Adventure game nerd and sometimes ScummVM developer. (Did I just repeat myself?)
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Last Notes npub1syat4z934k54g08xtl7u5985gye3p0p7gluyfsk67j20wkpack2s4d858r Torbjörn Andersson I realize it's tongue-in-cheek, but I don't think there was ever a time where Sierra-On-Line's text parser was "the best I've ever seen". npub1syat4z934k54g08xtl7u5985gye3p0p7gluyfsk67j20wkpack2s4d858r Torbjörn Andersson Dear #LucasFilmGames, npub1syat4z934k54g08xtl7u5985gye3p0p7gluyfsk67j20wkpack2s4d858r Torbjörn Andersson Followup: ScummVM developer and SCI Guru sluicebox has fixed this in the development version of ScummVM. (I knew my proof-of-concept patch could be refined!) npub1syat4z934k54g08xtl7u5985gye3p0p7gluyfsk67j20wkpack2s4d858r Torbjörn Andersson Am I missing something obvious, or did Sierra really put an unsolvable 15 puzzle into Pepper's Adventures in Time? If it was one of their regular games I'd look for some alternate solution, probably involving a slide rule, a tricorn hat, and a red panda. But this was a game for children. npub1syat4z934k54g08xtl7u5985gye3p0p7gluyfsk67j20wkpack2s4d858r Torbjörn Andersson Today marks the 22nd anniversary of the cease and desist email sent by LucasArts to the ScummVM developers, asking for the project to be taken down. My first exposure to ScummVM was Slashdot reporting on that story. npub1syat4z934k54g08xtl7u5985gye3p0p7gluyfsk67j20wkpack2s4d858r Torbjörn Andersson It's no secret, but Gabriel Knight 1 contains a 20 minute "The Making of Gabriel Knight" documentary (makinggk.avi). Unfortunately, even at 120+ MB (a considerable chunk of the CD!), it's still only 160x120 pixels. npub1syat4z934k54g08xtl7u5985gye3p0p7gluyfsk67j20wkpack2s4d858r Torbjörn Andersson EcoQuest 1: The Search for Cetus, by Sierra On-Line. npub1syat4z934k54g08xtl7u5985gye3p0p7gluyfsk67j20wkpack2s4d858r Torbjörn Andersson I also did not expect the Spanish Inquis... I mean, the Dead Parrot Sketch. npub1syat4z934k54g08xtl7u5985gye3p0p7gluyfsk67j20wkpack2s4d858r Torbjörn Andersson Also, is it just me or is that one evil-looking mutt? npub1syat4z934k54g08xtl7u5985gye3p0p7gluyfsk67j20wkpack2s4d858r Torbjörn Andersson For ages I've heard good things about Pepper's Adventures in Time, and now I finally managed to get my hands on a copy of it. I don't know what I expected, but certainly not that art style. npub1syat4z934k54g08xtl7u5985gye3p0p7gluyfsk67j20wkpack2s4d858r Torbjörn Andersson Some of the Sierra games that ScummVM supports but which, to the best of my knowledge, you currently can't buy anywhere. npub1syat4z934k54g08xtl7u5985gye3p0p7gluyfsk67j20wkpack2s4d858r Torbjörn Andersson There's also a copy of EcoQuest 1: The Search for Cetus, but this one's strange. ScummVM detects it as the CD version, then complains that it's corrupt. npub1syat4z934k54g08xtl7u5985gye3p0p7gluyfsk67j20wkpack2s4d858r Torbjörn Andersson The main program - I think - is made up of a lot of .stk, .itk, and .adi files. It could be the "Gob" engine, but ScummVM doesn't recognize it. Trying it in Wine, it looks like the kind of edutainment title you'd expect. There's also a demo of The Incredible Machine. npub1syat4z934k54g08xtl7u5985gye3p0p7gluyfsk67j20wkpack2s4d858r Torbjörn Andersson Leading up to the 2016 US election, I replayed Steve Meretzky's caurionary tale, A Mind Forever Voyaging. It seemed appropriate at the time, for reasons that should be obvious to anyone who has ever played it.
