Old Sierra Games Playable In Browser Through Open Source Game Engine

Posted by Soulskill on Friday April 24, 2009 @05:19PM from the we-all-know-which-game-you're-going-to-try-first dept.

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.'"

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you could do this 2 years ago... by Ianopolous · 2009-04-25 01:18 · Score: 5, Informative

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.