INN - LSCIDump

[CTxCB]

Omer has most of the variants of TSN/INN on his Google drive unless he has removed them.

Looking at Omer's OneDrive with previous INN Versions (https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=adf7c3cd5da3ba15&id=ADF7C3CD5DA3BA15%21212), they all seem to not work with SCI Companion, giving the same kind of problems / errors... I couldn't try TSN (The Sierra Network), because it apparently doesn't use .MAP Files). I tried them all with the Sierra Resource Viewer as well, and the only one to even be read was TSN, which was made back in 1990, and the only thing readable on that was a handful of .pat (Patch) files.

[OmerMor]

I'm glad my TSN/INN archive is useful to someone. 

I'd also love to be able to view/read/listen to the LSCI resources.

[troflip]

Ok, it looks like the sound resources couldn't be opened just because the package file (resource.002) is missing. I was looking in the ARENA folder.

This time I tried the LL folder, and the sounds in there worked. SCI Companion was able to load and play most of them (4 out of 46 is listed as corrupted).

SCI Companion isn't able to export midi, so I extracted a snd resource, then loaded it as a single file in SV.exe, which is able to export to midi. Attached!

So you'll at least be able to get somewhere with the next release of SCI Companion.

[CTxCB]

Ok, it looks like the sound resources couldn't be opened just because the package file (resource.002) is missing. I was looking in the ARENA folder.

This time I tried the LL folder, and the sounds in there worked. SCI Companion was able to load and play most of them (4 out of 46 is listed as corrupted).

SCI Companion isn't able to export midi, so I extracted a snd resource, then loaded it as a single file in SV.exe, which is able to export to midi. Attached!

So you'll at least be able to get somewhere with the next release of SCI Companion.

Awesome. I look forward to seeing some form of LSCI Support for viewing / playing / reading resources in a future version of SCI Companion. Good luck on your future work on SCI Companion, I'm glad that you've finally came back to it and are breathing new life into a seemingly dying community... I'll give suggestions for features or improvements to SCI Companion whenever I have them in the appropriate places. But for now, I suggest redoing your site when you have a final version of SCI Companion 3.x.x.x

[MusicallyInspired]

SCI Community should get some kind of facelift as well. At the very least changing some of the example images from EGA resource editing to VGA resource editing would give it a fresh indication of what's now possible. SCI creation in general has had the reputation of being EGA only for a very long time.

[Kawa]

SCI Community should get some kind of facelift as well. At the very least changing some of the example images from EGA resource editing to VGA resource editing would give it a fresh indication of what's now possible. SCI creation in general has had the reputation of being EGA only for a very long time.

Hear, hear.

[troflip]

But for now, I suggest redoing your site when you have a final version of SCI Companion 3.x.x.x

No doubt. scicompanion.com is available!

edit: and now registered

[troflip]

Can anyone suggest a good "app" to manage the scicompanion.com website? I guess by default I'd use wordpress, although it's not really going to be a blog.

It'll just be a place to download the latest scicompanion, give an overview, and host documentation. No forums or tutorials, I'll just point people to sciprogramming.com.

[Kawa]

If that's all you need it for, I don't think an "app" is called for. If you just want to include common bits and pieces, PHP (include("header.html");) or server-side includes (<!--#include file="header.html" -->, I use those!) is enough.

[troflip]

Yeah but I want something for which I can find a nice theme and works well on different browsers and different platforms (mobile, etc...) with minimal effort. Making webpages by hand is very 1990s.

My webhost has a number of oneclick installs:
- wordpress
- joomla
- concrete5
- MODx Evolution
- Omeka
and lots of othes that seem less relevant.

[Kawa]

Well, consider me stuck in the 90's.  If you want a nice looking responsive theme, you still don't need any of that stuff you just listed.

[MusicallyInspired]

Weebly is a free host with design templates and you can point it to a domain.

[troflip]

Thanks for the weebly suggestion! I've already pay for hosting, so I'm just gonna add scicompanion.com to my existing webhost's domains. It's simple to install wordpress there and I'm used to that, so that's probably the most straightforward option.

On an unrelated note, I think I've deciphered how to save SCI2 views. Reading them is not problem (same format as SCI1.1 for the actual image data), but writing them in a way SCI expects was not easy - there's a whole bunch of data at the end of the view which is apparently very important. And I've just figured out what it is. SCI Companion won't have official SCI2 support, but it will be able to read everything (except for movies), and I've been able to save messages, text, and pics back to the resource packages. I assume scripts would work, but I haven't tried. And now, hopefully, views will work.

[MusicallyInspired]

Cool.

[Kawa]

"It can load and save just about all the important things in SCI2 but it's not officially supported."

Ell-oh-ell.