For those who are interested, the code I referred to has been found. It has been up on Wikipedia for the past 3 years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ASierra%27s_Creative_Interpreter#Examples It is also here: http://web.archive.org/web/20050205191150/http://www.classicgaming.com/agisci/swatcode....

Thanks for this. I have been a bit slack keeping an eye on replies to this post and have only just noticed your reply. I kept a good watch for the first few weeks.

Thanks again.

Yeah, I was wondering about how I would do the thumbnails in the file dialog. A custom file dialog sounds like it would have to be the way to go, which might end up being a bit too much work. I'll have a look to see what is involved. I definitely don't want to make it a Windows only app, especially ...

I haven't really tidied up the textual content on the help pages since I converted the old C version to Java, so I am aware that there are some details on there that probably don't work the way they are described. For example, ESC no longer brings up the menu. This is because I decided that this was...

Is it just the wiki content? Or do you have the message forums as well? I know there was a lot of discussion about the old message forums over at www.sciprogramming.com. I'm fairly sure there are some people over there that would like to host it.

A few days ago I built and released the second milestone release of PICEDIT 1.3. This gives people a chance to see yet more of the new features I've been working on for 1.3. This release focuses mainly on fixing a few bugs and making some existing features more usable. Note that this is just a miles...

Thanks for the info. That does ring a bell now. I was aware of the encryption string difference once upon a time. So I guess that means that the VIEW editor with AGDS is an option for DOS users.

Is there a DOS tool for creating VIEWs? I can't remember now. I think everything else might be covered though. There are DOS LOGIC compilers, a DOS picture editor, and ROL2SND can convert Adlib ROL music to AGI SOUND. You will need the Adlib Visual Composer to create ROL files though. which only wor...

Well it turns out I can only implement the complete fix for the Line and Pen tools. The Step tool poses a problem because of the way I have designed it. In the underlying AGI raw data, there are actually two picture actions that Step relates to. These are the x-corner and y-corner (also known as hor...

Regarding single point lines, I have now confirmed that the original Sierra interpreter supported this feature for all 4 of the line types, i.e. absolute line, relative line, x-corner and y-corner (the last two are covered by the Step tool). So what this means is that I need to apply my fix to Line,...

sact, thanks for posting that link to the Visual AGI Picture Editor. I'd never seen that version of the editor before and didn't know it even existed. I knew that Joakim was working on a tool, and I think I saw a few older versions, but nothing as advanced as this. Is this tool still available on th...

That last suggestion isn't far fetched. It is actually similar to one of the items on my list for the next Milestone release. I was planning to have an ego view for testing walking around the room. I guess that gives you part of what you'd need. Ego can't walk to everywhere on the screen though beca...

I have fixed the issue with the fills spilling out of that gas station picture. It was caused by those single point lines. I have changed my absolute line drawing routine so that it always at least draws a pixel at the start point, even if there isn't an end point. The gas station picture draws fine...

Like you pondered, regardless of it's nostalgic, iconic look, I reckon the Sierra AGI-style look might have come to end of it's road. Continuing using it, might make harder adding more useful features and making PICEDIT more user-friendly. And, PICEDIT isn't anymore just for AGI-pictures, there's S...

The defects shown sound like a problem with the Bresenham line drawing algorithm. If this is not exactly the same as the Sierra one, color flood fill will spill through empty spots, filling up incorrect portions of the screen. I've noticed that this gas station picture does indeed have lines with o...