Re: Porting Manhunter II To The IIgs (AGI)

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Tempest wrote:
> On Sep 4, 6:57 am, Mark McDougall <msmcd...@no.spam.iinet> wrote:
> > Tempest wrote:
> > > This
> > > got me to thinking, doesn't the Sierra Adventure Game Interpreter
> > > (AGI) work the same way?
> > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_Game_Interpreter>
> >
> > Someone recently did a similar thing with a bunch of previously unported
> > Sierra games for the TRS-80 Coco...
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > --
> > |              Mark McDougall                | "Electrical Engineers do it
> > |  <http://members.iinet.net.au/~msmcdoug>   |   with less resistance!"
>
> That's right, I had forgotten about that.  IIRC only Kings Quest 3 had
> been ported to the CoCo and they used that code to port other games.
> Pretty nifty!  You'd think that the CoCo fan club would be even
> smaller than the IIgs's though.  Labor of love I guess...

The CoCo community was always smaller.  And since that machine uses
a unique microprocessor (6809) and OS-9, users relied more on their own
developers for software and hardware.  What remains of the group is more
technical/hobbyist than usual.

-michael

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