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Classic Browser Adventuring Goes Open Source
Conrad Sheldon writes "Just a few days after the one year anniversary of its launch, 'adventure gaming engine in a browser' Good Old Adventures has gone open source. This means that you can now create your very own browser-running Sierra On-Line format AGI games, and incorporate them into your web site - it works with the alternative SCI-formatted games as well. With some more work on the open source code by developers, perhaps it will even support SCUMM and other engines some day. The possibilities are virtually endless. Let the adventures begin..." We previously featured this project earlier last year, and it should be noted the source "does not come with the multiplayer libraries, but it is the fully playable... singleplayer version of what is online here." -
GBA Gets Unofficial Sierra Adventure Game Emulator
Thanks to ShackNews for pointing out the Game Boy Advance Adventure Game Interpreter (GBAGI) webpage, which features an "interpreter/emulator/software that runs... Sierra's original animated adventure games on the Nintendo Game Boy Advance." The software's maker flew down to meet with Sierra owner Vivendi regarding official GBA releases, but mentions: "VUG(Vivendi Universal Games), who are affiliated with Blizzard Entertainment, had just released two classic ports to the Game Boy Advance, The Lost Vikings and Blackthorne, which both did not do too well. This is why they were now a bit standoff-ish about [official GBA carts]." Therefore, the downloads page includes "GBAGI ROMs packed in with demos that are freely available", as well as instructions on how to "to build GBA ROMs with AGI games [that you own]." -
GBA Gets Unofficial Sierra Adventure Game Emulator
Thanks to ShackNews for pointing out the Game Boy Advance Adventure Game Interpreter (GBAGI) webpage, which features an "interpreter/emulator/software that runs... Sierra's original animated adventure games on the Nintendo Game Boy Advance." The software's maker flew down to meet with Sierra owner Vivendi regarding official GBA releases, but mentions: "VUG(Vivendi Universal Games), who are affiliated with Blizzard Entertainment, had just released two classic ports to the Game Boy Advance, The Lost Vikings and Blackthorne, which both did not do too well. This is why they were now a bit standoff-ish about [official GBA carts]." Therefore, the downloads page includes "GBAGI ROMs packed in with demos that are freely available", as well as instructions on how to "to build GBA ROMs with AGI games [that you own]."