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 [[Image:kq3-amiga-save_dialog-pressing_ok.png|frame|center|King's Quest III (Amiga): Save-dialog. OK-button is being pressed with the mouse.]]
+== 2007-07-06 (Friday) - Amiga cursors and palette ==
+ScummVM's AGI engine has a SCI-style black & white mouse cursor. I added
+an Amiga cursor for the Amiga rendering mode (Color values taken from some
+Amiga AGI game - I don't remember which - running on WinUAE 1.4.2a). Also took
+the Amiga-style busy mouse cursor (An hourglass) from Space Quest II
+running on WinUAE 1.4.2a and added its data to ScummVM. The busy mouse cursor
+is not used at the moment though. But its there, if someone likes to implement
+using it.
+Talked about Amiga palettes etc with Raziel_AOne on #scummvm. He told how he
+had modified King's Quest's - it was probably I or II - executable back in
+the day on Amiga in order to change King Graham's skin color from yellow to pink.
+The hack wasn't without its difficulties though, as some of trees etc turned pink
+too :-). Raziel just wanted to know if there was a way to modify ScummVM so
+King Graham's skin color in King's Quest I & II would be pink. Of course its
+possible but off the top of my head it may require some sprite specific
+modifications. Came to the conclusion that an engine-specific GUI-option
+for turning the skin color modification on would be good after talking about
+it with Raziel and Sev.
+It turned out that different Amiga AGI games use a different palette.
+As it dawned on me that Raziel had sometime hex-edited a Sierra AGI executable
+on Amiga in order to change the palette I thought that that's gotta be the
+place where the palette is defined. So I asked enthusiastically if he could show
+me the position in the executable. Later he sent me an email with the
+info and also some of the different palettes from different Amiga AGI games.
+Different Amiga AGI game colors, here I come :-).