Torbjörn Andersson

I don't know. Agent Slenderball looks a bit off-model to me...

"The soundtrack is still in progress" That's great news! I can't really justify buying the game (maybe if there had been a Linux version, but that's probably never going to happen), but I've been waiting for a chance to buy the soundtrack for the past... 14 years? It's been that long? If I really want to play the games, I think I'll stick with the original versions. They can be run in Linux by using Wine... with the occasional nightmare-inducing glitch.

I still buy CDs, but customs have gotten really stingy about adding fees every time (it used to be just if you were unlucky) so it's been a while since I ordered anything from the US. I cannot understand the fascination with vinyl, though. My memory of that is that all my favorite LPs would eventually get scratched. One got warped when I left it on the turntable on sunny day. (One old 78 rpm record shattered when I accidentally dropped it, though I guess that was shellac, not vinyl.)

Thanks! I didn't realize that it was used for the main menu, though that makes its omission all the more remarkable of course. Here's to hoping that it can be added some day, in spite of the problems you mentioned with some other services.

The game most likely won't be released for anything I have, but if the soundtrack is finally released (14 years after the "Season 3 Soundtrack Waiting Thread" started on the Telltale Community forum), that will definitely be worth buying. At that point, I guess the only thing I will still be missing is that nice music at the beginning of "Bright Side of the Moon", where Sam somehow figures the whole thing out. Oh well. 😁

Once upon a time, I would have used Wine to unpack those installers in Linux. But these days, the "innoextract" command line tool seems to be doing a good job too. Even if that'll get you a bunch of files that I assume are only used during the installation, as well as the installed files themselves. I think the official web page for it is https://constexpr.org/innoextract/ Since the file format is apparently well understood, I guess there's no technical reason that DREAMM couldn't install the games directly from those installer files. But I haven't heard anyone say it does, and I've never tried it.

I tried that savegame with the Italian version of the game I got from GOG, using 3.0b12 under Linux. I get sound, the texture isn't missing, and it hasn't crashed so far, knock on wood. Unfortunately the only Italian I know is a few musical terms, so I can't really test it any further. Figuring out which menu item to use to even load the savegame was stretching the limits of that knowledge! 😁

These days there's also DREAMM, Aaron Giles's "bespoke emulator for LucasArts games". Unlike ScummVM, it emulates enough of DOS, Windows and FM Towns to run the original EXE files which in theory means it should run EMI without bugs. Though I've had problems with some lines of dialog being skipped. Your mileage may vary.

Someone on Facebook said he had complained to LRG about the Full Throttle box, only to be told that it was meant to be that way. Which I guess means that LucasArts got it wrong through several re-releases, not to mention within the game itself, but now LRG finally got it right...? 🤷‍♂️

So both their Full Throttle and their Grim Fandango boxes came out looking much darker than the original ones? That's weird. Consistently weird, but still weird.

That's ok, someone went into detail elsewhere: https://www.reddit.com/r/limitedrun/comments/1at3yoa/comment/kuj4o1g/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button So apparently the Mac version of Loom wasn't included? Pity. I mean, it's not like it's some kind of holy grail or anything, but I and others have spent quite a bit of work lately getting it to run better in ScummVM.

Ah, that makes more sense. I thought you just meant the EGA version because that's the only additional thing I heard they had definitely promised would be included.

Even uncompressed, my copy of English EGA Loom is 2.2 MB. There wasn't even that much space to spare?

It didn't seem important to mention it, because I wasn't asking about the version. 😜 I hadn't heard of any effort to get additional versions included (I couldn't find any questions about it on LRG's Facebook announcements, and Twitter is walled off for me these days), so I just assumed it would be disappointing from a game preservation/playing point of view. That's why I asked if they had also managed to break it in some way. Either way, it doesn't bode well for their Maniac Mansion release. I was told they were informed about the GOG version being broken/cracked, but...

I can't tell from just the list of files, is there something wrong with Zak McKracken?