VEW2VEW

An AGI to SCI view resource converter by John Nickerson (Mokalus of Borg), mokalus@yahoo.com.au
(c) John Nickerson, March 2002

License Agreement

You are hereby granted the right to do whatever you like with this software and it's source code, including redistribution and alteration, on the following conditions:
  1. The author's name and contact details (John Nickerson, mokalus@yahoo.com.au) are not removed or hidden.
  2. The author accepts no responsibility for any damage that may be caused to your hardware, other software, or wetware, through use of the program.
  3. No warranty is given, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, usability or fitness for a particular purpose, except where prohibited by law, and on the planet Neptune ('coz we all know what they're like about warranties).

Executive summary of license agreement

Go nuts, but don't bother me.

Current version

1.1.3

Using the program

(The file "vew2vew.exe" has been compiled from "vew2vew.py" with "py2exe", available from Starship Python, and requires "python21.dll" to run.)
(The file "vew2vew.py" requires the Python interpreter, which can be downloaded for free at www.python.org for a variety of platforms.)

The program can be run with either command-line arguments, or user input. The command-line syntax is as follows:

vew2vew agifile scifile

where 'agifile' is the name of the extracted AGI view resource,
and 'scifile' is the name of the SCI output file to write.
If no arguments are given on the command line, then the program will prompt for file names during execution. If you have problems getting the program to open files, try specifying the path in full.
There is no command for online help.
The program works with AGIv2 views, and will not work with encrypted views.

Further information/programs

To extract AGI views: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~ptrkelly/agi/agistudio.html
The AGI view format: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~ptrkelly/agi/specs/view/6-1.html
To show SCI views: http://www.bripro.com/scistudio/download.html
The SCI view format: http://freesci.linuxgames.com/scihtml/x1681.html
The Python interpreter and language: http://www.python.org
 

Known issues

  1. AGI views can include a text description to be used in the game when the illustrated object is LOOKed at. The SCI view format does not include descriptions, and so any description found is dropped during translation.
  2. The standalone executable sometimes misses a cel.
    Workaround: use the original Python script instead for views where this problem occurs.

Bug reporting

To report a bug, please email me at mokalus@yahoo.com.au, with the following format:

Name:
Date:
Program version:
Command line used:
Description of error:
Error message (if any):