Sometime earlier in 2002, I contacted Chris Jones the author of Adventure Game Studio about letting me port AGS to Linux. At the time, I really didn't know everything I needed to do this, but I figured I'd learn. After some vanity modifications to the source and some things Chris had to do, I let my motivation get stale to work on it. Also, AGS was going through a major revision at the time (v2.5x).

Mid-December of 2002, I caught back up with Chris and asked if he would still let me do the port. He was still interested and so with renewed vigor (and knowing a lot more of what I needed to), I pursued porting it. I started over completely with the latest version of the code that Chris was working with at that time. 3 days later I had King's Quest 2 VGA running, sound, music and all. Chris and I then discussed a setup program for the Linux Version, and I started to write it.

Shortly after, the Holidays and my Real Life™ job delayed further progress. About 3 weeks ago, I then started working on the setup program again, and after much research into windowing toolkits, etc. had a prototype. Finally, on Saturday, February 22nd, 2003 I managed to finish the setup program and figured out how to properly statically link the AGS runtime engine to avoid the C++ ABI issues that have been haunting me in regards to the Linux binary.