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The Games and other Sierra Adventure stuff / Re: How'd they do that?

« on: June 15, 2010, 12:07:08 PM »

I asked about this years ago on the original Mega-Tokyo forums. Unfortunately, the scrolling screen transitions are an exclusive to SCI01+ engines and aren't available with the current SCI0 template game.

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The Games and other Sierra Adventure stuff / Re: Point & Click ... The Black Cauldron

« on: June 08, 2010, 05:08:39 PM »

Does your laptop not have a Function key combination with some letters to emulate the numpad?

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The Games and other Sierra Adventure stuff / Re: Point & Click ... The Black Cauldron

« on: June 03, 2010, 01:26:59 AM »

I've played the original but not beaten it. That said, I have seen the movie so I'm not worried about it being blown.

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SCI Development Tools / Re: Looking for SCI Viewer source code

« on: May 26, 2010, 01:19:21 AM »

The original author of SCI Viewer appeared one day out of the blue on the Janitorial Times (and probably a couple other Sierra forums) and then after a few releases promptly disappeared. He never did release the source.

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The Games and other Sierra Adventure stuff / Re: Point & Click ... The Black Cauldron

« on: May 19, 2010, 06:44:23 PM »

Nice! I look forward to this.

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Everything-Else / Re: Valve's Portal is free for PC and Mac gamers until May 24th!

« on: May 12, 2010, 11:47:26 PM »

More big news! Steam has finally been ported to Linux! There are already a few already Linux-ported games supported such as Unreal Tournament 2004 and a few id Software titles. The first Valve games to launch on Linux will be HL2, Counter-Strike Source, and Team Fortress 2.

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Everything-Else / Get Portal for free and Steam officially ported to Linux!

« on: May 12, 2010, 06:49:26 PM »

http://store.steampowered.com/freeportal/

Go get it now if you don't own it! This isn't a temporary deal. It is a temporary offer, but once you buy it (for free) you own it. Even after the due date is passed. Go and get it now even if you're computer can't play it! Someday maybe you'll get a good enough computer so you can play it and you'll thank your lucky stars that you managed to take advantage of this incredible deal while it was free!

Those of you who don't know what Portal is....you're beyond help.

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The Games and other Sierra Adventure stuff / Re: King's Quest II SCI Remake (in development)

« on: May 10, 2010, 02:59:58 PM »

Interesting...

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The Games and other Sierra Adventure stuff / Re: King's Quest II SCI Remake (in development)

« on: May 10, 2010, 02:15:27 PM »

Interesting. Is it a remake of a fangame or a Sierra original?

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The Games and other Sierra Adventure stuff / Re: King's Quest II SCI Remake (in development)

« on: May 10, 2010, 10:15:46 AM »

It's easy when you're using AGI placeholder graphics . I'm not drawing in priority or control lines or anything. Just a few control colours for triggering events.

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SCI Syntax Help / Re: Using the avoid script

« on: May 10, 2010, 10:14:03 AM »

I posted my own questions about this ages ago and never got an answer. How I wish we had members who knew SCI code backwards and forwards....

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The Games and other Sierra Adventure stuff / Re: King's Quest II SCI Remake (in development)

« on: May 09, 2010, 01:34:27 AM »

Programmed all the way up to the lion at the top of the tower today. He's giving me a lot of grief. Programming his random roars requires a lot more code, scripts, and variables than I had originally anticipated. And now I'm running into a bug where he eats you even though he falls asleep.....but it just sits there and the code doesn't tell the game to go on to the death handler. Bizarre. I'm so tired right now, though. So I'll handle it another day...

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The Games and other Sierra Adventure stuff / Re: King's Quest II SCI Remake (in development)

« on: May 08, 2010, 11:30:26 AM »

Yes. I used the DOSBox codec to record this.

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The Games and other Sierra Adventure stuff / Re: King's Quest II SCI Remake (in development)

« on: May 08, 2010, 11:24:20 AM »

Ah yes, that's my video. I posted it ages ago after the community went down. It's fairly old, though. I didn't have near as many things programmed in then and even the graphics have been touched up since. Maybe I should make a new video once a couple more backgrounds are complete. There's also a video of the new introduction sequence.

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SCI Syntax Help / Re: How to use Qualifying Adjectives with the parser?

« on: May 07, 2010, 10:01:24 PM »

It's still going to be frustrating for players who will instinctively type "get gold key" only to have it fail on them. I had the same problem with trying to type "get basket of goodies" at the mailbox. In the end I had to just do "get basket" and "get goodies". ANNOYING!