Rare SCI Games

[Threepwang]

You ninja'd me with this, so I'll just make a separate post to make sure you see it: It's also possible that it's just the EGA thing. Are the others VGA?

I don't have the interpreter 1.SQ4.056 in VGA. Only in LOWRES-EGA. I think it's an interpreter specifically for a LOWRES-EGA edition. However, with the interpreter 1.SQ4.057, the game is in VGA in English, Spanish, as well as French. The German edition uses the interpreter 1.SQ4.030.

[lskovlun]

You ninja'd me with this, so I'll just make a separate post to make sure you see it: It's also possible that it's just the EGA thing. Are the others VGA?

I don't have the interpreter 1.SQ4.056 in VGA. Only in LOWRES-EGA. I think it's an interpreter specifically for a LOWRES-EGA edition. However, with the interpreter 1.SQ4.057, the game is in VGA in English, Spanish, as well as French. The German edition uses the interpreter 1.SQ4.030.

Which is exactly what I was trying to say. OK then, it seems safe to assume that the only difference between 1.SQ4.056 and 1.SQ4.057 is the graphics mode. In fact, this should be discernible from the name of the executable (SCIDHUV.EXE for VGA, and I think SCIDUV.EXE for EGA?)

[Threepwang]

You ninja'd me with this, so I'll just make a separate post to make sure you see it: It's also possible that it's just the EGA thing. Are the others VGA?

I don't have the interpreter 1.SQ4.056 in VGA. Only in LOWRES-EGA. I think it's an interpreter specifically for a LOWRES-EGA edition. However, with the interpreter 1.SQ4.057, the game is in VGA in English, Spanish, as well as French. The German edition uses the interpreter 1.SQ4.030.

Which is exactly what I was trying to say. OK then, it seems safe to assume that the only difference between 1.SQ4.056 and 1.SQ4.057 is the graphics mode. In fact, this should be discernible from the name of the executable (SCIDHUV.EXE for VGA, and I think SCIDUV.EXE for EGA?)

The file in question is not present, but the interpreter 1.SQ4.056 is used for the LAWRES-EGA version of LSL1 Bilingual, Spanish/English, and the game includes the file SCIDUV.EXE. I conclude that this is the LAWRES-EGA edition SOLD SEPARATELY and not a box labeled VGA and EGA. Right?

[Collector]

Hmm, that might be a nice thing to add to the version detector then. Does it contain debug symbols (Detectable by looking for NB00 and NB02 signatures) or the SCI debugger (detectable by looking for any number of telltale text strings). It's also possible that it's just the EGA thing. Are the others VGA?

I would love to add it to the tool. I am not quite sure about what to look for with the NB00 and NB02 signatures. A list of the text strings to get me started would help, too.

[lskovlun]

I would love to add it to the tool. I am not quite sure about what to look for with the NB00 and NB02 signatures. A list of the text strings to get me started would help, too.

The NB00 and NB02 markers are literally just those bytes in succession. They indicate the beginning of a Microsoft Codeview symbol table. The first executable I found with one of those was the Hoyle4 executable. I got a collection of EXE files from you at one point, so I know you have it 

[Collector]

Well, that was easy, thanks.

[Collector]

I noticed that I had a Wiki page based on HWM's Sierra On-Line Interpreter Versions List for the SCI games, but did not have one for the AGI games, so I converted the AGI portion of his list to a new Wiki page. https://wiki.sierrahelp.com/index.php/Sierra_AGI_Game_Versions There were a couple of releases that I am sure about. "AGI Tandy Demo (AKA Sierra Demos II)" and "Season Greetings From Tandy" I am tempted to assume that the "AGI Tandy Demo (AKA Sierra Demos II)" is https://wiki.sierrahelp.com/index.php/AGI_Demo_Pack_2 and the "Season Greetings From Tandy" is the 1986 "A Computer Christmas" AGI Christmas card https://wiki.sierrahelp.com/index.php/Computer_Christmas

Does anyone have any better information and if they are not these releases, does anyone have either of the releases that HWM was referring to?