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I’m not sure if this has been posted or not but has anyone else seen that Al’s new game has been cancelled and his new company iBase is closed? Here is an article:
http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=13406
That is so sad. There goes the only game I was looking forward to playing in the future.
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Nope, I didn’t know that. That sucks. I’m glad to know he was as disappointed with the new Sierra collections as I was. Although I can sort of understand WHY they didn’t include LSL7 (they couldn’t emulate it through DosBox and therefore couldn’t guarantee its XP compatibility), there’s no excuse for them to not include the original AGI game. Personally, I don’t think there’s any excuse for them not to include every game in the series plus more. Why not include Freddy Pharkas? They could’ve easily padded the collections with lesser Sierra titles, kind of like what Sierra did with the previous King’s Quest Collection by including Mixed-Up Mother Goose Deluxe and the Laura Bow games. Instead these collections give you substantially less than what was available 7 years ago. I can think of a dozen ways the games could’ve been enhanced.
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LSL7 work perfectly in DOSBox. The collections were very poorly done with what seems to be arbitrary decisions by people that know very little about AGI or SCI games or even DOSBox. The games used in the collections comes from a hodgepodge of sources. KQ6 came from the 2nd collection while KQ7 came from the 2nd stand alone version, which came with no DOS interpreter, so no DOSBox. This makes the game uncompletable on modern machines (firecracker speed bug) In the end there was no reason for the collections to have been done so poorly.
I have created patches for all four collections that allow the games to be run with the latest version of DOSBox and fixes a number of issues that many were having with the games. The King’s Quest collection also upgrades KQ7 to version 2, which can be run in DOSBox. Links to these patches can be found on VU’s message board.
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Okay, I was thinking LSL7 was Windows only. I don’t know why the collections were delayed a year. It left me hoping they were actually doing something significant with them. I was hoping for midi sound for the AGI games or Apple IIgs samples, I doubt they even included MT-32 sound emulation. I could’ve seriously given the same results they gave with about a half hour of work.
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Has anyone heard from Al Lowe recently regarding the fate of Sam Suede? Except for archived news stories, pretty much all mention of Al Lowe has been removed from the IBase Entertainment website (http://www.ibaseentertainment.com/), where he used to figure so prominently in their advertising campaign. If work on Sam Suede does resume in the future, will Al Lowe be involved? I sure hope so!! If anyone has any info, please share.
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i was just browing gamestop.com and i noticed they still had it planned to release in may. but im sure they just don’t know it’s not coming out yet.
also noteworthy, some of the new Sierra Collections that were just released are supposedly there for download now. i think that is weird, but that’s what it says. i saw larry and space quest, but didn’t see kings quest oddly enough.
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Why is it always bad news from the old Sierra camp? I see many games, i.e. Syberia II, etc, that seem to be at least successful enough to be sold at Best Buy and warrant sequels, why can we not get a Space Quest game or King’s Quest game made? And yes I do know about the fan-made games, but you know what I mean!
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