Talk:Adventure Game Interpreter

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Evidence of Arthur Abraham/IBM contribution[edit]

I have never been able to find primary documents attesting to Arthur Abraham's contribution, *.GAL or the notion that IBM assisted with the final AGI development system. Can anyone verify this with actual evidence? 143.215.122.102 (talk) 21:27, 25 March 2016 (UTC)[]

Sorry, above is by me, wasn't signed in. I can find no documents supporting claim that Arthur Abraham invented AGI or that IBM assisted with final dev system. Deleted both claims, and changed name in box to "unknown." Would be very happy to discuss changes with anyone who can supply evidence re: origins of dev system Sierra OffLine (talk) 00:41, 26 March 2016 (UTC)[]

Unofficial Coco3 ports[edit]

Would it be worth mentioning that games such as Manhunter I and II, Space Quest II, The Black Cauldron and Gold Rush were ported to the Coco3 in the late 1980s and early 1990s by enthusiasts? Disk images (DSK files) with these ports are still easily found on the Web as of 2015. 192.226.181.116 (talk) 04:19, 29 June 2015 (UTC)[]

Yes, here's how to handle this: In the table of game releases, change the pertinent {{no}} values to:

{{unofficial|Year-of-release{{break}}{{small|(unofficial)}}}}<ref>Citation</ref>

Where Citation is a Web citation (Template:Cite web) and Year-of-release is the year that a non-beta port was unofficially published. (Use the year of beta release if there was no final version.) When your done, the cell should look something like this:
1985
(unofficial)1
Avoid using a download page as your source. Instead, you can use an informational site, a BBS archive, or an article (from the Web or print). For citation templates, see WP:CITEHOW. Thanks for asking a great question! —Ringbang (talk) 23:10, 27 March 2016 (UTC)[]

Untitled[edit]

The link to Arthur Abraham is the wrong man. Recommend removing the hyperlink or creating a stub.

The mention of Donald Duck's Playground is misleading. The Commodore 64 and Apple II versions don't use AGI, but an in-built engine, because the computers are too primitive to support AGI. The IBM PCjr, Amiga, and Atari ST versions do use AGI. How can this be included in the infobox? JIP | Talk 21:02, 29 April 2009 (UTC)[]

Arthur Abraham[edit]

A recent Gamasutra article[1] credits Abraham as being the primary author of AGI while discussing the fact that Sierra expunged his name from all credits when he was fired.

The article is written by a game historian and he mentions it almost in passing as an anecdote about researching AGI. Does anybody know if he published the research he refers to? It'd be an important source for the article. ApLundell (talk) 21:07, 6 November 2018 (UTC)[]

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