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Old Sierra Games Playable In Browser Through Open Source Game Engine
Lord Byron II writes "Like Quake III and Zork, Sarien.net has converted and made available many of the earlier Sierra adventure games. Currently, Space Quest, Police Quest, and Leisure Suit Larry are playable, and more are on the way. They are Javascript-based, and require no Flash. The site's creator, Martin Kool, said, 'To actually allow gameplay, I reverse engineered the original AGI interpreter in javascript. The reverse engineering process has been done before by others, and the best known existing interpreter (Sarien) has recently merged into ScummVM. Due to that, the interpreter mechanics were fairly well documented online.'"
It was also nice how if you had a certain system config, you'd get to the VERY END of KQ V and it would run out of memory, and Sierra wouldn't patch the stupid thing.
I loved Leisure Suit Larry. See, there was a little quiz built-in before you got to first run the game, in which it asked you questions to prove you were an adult. Me, being about 7 years old when I first played it, found it endlessly amusing that I knew the answers to the 'adult questions.' I actually blew the original install diskettes because passing those quizzes was more fun than the actual game.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
:) The 'lot of Larries' is not a bug.. It's multiplayer LSL. Those are other players.
Nothing like playing through 20 hours of a game just to discover you forgot to pick up the stick on the beach within the first 5 minutes of the game, and then having to restart the whole thing.
It wasn't a stick, it was a pie.
Gr.
The most well known attempt to create an interpreter for SCI games, FreeSCI, has recently been merged into the ScummVM project. Development has been going on rapidly since then, and some SCI games are already completable, with support for more to follow.
Note though that this is only in the daily SVN builds, not in the 0.13 stable builds.
> That was my last adventure game.
You should give the old LucasArts adventures a try. They were specifically designed so that you could never get stuck or lose the game or get killed for stupid reasons. It meant you could relax and enjoy the game's story, and it was almost always well worth it.
You can play over 140 dos games in your browser here: http://www.classicdosgames.com/online.php Once they incorporate JPC's new applet snapshot facility it will have instant load time as well.