AGISB

This is an experimental patch for Sierra's old AGI games, to make them play three voice music and sound effects via a SoundBlaster or AdLib card.

After the patch has been applied, the game will require a music card to run. Speaker support is removed to make room for SoundBlaster support. So don't try to run a patched game on a computer without proper hardware. There is no check that a card is in place. Absent sound hardware may cause the computer to hang, or other strange behavior may occur.

You need a Sierra game with an interpreter version 2.911 or above. NOTHING OLDER WILL WORK! To check the version number of your Sierra interpreters, use Jeremy W. Hayes program AGIVER available from

http://www.ozemail.com.au/~ptrkelly/agi/utils.html

(If your game does not qualify as version 2.911 or above, please read on.)

To apply the patch, simply run the program AGISB.EXE from your game directory. By default, the file AGI will be patched, and no backup is made. IT IS YOUR OWN RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE A BACKUP COPY OF THE FILE AGI BEFORE PROCEEDING! I will not accept any responsibility for any damage caused by using this program, even if it erases your hard disk. (Not very likely, though!)

If you wish to use other file names than the default, give them as arguments on the command line. Like this:

AGISB [infile] [outfile]