[Coco] Sierra games with sound!!

[Boisy Pitre]

I salute you Guillaume.  This is a fantastic development, and makes  
these games completely playable on a CoCo 3.  Great work.

My interest is to get the modified VOL files checked into the  
NitrOS-9 Project.  Perhaps we can email personally.
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On Jul 20, 2006, at 6:05 PM, Guillaume Major wrote:

> Good news: I managed to figure out the sound format used by the AGI  
> coco
> interpreter. So I wrote a utility to convert the sounds to the coco  
> format
> and it worked! Now KQ1, KQ2, SQ1 and SQ2 are fully playable with  
> sound! I
> had to remove some of them though. I removed the ones that were  
> played in
> the background (because the game would have been paused forever) and I
> removed some loops in the logics code to allow some sounds to only  
> play
> once.
>
> You can download the games from my web server at:
> http://goyim.dyndns.org:8080/coco. I made the source code of my
> modifications available in the Sources folder.
>
> For those interested, I wrote 3 utilities that will help you  
> converting
> Sierra game for the Coco:
>
> - cc3snd to convert AGI sound files to the coco format
> - sndpatch to patch the VOL files with the new sound files
> - picpatch to remove plot commands (0xFA) from picture resources
>
> You can download them from the AGI Utilities folder.
>
> Now I'm trying to get Police Quest 1 to work but I'm getting a lot  
> of weird
> errors...
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Guillaume
>
>
>
>
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