Re: Porting Manhunter II To The IIgs (AGI)

[Drew <GoggleDrew@gmail.com>]

On 3 Sep, 16:19, Tempest <temp...@atariprotos.com> wrote:
> Last week I was fiddiling around with the Lost Treasures of Infocom
> interpreter on the Apple IIgs, and I was able to get some Infocom
> games that were never released for the IIgs to work on it by simply
> copying the game files to where the interpreter could find them.  This
> got me to thinking, doesn't the Sierra Adventure Game Interpreter
> (AGI) work the same way?
>
> As you know, there was one AGI game that was never released for the
> Apple II/IIgs: Manuhunter II.  What I was wondering is, can you take
> the game files from a version that was released (say the PC or Amiga
> version), copy them to the IIgs, and then use the AGI interpreter that
> came with one of the IIgs Sierra games to run it?  I'm not sure if the
> AGI interpreter works the same with that the Infocom interpreter does,
> but something tells me that it can't be this easy.  I'm guessing that
> things like the music files wouldn't be in the right format.
>
> Also, has anyone looked into how hard it would be to SCI to the IIgs
> (with an accelerator of course)?  Given how obscure the IIgs is as a
> gaming platform, this is probably a pipe dream...
>
> Tempest

That would be kool if that could be done, though your right I doubt
there would be any music (unless someone wrote a custom AGI
interpreter). I have seen the game listed on the Apple IIGS fairway
(under unreleased) and had hoped that maybe Sierra finished it but
just didnt release it and some kind person would give it to the
community...nothing yet :-(. I might get a tinker to see if i can get
MH2 to work :-).

SCI would indeed be nice :-)...wish i could code at times lol. I
remember years ago writing to Sierra (was a big fan at the time) when
i heard that they had dropped IIGS support, and they took the time to
write me a nice long letter back saying that they would support the GS
if the demand was there with GS systems with Accelerator
cards...unfortuntaley with Apple dropping the system..hope was short
lived.

Drew