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SCI Development Tools / Re: Vocab.000 file format

« on: September 21, 2010, 09:01:15 PM »

I can host it with the other SCI tools on SHP, if you like. As far as the format, might it make more sense to use XML? I love working with Excel, but it seems likely that it could add some odd formatting issues, i.e, like using Word to edit a simple ASCII INI file. If you really want to use Excel, perhaps import/export using CSV?

Anyway, nice to see someone developing new SCI tools.

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SCI Development Tools / Re: Hello!

« on: September 12, 2010, 05:06:05 AM »

Quote from: Omni on September 12, 2010, 03:20:30 AM

Awesome site Collector, I am not sure how I ever missed this in my searching for old SCI games or INN and the like.

I have just spent probably 2 hours reading and following links based on your page, to bad the VAGSoft site is no longer around, or that the version of it I found did not have the decompression algorithms I was looking for.

I have Faux INN and the Faux INN Source, I wish INN Revival had source or even exe's readily available.

Also I have the old desktop theme to "The Realm Online" on my external if that would be of any use to your theme listing.

I wish that all of the people that have developed SCI tools had left the source available. VAG's VMD Player was promising, but as with many of the SCI tools, not finished. With the inclusion of SCI into ScummVM, one of the developers was looking for the source to the Sierra Resource Viewer. The INN Revival server is often down, so it would be nice if its source was available before it goes the way of Faux INN. I am glad that you are picking up where Brian left off with SCI Studio VGA.

Oh, and I would appreciate anything you have that is Sierra related that I don't have on SHP.

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SCI Development Tools / Re: Hello!

« on: September 11, 2010, 09:42:37 PM »

Official Sierra Demos

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SCI Development Tools / Re: Hello!

« on: August 27, 2010, 02:25:24 PM »

Quote from: MusicallyInspired on August 27, 2010, 01:32:04 PM

I'd also suggest considering porting it so it is compilable under MinGW/MSYS and/or Dev++ as well for those of us without commercial IDEs.

If it compiles under Visual Studio it should compile under Express.

Quote from: MusicallyInspired on August 27, 2010, 01:32:04 PM

If you need an SCI game to test, there are plenty of fangames on this website. They're not VGA of course. You can buy some of the older Sierra adventure collections on both Steam and Good Old Games.

There are the free demos, too.

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

« on: August 22, 2010, 03:26:29 PM »

Quote from: gumby on August 22, 2010, 08:47:35 AM

3. Replace our phrase with a simpler noun (replace 'basket of goodies' with 'basketofgoodies' or something like it - it will have to be in our vocab file)

This is what I was thinking about when I asked if a variable could be declared from a string of more than one word.

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

« on: August 16, 2010, 11:34:57 PM »

This may seem like a silly response, given that I have not really looked at SCI scripting, but is it possible to declare a global variable that could be assigned a two word value?

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The Games and other Sierra Adventure stuff / Sierra's SCI EGA View Editor

« on: July 29, 2010, 05:17:27 PM »

I came across this and thought that some here would find it interesting:

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SCI Development Tools / Re: Bitmap to SCI background pic creator - command line version

« on: July 18, 2010, 04:37:58 PM »

On an aside, I wish that all of the source for these tools were available. Too many pop up and then are abandoned when the original author loses interest or time. The SCI Resource Viewer is a case in point, but there are others. At least Brian released the code for SCI studio VGA before he disappeared.

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