                      AGI Studio  Version 1.34
                      =========================
                        Originally created by
                   Peter Kelly <peter@area51.org.au>
			further developed by
		    Eric Fullerton <eric@hsv.com>


About AGI Studio
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AGI Studio is a program which allows you to view, create and edit AGI games.

Its features include:

 Viewing of view and picture resources
 Editing of view resources and the WORDS.TOK and OBJECT files
 Compiling and decompiling of logic resources
 Adding, deleting, extracting and renumbering of resources
 Rebuilding of VOL files

Newest versions can be found at http://nailhead.org/agistudio
Peter Kelly's original version is available from http://www.ozemail.com.au/~ptrkelly/agi


About the template game
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The template game is an AGI version 2 game which you can use to build other
games from. It contains one room, and all the basic functionality you would
expect in an AGI game such as menus, key assignments, loading/saving and a
debug mode. Using this template as a starting point for other games will be
easier than modifying an existing game because it does not contain lots of
game-specific code.

A template game is included with AGI Studio so you can create new games
from it easily. It is stored in the template subdirectory, so make sure that
when you unzip AGI Studio you extract the directories aswell.


A note about editing games
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Due to the fact that AGI Studio is capable of modifying AGI games, I strongly
suggest that if you plan to make any modifications to a game then you should
make a backup copy of the game in case you change something you didn't mean to.


Whats new in this version
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(see history.txt)


About this release
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The newest version of the source code will always be available at:
http://nailhead.org/agistudio
This source code is released under the GNU General Public License
(for details, see the file COPYING.TXT)

Notes about the source code:
  - AGI Studio 1.31a and lower were compiled using Delphi 3 Standard. Version 1.32
    and higher were compiled using Delphi 5 Professional.
  - To compile the help file, I used a program called Microsoft Help Workshop.
    I am not sure where I got this from, but I remember that it was available
    for free, so you shouldn't have a lot of trouble getting hold of it.
    The help project file is called "AGI Studio.hpj", and the help file is
    compiled from main.rtf and logic.rtf. These files are stored in the help
    directory. You should be able to edit the RTF files in just about any
    word processor (I used MS Word 7). Instructions for the format of these
    come with Help Workshop.
  - Please don't ask me for help explaining parts of the source code - It's
    been a long time since I wrote this and I have forgotten many of the
    details. I could work it out by looking at the code and reading the
    documentation again, but if you're a programmer, I'm sure you're able to
    do that too.

If you develop a new version of AGI Studio and you would like me to provide
a link to it from my AGI page, just let me know.

More information
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For more information, see the help file included with the program. You can
also visit the AGI message boards at
http://www.mega-tokyo.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl
http://agisci.proboards2.com/index.cgi?pbuser=agisci


Peter Kelly
1 May 1999