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Right about then was when all of the earlier episodes were being rewritten for production. Keep in mind, the first nine scripts or so were all written before we saw a complete episode, before we had a real understanding of what production during COVID was like and how much of a typical script was needed to be cut in order to fit into our timeslot.
Once Todd and the other upper level writers saw a couple finished episodes, they began adjusting the subsequent scripts for production. In the process, some plot points got affected. Most notably is the fact that we had kept the Cushings mostly out of the genre side of the show early on, reasoning they needed to stay grounded.
Tip: Delete and recreate bookmarks you may have already created or you'll be disappointed. If you use the one under System Definition and look at the URL, you'll notice that it goes to sys.scripts.modern.do. However, if you have an existing bookmark, it will still navigate to sys.scripts.do giving you the old UI.
Is there any way to remove the sodo-search.min.js script on a Ghost blog pro? I know you can disable all the membership/portal scripts, but I cannot find anywhere to disable this? I see a post regarding self-hosting here but that seems to require access to the environment config.
Another advantage of consistent script names is language agnosticism. This means the scripts themselves can be written in whichever language is appropriate for the maintainers or the project. It also means the conventions can work for projects of varying languages and frameworks. This ensures an individual contributor can do things like bootstrap or run tests without knowing how to do them for a wide range of project types.
Thanks for stick with me till the end and hopefully you enjoyed it! I hope you picked up a couple of cool tips andtricks along the way ?. As you saw from the post, Elixir along with its standard library and Hex ecosystem makes for agreat scripting language environment. For every day CLI scripts and tools that live along side your project repos,this is a viable path and it makes it easier for developers to stay within a single language. Feel free to leavecomments or feedback or even what you would like to see in the next blog post. Till next time!
I just want to kick back and tell the story of how this came to be. We'll see where Sierra's script language came from, what reverse engineers have done with it, and why I'm cheerfully undermining the blog with today's release. I've got a lot of meta-rules to break. You go outside and play with your scripts!
System Scripts: These are the supporting scripts that appear in every game. They form a common runtime library that the games are built on. You'll find generic classes for rooms and actors and icon bars, and utility functions for things like message boxes and math. Even the game loop lives here. As you get deeper into SCI mechanics, you care more about these scripts, although perhaps reluctantly.
The Interpreter: This is the program that runs the show; you know it as SIERRA.EXE or SCIV.EXE. The interpreter was written in C and a lot of assembly, and then rewritten in C++ and slightly less assembly. It loads drivers, decodes resources, and runs the first game script in a virtual machine. It's the "VM" in ScummVM. From there, it just follows orders until a script sets the quit flag or it famously crashes. It also contains over a hundred kernel functions that scripts call to do work. You care about the interpreter if you want to solve bonus mysteries or find timebombs. Or if you're crazy enough to replace the whole thing.
Today is all about the scripts. Let's see what one looks like! Remember that Sierra programmers wrote these in their proprietary language (also called Script) and compiled them with their in-house compiler to SCI bytecode. Those are the bytes that shipped with the games. Decompiling can never recover the original text. Symbols are lost. Control flow is ambiguous. Compilers have bugs. Optimizations ruin everything.
To a reverse engineer, this sounds like great news. It sounds like if you want to work with SCI scripts, you can do so universally. And that's true! Kinda? But also not really, because even though the bytecode is consistent, everything else is all over the map.
But I do want to convince you that Universal SCI is hard and the versions are a heavy tax. We're going to talk about the reverse engineers who took on the scripts, and I want you to know what they were getting into, and appreciate how far they got.
Okay so you have the world's first third party SCI compiler. Now what? Well, Sierra's game programmers didn't start from scratch, they had all those system scripts we discussed earlier. So I guess you need those scripts! But if all you have is bytecode...
Brian later said that he spent weeks on this "long and grueling task" and manually decompiled 50-60 scripts and over 130 classes from several games. If you've never decompiled assembly code by hand then it's hard to explain this sacrifice. And I won't try, because you shouldn't be punished for good life choices. But I will say that once it's done it's done, and is less work than writing a decompiler.
That same month, Brian announced he was working on supporting VGA games, and had even begun writing a script decompiler. Over the next two years he posted status updates. He even posted entire scripts he'd decompiled from a variety of games.
That leaves the bugs where the decompiler silently produces incorrect code. I'm familiar with these because my decompiler stumbled on the same scripts, just louder. Causes include: unexpected optimizations, nonsensical source scripts, and impossible instructions due to compiler bugs. But these instances are so rare that you can pretend they don't exist. So sure, trust but verify, but in practice don't worry about it.
SCI Viewer revealed that there was indeed a lot more to these cases but that the answers were all in the scripts. At the time, this meant reams of intolerably low level disassembly text. This wouldn't do for the high level answers I sought. "I'll come back later." In 2015 it was later, and lo, for Phil Fortier released from the heavens SCI Companion 3.0 with an honest to goodness script decompiler. It had been twenty years but not only could my investigation now proceed, it had to.
I quickly hit my limits with the scripts. Remember that first example? It's great by decompiler standards, but it's still not good enough for solving complex things like a Sleuth-O-Meter. It was taking too long to get my bearings in the game code and I didn't even know the language. I didn't know anything! But I did know the messages that appear in the games.
As I learned more, I wrote proper parsers, and the annotators flourished. I was closing a lot of ScummVM tickets thanks to my decompiled scripts. But as you'll recall, SCI Companion doesn't support everything. If I couldn't decompile, then I couldn't do much. The open tickets were starting to hint at which games and versions were outside of SCI Companion's purview. So I wrote some programs to bring them into the fold. The first one converted Macintosh scripts to DOS with a bunch of byte-swapping. The second program downgraded SCI3 scripts to SCI2, which is so insane that I named it Conversion Therapy. Now I could decompile and annotate everything, and without touching SCI Companion's code. The tickets continued to close and the writing queue grew.
Eventually I had a big problem: the annotated scripts had gotten too good to keep to myself. But they weren't good enough to release. Even if they were, they weren't the products of a program, but a process. Then I realized just how many imperfections I was working around, reverting, or tolerating. Hell's horses! I'd outgrown the SCI Companion decompiler.
You crave caveats. Well, there could be silent failures I don't know about. It seems like there must be some in all that text. Find 'em and I'll fix 'em. But the last bug affected only one function, and it was from a bug in Sierra's compiler, and that was a while ago. So I don't know what to think. As I mentioned, there are also a few versions I don't have. Maybe you do? It's mostly a handful of localized games. I don't expect any exciting scripts, but who knows? Help me find out!
SCI Companion will always be the best way to view scripts, so I've packaged mine to be compatible; you just need the game. You can try compiling the scripts, but you're on your own there. It might work! Just remember that the version detection in SCI Companion is incomplete, so it can misinterpret accurate symbols like kernel functions. Maybe you'll fix it?
On Christmas Day, Jason Scott discreetly posted the original scripts for nine Sierra games to the Internet Archive. They're also on github. I'm happy (and relieved) that we can discuss these publicly, but I have to tell you... as exciting as real source code is, annotated decompiled scripts are so much more useful. But you're hard to convince. So I wrote one more annotator...
What about objects that take a long time to create? Isolate that bit in its ownscript and write the precious object to file with saveRDS(my_precious, here("results", "my_precious.rds")). Now you can develop scripts to dodownstream work that reload the precious object via my_precious
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