Hello, everyone!
Being a huge fan of the Legend Entertainment interactive fiction titles (especially the Gateway series), I decided to dig into the game files in order to figure out what was going on inside. I thought maybe I could extract some resources, or even create a port for a modern interpreter.
However, I wasn’t able to find any information on the inner structure of the game files.
I would appreciate any help you could provide on the matter.
There’s a vocabulary lister for “Spellcasting 101” and “TimeQuest” here:
http://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXutilities.html
Generally, producing an interpreter is done by disassembling versions of the games to figure out how it all works - not a trivial undertaking.
There is a thread that sheds some light on Legend Entertainment game innards over at the ScummVM forum ( forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=1620 ), but yeah, it doesn’t sound too promising.