Infocom version 6 and Blorb file compatibility

The Blorb files on the IF Archive for Infocom’s version 6 games have IFhd entries which associate them with the IBM releases of the games. But there are also Amiga, Mac, and Apple II releases.

In Bocfel I’ve hacked in special casing for version 6 games to get at least passable graphics support, but so far I’ve special-cased them only for the IBM releases that match the Blorb files. Does anybody know offhand if the graphics numbers line up for all releases of each game? That is, if you use the Blorb files with non-IBM games, do they work fine? Testing the first few screens of games is easy enough but an exhaustive test would be tedious so I’m hoping somebody knows if the pictures all line up. I’d like to at least support all officially-released Infocom version 6 games, if it’s feasible to do so.

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All internal picture numbers seem to match between the releases I’ve looked at, which is most of them.

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OK, good enough for me; I’ll move forward. Thanks!

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