SND (Sierra)
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| Developer: | Sierra Online | ||||
| Header: | Unknown | ||||
| Content: | Notational | ||||
| Instruments: | Internal | ||||
Target Output
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| Released: | 1984 | ||||
| First Game: | King's Quest (PCB) | ||||
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Sierra's SND format was created for the AGI engine that powered most of Sierra's early games including the very first AGI game, King's Quest (PCB). It was developed to store music for the PCjr's 3 voice chip. Data is stored in four streams, the first channel is the melody, the second and third channels are harmony, and the fourth channel is the noise channel. On computers with a PCjr 3 Voice or a Tandy 3 Voice chip, all four channels would be played, but on computers with only a PC Speaker, just the first channel would be played.
Sierra did not use the *.SND extension. Inside of its file archives (called volumes), the sound files are stored simply as SOUND.000, SOUND.001, SOUND.002, etc. The SND extension is used because the AGI Sound Edit program uses the extension to identify the files.
Currently, there are no players that can properly emulate the 3 voice aspect of the format or play the noise channel.
Players
- AGI Sound Edit - DOS
- Visual AGI Sound Editor - Windows
Editors
- AGI Sound Edit - DOS
- Visual AGI Sound Editor - Windows
Converters
SND to ?
- AGI 2 SCR - DOS - SCR
- Visual AGI Sound Editor - Windows - VAS, MIDI
? to SND
- IT 2 AGI - Perl Script - IT
- ROL to SND - DOS - ROL
- SCR 2 AGI - DOS - SCR
- Visual AGI Sound Editor - Windows - VAS
Games
| Released | Title | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| 1984-??-?? | King's Quest (PCB) | |
| 1985-??-?? | King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne (PCB) | |
| 1986-10-?? | Space Quest: Chapter I - The Sarien Encounter (DOS) | |
| 1986-??-?? | The Black Cauldron (PCB) | |
| 1986-??-?? | Donald Duck's Playground (PCB) | |
| 1986-??-?? | King's Quest III: To Heir Is Human (DOS) | |
| 1987-06-14 | The Black Cauldron (DOS) | |
| 1987-06-04 | Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards (DOS) | |
| 1987-??-?? | King's Quest: Quest For the Crown (DOS) | |
| 1987-??-?? | King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne (DOS) | |
| 1987-??-?? | Mixed-Up Mother Goose (DOS) | |
| 1987-??-?? | Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel (DOS) | |
| 1987-??-?? | Space Quest: Chapter II - Vohaul's Revenge (DOS) | |
| 1988-09-23 | Manhunter: New York (DOS) | |
| 1988-??-?? | Gold Rush! (DOS) | |
| 1989-??-?? | Manhunter 2: San Francisco (DOS) |
How to Obtain
SND files need to be extracted from Sierra's AGI resource files.
Links
- agidev.com/download/#cat5 - AGI Dev has a list of players and editors for the SND format.
