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It happened twice at Sierra, around the same time in fact. I have found part of the AGI interpreter source code on a King's Quest III disk (version 2.14, 720KB version, disk 1). There is nowhere near as much, but lucky for us, it happens to include a few complete files that were not on the SQ2 disk. So that increases the total amount of source a bit.

I have checked other Sierra disks, and so far the SQ2 and KQ3 occurrences are the only ones I know of.

Thanks for the link. I hadn't previously visited that site. Very interesting.

From a quick check, I can't see this particular Space Quest II disk's AGI interpreter uncompiled code mentioned in there yet. Do you agree?

I have noticed that the same thing happened with a King's Quest III disk, in fact it looks like it may have happened around the same time as the Space Quest II occurrence.

Yeah, that is a fair point. I was a little too eager and dramatic with my wording. I have now removed the bit about it potentially being a sackable offence, as I feel you are probably right regarding that. Someone else in the comments made a similar point.

Your point about the legal protection against competitors is a good one too. I've tried to reword the bit that suggested it might be drastic. Let me know if you think it reads better now. Thanks.

The 10th May 2024 marks the 40th anniversary of King’s Quest, the game that started a whole new genre: the animated graphic adventure. To celebrate the event, and as a tribute to the game, I am today releasing AGILE, a way to play Sierra On-Line’s AGI adventure games directly in the web browser!