But some times ago i played those games on XP without problems (on another machine). I guess it's caused by too fast CPU leads to overflow/etc in scripts. No ideas how to fix that atm

-VAG

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Mega Tokyo SCI Archive / Re:VMD player

« on: July 07, 2003, 05:25:37 AM »

Hi!

  At first, thank you all for your feedback  

Now my answers:

ok, one last question: how much harder is it to convert than decode? what i mean is, what about an option to convert vmds to a windows video format (like avi or mpeg)? Or is that way more advanced?

It's quite easy. It's even more simple than playing   I'll add .avi saving in the next release.

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Mega Tokyo SCI Archive / Re:VMD player

« on: June 27, 2003, 10:32:52 AM »

Hi!

I tried, but I couldn't get to the webpage.

The free hosting i'm currently use a bit unreliable outside russia. Sorry about this. If anybody wish to post VMD player or my other stuff on their pages, it would be quite nice.

-VAG

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Mega Tokyo SCI Archive / Re:Over a month...

« on: June 27, 2003, 10:28:58 AM »

Hi!

Shish really can't donate money. Many Russian people don't have credit cards.

That's not true. If he live in quite big city, it's not a problem to make a credit card in russia at all.

Others have cards that are not supported in Europe and USA.

Not supported?! Probably STB cards only...

-VAG

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Mega Tokyo SCI Archive / Re:POLL: Your favourite Sierra game developer?

« on: June 24, 2003, 10:59:55 AM »

Hi!

I'm going to e-mail to a winner of this poll.

Where is Jane Jensen ?

-VAG

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Mega Tokyo SCI Archive / Re:VMD player

« on: June 18, 2003, 08:33:12 AM »

Hi!

Looks great! I noticed that there is no sound support yet... do you have some preliminary sound code or would you like to "borrow" mine (which "almost" works)?

Actually, i coded all sound-decoding routines, except main playback engine... (Probably i can implement `disk-writer` atm) But i'll glad to take a look at your code anyway

-VAG

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Mega Tokyo SCI Archive / VMD player

« on: June 18, 2003, 05:14:00 AM »

Hi!

  I just posted early beta of VMD player. If anybody wish to help me with it's testing/improving, just mail me.

  You can download player and my other SCI-related stuff here: http://vagsoft.chat.ru/sci.html . (Site _very_ slow

-VAG

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Mega Tokyo SCI Archive / Re:What engine runs SQ6?

« on: June 14, 2003, 09:03:46 AM »

Hi!

Why SCI32? I played Space Quest 6 in DOS. It is another SCI version, and it is not compatible with standard Windows SCI interpreters.

Both DOS and Windows executables of SQ6 marked as `May 24 1995  2.100.002`. It's SCI32 v2.0 as you can see....

-VAG

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Mega Tokyo SCI Archive / First appearance of VMD and RBT resources

« on: June 02, 2003, 03:35:08 AM »

Hi!

  I'm writing specifications of SCI's RBT (Robots) and VMD (Video) resources now. But to make specs as complete as possible, i'm trying to find earlier verion of that resources, because in all RBTs i have, resource version already 4 or newer. If anybody wish to help me, please leave me message...

PSP:
  To keep this forum tidy, you can send it to my private box here.

-VAG

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Mega Tokyo SCI Archive / Re:More about Russian SCI...

« on: May 30, 2003, 12:22:24 PM »

Hi!

  Little update (i'm totally forgot about it). About 1-2 years ago one SCI games has been offically released in russia. It's fully localized game Phantasmagoria 1 published by SoftClub comany. You can find more info here http://russo.ag.ru/official/125/ Page in russian, but you'll find few screnshots and sound samples there.

-VAG

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Mega Tokyo SCI Archive / Re:More about Russian SCI...

« on: May 30, 2003, 12:09:10 PM »

Hi!

LSL1 Remake, SQ1 Remake, SQ4, SQ5.
Somebody else translated:
LSL 7 (trnsl by Akella) and SQ 6...
AGI games:
KQ2, PQ1, SQ2, KQ3 by A. Malyshko...

Also available Torin's passage (subtitles), LightHouse and King's Quest 7 (voiceover) by unknown translators. (Last two games comes in very bad quality  )

-VAG

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Mega Tokyo SCI Archive / Re:SCI32/SCIW

« on: July 22, 2002, 04:44:24 AM »

Hi!

VAG can i take a look at your decompressor?

 I will release it today or tomorrow - need to finally test my SCI1/32 resource extractor. Also, i need to find a web space where i can put all my stuff...
 Yesterday rewrote few parts of algo, now it works much faster than before. Also, i have rewritten PKWDCL unpacking algo, it may be useful for SCI1 unpacking.

do you have icq or anything where i can contact you off the boards?

 You can contact me via ICQ #112387720 (13:30-21:00 GMT+3 at workdays) or via e-mail: vagsoft#mail.ru

 If someone works with SCI32 now, please contact me.

-VAG