[Coco] Re: Sierra games with sound!!

[Charlie]

Wow, I just played through KQ1 and was working on KQ2. I'm going to replay 
KQ1 again with sound.

I'm having trouble making the kq1-2.dsk. DSKINI from the Nitros9 web page 
gives a write error on track 2.
So I used mess to copy the files to a blank /D /T40 image and tried again. 
Same write error. No matter what image I copy the files from kq1-2 to, I get 
the error. I did rename the image .os9 before playing with it in MESS.
I have a blank image DSDD.OS9 and I can dskini that to a disk no problem. 
When I copy the files from kq1-2.dsk to the same image it gets an error 
writing track 2.

I had similar trouble doing the non-sound version and fixed it by copying 
the disk 2 files to a blank image in mess and Nitros9. This time its not 
working.

HELP!!!! :-)

Charlie

"Guillaume Major" <gmajor at videotron.ca> wrote in 
message news:e9p27j$ent$1 at sea.gmane.org...
> 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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