agikit is a developer toolchain for Sierra's AGI (Adventure Game Interpreter) engine. AGI was used in the 1980s to develop adventure games including King's Quest I, II, and III, Space Quest I and II, and more. Later, it was reverse engineered by fans and used to develop many fan-made games. A lot more information about AGI is available at the AGI Programmers Wiki.
agikit aims to provide:
- A composable, extensible, cross-platform set of tools for working with AGI
- Compatibility with other tools, such as WinAGI and AGI Studio
- A platform to build other tooling, such as text editor extensions, language servers, etc.
- A modern compiler architecture that allows for language extensions and optimization
Install the extension from: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=nbudin.agikit-vscode
For some template code to start with, clone: https://github.com/nbudin/agikit-project-template
To install it:
npm install -g @agikit/cli
To extract an AGI game to source files:
agikit extract path/to/game output/path
To build AGI game volume files from extracted source files:
agikit build path/to/project
To auto-format a LOGIC script:
agikit formatLogic path/to/scriptfile.agilogic
agikit is early stage right now. As of this writing (version 0.8.0), it can decompile and compile King's Quest I, Space Quest II, Operation: RECON, Gold Rush, Manhunter: New York, and the agikit template project successfully. It possibly works with other games too, but I haven't tested it on everything yet.
Known limitations:
- SOUND editing is incomplete and only supports IBM PCjr SOUND resources
- Not yet compatible with WinAGI projects
- There are some missing features in the LOGIC language:
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