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On November 24, 2022, Math Blaster Episodes 1 and 2 became available on digital distribution for the first time ever, on the ZOOM Platform. While Episode 2 has a 32-bit Windows version that can be made to run on 64-bit Windows with minimal hassle, Episode 1 does not. As a result, it required...

WOW! It's been a year since I last posted here, but there hasn't been much of interest to talk about. At least, nothing I'm ready to share just yet. But now it looks like ScummVM and DOSBox are facing some competition on the SCUMMy side. DREAMM (DOS Retro Emulation Arena for Maniac Mansion) is...

UPDATE: Simpler archives that just contain the needed registry files and SmartHeap are now available. Obviously, the different Atlas engine versions can't just be mixed and matched because the games' personality files had to be built for a specific version. It took some work, but I've released...

It seems like someone at Davidson accidentally shipped a development file for Mega Math Blaster onto a retail CD! That's right, my CD of Math Blaster Ages 6-9, a 1998 re-release of Mega Math Blaster that I got as a kid, contains a file called MEGAMB.APP. You can view it here. I've been trying...

My original plan was to do an SCI remake of the game, but cloudee1, the admin of SCIProgramming, has made his return and upgraded his site. He was also working on his own remake of the first three SQ games plus the fan sequels 0 and TLC. He hasn't made progress with TLC, due to its massive size...

I've just started a new decompilation archive for AGI games. Check it out here.

Most SCI games keep track of CPU speed. They do this at startup in a room commonly known as speedTest, and save the recorded speed in a global variable commonly known as machineSpeed. Initially, there was no upper limit. This leads to bugs in Leisure Suit Larry 3. In the exercise room, the...

I've just been informed on Mixnmojo of a set of utilities called Nutcracker. It's a set of tools for editing resources in SCUMM games. Its decompiler outputs code that very closely matches that of the original SCUMM syntax, as shown in the official SCUMM documentation. If this were an IDE, it'd...

The decompilations for Maniac Mansion V1 and V2 are complete. All that is needed are comments describing what is going on. Next up, Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders!

Restarting a 16-bit SCI game is pretty simple. In Game:restart... (method (restart) (if modelessDialog (modelessDialog dispose:) ) (RestartGame) ) In other words, it clears any modeless dialog, and invokes the kernel call RestartGame to clear...

This is the official SCI01 Template thread. Discuss improvements, feature requests, or bugs here.

This is the official SCI0 Template Redux thread. Discuss improvements, feature requests, or bugs here.

This is the official SCI Companion thread. Discuss improvements, feature requests, or bugs here.

Here's my first SCUMM-related discovery! One of the things you need to keep track of in Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders is your characters' CashCard balance. Just like reality! The best way for Zak to replenish his savings is to play the lottery, which only he can do. You can rig the...

Microsoft is on a roll. The company previously acquired Zenimax, Bethesda and id's parent company, as well as Double Fine. Soon to become part of the Xbox family is Activision-Blizzard, for the price of $68.7 billion. The company is behind franchises such as Call of Duty, Warcraft, Starcraft...

In Leisure Suit Larry 2, an oversight in the game's vocab makes it so that mere "put bag in bottle" doesn't work... supposedly. From the Leisure Suit Larry Collection's readme: Is there any truth to this? Let's find out. The most common version of the game (the one included in collections) is...

Now when you go to the root directory, you'll find all the threads in the news forum. Check back every now and then for adventure game-related news!

KQ4 and LSL2, the first-ever SCI games, did not have many of the luxuries that later games did. For starters, there were no special procedures to handle event flags. All events were flagged using global variables directly. This way is obviously inefficient and a waste of heap space. To address...

We all know how, in the original Leisure Suit Larry, the title character would commit suicide if he didn't lose his virginity by sunrise. I even uploaded a video of this on YouTube. But what causes this? When does it happen? Does sleeping with the prostitute prevent it? And can this happen in...

I'm planning to move the various resources over from SCIProgramming to the new board. I've been taking account of things that I could bring over... Arcade Doesn't work at all. Probably don't need it anyway. Shop Uses SMFShop. I can replace this with trophies, which are standard in...