I'll be testing "The Legend of Kyrandia", English DOS talkie version, on Win32.

I figured I'll make a scheduled task during the pre-0.9.0 test phase to get the latest SVN build each day and extract it to my testing directory by use of a batch file. I used to be able to extract the daily builds with 7-Zip, thereby making it very batch-friendly, but that doesn't seem to work anym...

There's a patch for the floppy version available on LucasArts' support site that will add Roland MT-32 music to the game, I really recommend you to apply it if you have a Soundblaster AWE32 with some RAM, or a real MT-32. It'll make you forget that the visuals are only 16 colors.

Refresh my memory: the CD version of Loom was cut short compared to the floppy version, right? Only ever played the EGA version (with glorious MT-32 music) but I think I've heard something about some puzzles (and a lot of dialogue) being cut from the CD version due to lack of space.

Perhaps it is a mastering error then.. but it's on all my three CDs at the exact same spot so I won't buy any more of them (they can be expensive too in mint condition).. they work fine and I can copy all the files on the CD to the harddrive and also make an MP3 of the audio track without getting a...

Sounds like a mastering error to me. At the time Loom CD was made, purposely made errors as a copy protection mechanism was probably totally unknown (and is still frowned upon by Philips as it violates the CD-ROM specs). But a mastering error could pass undetected if it didn't affect the actual use ...

Ah, right. I only made a cursory glance over the mobygames stats. I'll try contacting Mass Media tomorrow and see if there's any interest :) I think Core might still hold the copyrights, or possibly Eidos, so there's probably nothing Mass Media as a company can do about it, but maybe if one of the ...

A quick look through MobyGames seems to suggest that one or both of the original programmers are now working at Mass Media ( website ). Where did you see that? I tried looking for Ian Sabine & Rob Toone, but didn't find anything? It takes some cross-referencing and some guesswork... Clicking on...

A quick look through MobyGames seems to suggest that one or both of the original programmers are now working at Mass Media (website).

just curious, was the screen wider on those computers than on the then-PC's 4:3? Or should those screens be stretched to a 4:3 ratio? While I'm not any kind of authority on video modes, I believe that it should be stretched to a 4:3 ratio. Although 640x256 seems to be a very strange mode since a do...

Yes, I think this was a special HAM screenmode (from memory) and I believe it could display 262,144 colours but again I could be wrong. Older Amigas could display 4096 colours using a HAM screenmode. The HAM screenmodes weren't very useful at all, there were limitations to the display mode. HAM sto...

But yeah everything looked smooth because of the TV-style monitors. Plus did the resolution have anything to do with it? The Amiga 1200 ran at 640x480, didn't most PCs run at 320x240 in the old days when MI2 was released? To be completely correct here, a typical Amiga 1200 with a TV set would run W...

Here's a comparison of MI2 for Amiga (left) and PC (right) made by a friend of mine: <snip> It might be only my opinion, but I think the PC's graphics are slightly better. I assume your friend made these screenshots using an emulator? While the Amiga generally has less colors available than the PC,...

Though in any practical sense, MT-32 emulation is good enough for the LucasArts games since they don't use custom sound banks for the MT-32 sounds What do you mean by "custom sound banks"? The MT-32 doesn't support bank switch. Loom and Monkey1 only use the default instruments, but the iM...

As said before, with available techniques it will require insane amounts of work and that's because trackers' arrangement unit is a pattern, not a track (in the sense of a voice channel) nor an instrument voice. All the possible mixes of tunes and themes would have to be written in the patterns man...