What are we working on?

[Kawa]

Because we're both proud of what we did, and your closing line made me smile.

[MusicallyInspired]

Don't take it that way. I don't think that's how he meant it. I like the art style!

[Kawa]

Every now and then I try to extend the GK1-style permanent icon bar into LSL6-style. And fail horribly

[Kawa]

While studying how the Sierra installer handled installing to hard drive, I found a little something in KQ6. So I added KQ6ART.AVI to the background archive as a bonus feature. Too bad it's not 640x480, huh?

[MusicallyInspired]

Yeah, what a tease.

[Kawa]

I've been studying the shit outta that installer. I just found out it does a bunch of tests to determine system capabilities and stores them in a bitfield, such as "is a particular model", "has an MPU-401 interface", "has a Sound Blaster", "has a MediaVision", and "current drive is a CD-ROM"... which considering that's the only place it does such a check iss probably how it knows to offer copying files to HDD instead of only saving RESOURCE.CFG. Not sure how it tells if it's running from a diskette though, but I'd just check if the current drive is < 2 (that'd be C:) and assume A: and B: are always diskette drives.

Kinda feel like writing a custom windowing toolkit with proper control objects, and porting my custom installer to it. Get some proper buttons in it instead of "press Y/N" prompts so you can use the mouse... Besides the main menu not being a list anymore, it'd look pretty much the same.

[lskovlun]

Kinda feel like writing a custom windowing toolkit with proper control objects, and porting my custom installer to it. Get some proper buttons in it instead of "press Y/N" prompts so you can use the mouse... Besides the main menu not being a list anymore, it'd look pretty much the same.

At which point, just having a Win32 app or whatever would be easier and just as good?

[Kawa]

But that wouldn't be a DOS app!

[MusicallyInspired]

"DOS app". That rubs me the wrong way. (those two terms together, not DOS programs themselves)

[Kawa]

I was on my phone, ready for sleep. Didn't think to write "program" and couldn't be arsed to write "lication".

[Kawa]

Ka-BOOM!

[MusicallyInspired]

I love this. Can this be made modular and customized to any game?

[Kawa]

It already works on any SCI0 through SCI11 game. It's a bit less modular than the original in that all the text is internal to the .exe file, as opposed to stored in install.hlp and install.txt, but equally game-specific in that it takes install.scr files for the actual "copy to disk" part.

Recent enhancements: title bars and dynamic-width menus, thus allowing the full name for the MT-32 option, also buttons instead of "press this or that" prompts. There's no mouse control for those, but you can use left/right/tab, enter/escape, and if it's a yes/no question Y/N.

[lskovlun]

Kawa, does this mean there's a game coming out soon? 

[Kawa]

No, but you can have the source to this installer and its binary by next week at the very latest if you want it.