QT AGI Studio, release 1.2.1

About

AGI (Adventure Game Interpreter) is the adventure game engine used by Sierra On-Line(tm) to create some of their early games. QT AGI Studio (formerly known as Linux AGI Studio) is a program which allows you to view, create and edit AGI games. Basically, it is an enhanced port of the Windows AGI Studio developed by Peter Kelly.

The program contains very little platform specific code so brave ones are encouraged to try it on other operating systems that the QT library support

Availability

QT AGI Studio is available at http://agistudio.sourceforge.net/ The project is licensed under the GPL, GNU General Public License. See COPYING for details.

System requirements

Linux: GNU make, g++, X Window System, QT library

The program is now being developed with QT version 3.1

NAGI or Sarien AGI interpreter is recommended to run games. Sarien is available at http://sarien.sourceforge.net/ and NAGI at http://www.agidev.com/nagi.html Sarien is more focused on portability and NAGI on compatibility with Sierra's original AGI interpreter. Both are free.

WINDOWS NOTE: Since there is currently no GPL compatible version of native QT 3 library for Windows (a version which requires Cygwin XFree86 port exists), there is no way to legally compile the program as a native Windows application (the Cygwin XF86 currently traps all X applications inside a giant "desktop window"). If we can reach all the people who have contributed to the project, we will later make a new release with a license that explicitly permits linking with non-free versions of QT.

Building

Run "make" in the src subdirectory. If the supplied Makefile doesn't work, you can either fix it or use tmake to generate a makefile for your platform:

tmake agistudio.pro -o Makefile

If you don't have tmake, you can download it at http://www.trolltech.com

Make assumes that QT is installed and working (in particular, the QTDIR environment variable is properly set)

Installation and setup

The binary is called agistudio and will be built in the src subdirectory; you can copy it to any path convenient to use (e.g. /usr/local/bin). In order to use the help and an example game template, copy them to any convenient place and specify the appropriate paths in the "Settings" menu when you'll run agistudio.

AGI studio has its own help viewer, but you can also view the help with any HTML browser.

If agistudio complains that it can't load qt shared library, then set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to the path which contains libqt.so.*.

Using

Please read the online help. Note that if you want to use existing games' files, all the filenames must be in lower case.

Credits

Helen Zommer <helen@cc.huji.ac.il> - primary development
Jarno Elonen <elonen@iki.fi> - current maintainer
Nat Budin <natb@brandeis.edu> - Win32 port
Claudio Matsuoka <claudio@helllabs.org> - sound support
Peter Kelly <pmk@post.com> - the original Windows version
Lance Ewing <lance.e@ihug.co.nz> - the original (DOS) Picedit

Feedback

Please visit project website at http://agistudio.sourceforge.net/ to submit bug reports, comments, suggestions, etc.

Hope you'll have as much fun using it as we've had developing it :-)