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# AGI game data
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Everything in this folder except this file is ignored by git. No game's
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files are, or should ever be, committed to the repository.
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Place each game in its own subdirectory:
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```
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games/
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agidemo/ # Sierra's promotional AGIDEMO (freely redistributable)
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kq3/ # Local copy extracted from your licensed King's Quest 3
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...
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```
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`scripts/test-agi.sh` runs the host tests against every subdirectory that
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holds a `LOGDIR` (v2) or a `<prefix>DIR` (v3), and `make
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iigs-game-disk-agi` puts `kq3` (or `AGI_GAME=NAME`) on the bootable IIgs
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volume. Everywhere else the
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interpreter reads the game from its `DATA` folder; `joey-run --data
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games/kq3` copies a game there for one run.
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Releases for other machines go one level down, in `machines/` (`kq1amiga`,
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`kq1gs`, `kq1st`, `kq1mac`, and so on), where the host tests do not look
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yet (PLAN.md, Phase 5).
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`scripts/oracle.sh` plays a game's sessions on the Sierra interpreter in its
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folder. A release that came without one can be given another release's of
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the same version; PLAN.md's games table says which. A v3 interpreter carries
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its game's file prefix, so it opens only that game's files.
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## Required files per game
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For an AGI v2 game directory the loader needs:
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- `LOGDIR` - logic script index
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- `PICDIR` - picture (room background) index
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- `VIEWDIR` - view (sprite/animation) index
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- `SNDDIR` - sound index
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- `VOL.0` - resource volume 0 (always present)
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- `VOL.1`..`VOL.N` - additional resource volumes (game-dependent)
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- `OBJECT` - inventory table
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- `WORDS.TOK` - parser dictionary
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An AGI v3 game instead has one `<prefix>DIR` holding the four indexes and
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`<prefix>VOL.0`..`<prefix>VOL.N` (`GRDIR` and `GRVOL.*` for Gold Rush);
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the loader knows the prefixes of Sierra's v3 games (`KQ4`, `GR`, `MH`,
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`MH2`, `BC`, `DM`). `OBJECT` and `WORDS.TOK` are the same.
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The loader reads Sierra's interpreter version from `AGIDATA.OVL` when the
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folder has it, to behave as that version did (see `agiQuirk`); without
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it the interpreter behaves as 2.435, the version it was measured on (or,
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for a v3 game, 3.002.149).
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File names are uppercase by AGI convention; the loader looks them up
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literally so the directory should match.
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## Sourcing AGI data
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This repository never ships copyrighted Sierra game data. Two legitimate
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sources for development and testing:
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1. Sierra's freely-distributed `AGIDEMO` promotional disk -
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redistributable since the late 1980s.
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2. Fan-made AGI titles authored with AGI Studio - many are released
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under explicit redistribution licenses.
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To test against a commercial Sierra game you legally own, extract
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the data files from your own copy and drop them in a new sibling
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directory here. Do not commit them.
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