Decompilation Archive

[EricOakford]

And here is the decompilation for LB2CD. All scripts can be compiled. It's ready for testing!

[Collector]

Great! What version of the game?

Edit: Never mind. I see it's in the readme.

[MusicallyInspired]

I'm really happy you're slowly getting through these. Hope you keep doing as many as possible! 

[Collector]

Some short ones that might not be as involved are the Nick's Picks. Again, anything that you want to take on that you don't have, let me know.

[Kawa]

Eugh, minigames. They make the decompiler give up so often, it seems...

[EricOakford]

Eugh, minigames. They make the decompiler give up so often, it seems...

The Nick's Picks might be a problem. Of the five, only Leisure Suit Larry's Casino has a selector table. Also, they are missing certain scripts like SAVE, hence why Game's save: and restore: methods don't decompile. I came across this problem with other games like the 1992 Christmas Card. Transplanting the missing scripts allowed them to decompile properly.

[Kawa]

I was more worried about the decompiler giving up and spawning asm blocks.

[Collector]

I wonder if Omer might have the source for any of these? If so, I wonder if it would allow a glimpse into these issues that could help with the others Nick's.

[EricOakford]

I wonder if Omer might have the source for any of these? If so, I wonder if it would allow a glimpse into these issues that could help with the others Nick's.

Probably not, but these are stripped down versions of the full games. I could use the full games' selector tables to help in decompiling Nick's Picks.

King Graham's Board Game challenge = hoyle3
Roger Wilco's Spaced Out Game Pack = sq4
Leisure Suit Larry's Casino = lsl1
Parlor Games with Laura Bow = (doesn't decompile right at all)
Robin Hood's Game of Skill and Change = RH

They all appear to have been built on June 5, 1992, well after their full games.

[OmerMor]

I wonder if Omer might have the source for any of these?

Unfortunately, I don't.

[EricOakford]

I wonder if Omer might have the source for any of these?

Unfortunately, I don't.

Yeah, I thought not. If a game doesn't have a vocab.997, and the one in another game isn't fully compatible, I can't do a decompilation of it.

On the plus side, I've just put up a decompilation of the KQ7 demo. It plays to completion with no known issues. And I've noticed that there's a LOT of placeholder messages and unused code in the scripts, suggesting that it was based off of a beta build.

[MusicallyInspired]

What about the released Sierra tools that can compile vocab resources? Could that be used in some way I wonder?

[Kawa]

What about the released Sierra tools that can compile vocab resources? Could that be used in some way I wonder?

Way I understand it, the issue is that the correct vocabs are missing altogether. Does it really matter how replacements are acquired when you don't know if they'll be correct?

[lskovlun]

Well, it's quite easy to write a vocab file from scratch without the original tools. And the system classes are known, for the most part. So if these weren't just ripped-out parts of games that we can decompile, a custom tool to fill in parts of the puzzle would be quite doable. As it is, I'm not sure it's worth the trouble.

[EricOakford]

And here's the decompilation for Larry's Casino. I haven't found any issues as of yet. It's much like LSL1 with a bit of LSL5 thrown in, both of which I've already got covered.