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SCI Development Tools / Re: Copyright state with games created in SCICompanion

« Last post by Cloudee1 on January 31, 2026, 01:44:20 AM »

Looking at Phil's Steam page, I don't think he is using any Sierra tech, pretty sure that is his own thing. If you notice the auto suggest when typing, pretty sure that's not SCI0... just resembles it

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SCI Development Tools / Re: Copyright state with games created in SCICompanion

« Last post by robbo007 on January 30, 2026, 04:33:36 PM »

It must be in the air

I did try and approach Microsoft to see if they hold the rights but I was not successful. Do we really know who owns the rights to the system code?

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SCI Development Tools / Re: Copyright state with games created in SCICompanion

« Last post by Cloudee1 on January 30, 2026, 02:56:12 PM »

It's pretty weird that this topic has been brought up.

I was just looking into trying to create something specifically to put up on Steam, mostly out of curiosity to see what would happen.

I finished enough of my design doc yesterday that I even started to program a few of the rooms to get the world travelable.

I keep telling myself that I want to have it done and ready to publish by the end of June. I haven't worked out the milestones yet to see if I can hit that deadline but I am pretending that I can

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SCI Development Tools / Re: Copyright state with games created in SCICompanion

« Last post by robbo007 on January 30, 2026, 11:51:31 AM »

Yeah that's what I was worried about. Everything under the hood. Anyone know how Icefall Games is doing it. Phil seems to has his for sale on Steam.

I was going to try a Adventure / RPG style game. I've always loved those.

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SCI Development Tools / Re: Copyright state with games created in SCICompanion

« Last post by lskovlun on January 30, 2026, 10:47:25 AM »

Frankly I'd be more concerned about the "system" code.

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SCI Development Tools / Re: Copyright state with games created in SCICompanion

« Last post by Kawa on January 30, 2026, 09:59:52 AM »

Yeah, selling the games would muddy the waters a bunch. With freeware at least you have the excuse that, well, it's free, and it's a 30-something year old system.

Roland may be proactive about their ROMs, but until Sierra or whoever holds the rights at this time start making requests I'd just stick with freeware distribution.

(Besides, you don't need MT32 ROMs to play. Whatcha gonna do, include a copy of Munt? A shortcut to an eBay search for real MT32? I'd say just offer General MIDI and keep the MT32 as a bonus for whoever already has the ability to play that.)

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SCI Development Tools / Re: Copyright state with games created in SCICompanion

« Last post by robbo007 on January 30, 2026, 09:50:59 AM »

I believe it's the MT-32 ROM that would be a copyright concern, just don't include it. MT32.DRV and SCIV.EXE are in the SCICompanion template games, so I wouldn't worry about those.

Yeah, I've seen Roland actively requesting people to no include their roms in bundles.

Is SCIV.EXE reverse engineered or is it the original EXE compiled at Sierra? The driver .DRV files do look originals so they might be a concern.

I'm not worried with my LSL4 as will be Freeware but was thinking of commercially realising a new game/IP later on.

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Everything-Else / Re: What's up peeps!

« Last post by russdanner on January 30, 2026, 09:13:34 AM »

Awesome. Everyone is busy busy I'm being lazy. Of course Space Quest 1 turns 40 in October..... Might have to not be lazy.  I've been kind of holding off on the AGI-AI integration front. I'd like the smaller models to get a little faster... if that makes sense, A big slow reasoning model isn't needed for a Sierra game and no amount of reasoning is going to figure out a moon logic puzzle so I'm more interested in the small models.

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SCI Development Tools / Re: Copyright state with games created in SCICompanion

« Last post by doomlazer on January 29, 2026, 11:14:01 PM »

I believe it's the MT-32 ROM that would be a copyright concern, just don't include it. MT32.DRV and SCIV.EXE are in the SCICompanion template games, so I wouldn't worry about those.

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SCI Development Tools / Copyright state with games created in SCICompanion

« Last post by robbo007 on January 29, 2026, 12:47:09 PM »

Hi guys,
What is the accepted/legal practice for distributing original games made with SCICompanion? If you bundle with the drivers like mt32.drv etc and the sciv.exe would this breach copyright? I'm not sure who now holds the copyright for the drivers files and sciv.exe?