SCI: Unknown "hoyle" game or demo

[eriktorbjorn]

I recently acquired a copy of "Sierra's School House: Math". Unfortunately I don't have the box or the manual, but the discs turned out to be something of a treasure trove, containing what appears to be at least two complete games that I didn't have before. (EcoQuest 2 and Pepper's Adventures in Time.)

There are also "Science" and "English" versions that I don't have. I'm guessing they have the same set of extra games, because I was tipped off that "Science" had EcoQuest and Pepper, and only the main game differs? (They're all on the first CD.)

One of its remaining mysteries is the "hoyle" directory. ScummVM doesn't recognize it, but suggests it may be a "hoyle5" game. I have not been able to get it to run in Wine, so I can't say for sure. The file sizes suggest that it might be a demo, perhaps?

Matched game IDs for the sci engine: hoyle5-fallback

  {"resmap.000", 0, "ed75b87fd5b69097e3a09dd39de7e2fe", 3697},
  {"ressci.000", 0, "cbfe69aa4b9e23ddbf640301709a65eb", 2478642},

Adding it anyway, it does start and runs long enough to display a "hand" cursor. But then it immediately crashes:

ERROR: [hoyle5-fallback 900 sierra::doit @ 01bc]: [VM] kPalCycle: subfunction ID 112 requested, but not available!

This is a complete list of the files:

   3697 Jul 11  1995 resmap.000
   3697 Jul 11  1995 resmdt.000
2478642 Jul 11  1995 ressci.000
 142934 May 18  1995 scidll.dll
 167091 Mar 27  1995 sciw.map
   8475 Aug 12  1994 sierra.err
 803092 Jun 23  1995 sierraw.exe
 167292 Jun 23  1995 sierraw.map

The .map files are output from WATCOM Linker Version 9.5, so presumably not part of the game. The sierraw.exe seems large enough that it might contain debug information.

MD5 checksums for the files:

ed75b87fd5b69097e3a09dd39de7e2fe  resmap.000
52a7e7dff0671acb4c151fa64ab78136  resmdt.000
48c53529d2fd41dcc69433737be7a457  ressci.000
ba6735f0ccafbac86e70ece0921ee34b  scidll.dll
040f6446e72a22bd68521edd625451a6  sciw.map
4d9122131775e6349c3c8b6574ec612c  sierra.err
d709c2f8c49a1406b599bb59cf28c1c5  sierraw.exe
9830f9a47fc321f3e63141d9d70afcca  sierraw.map