Sierra Games and XP

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I have legitmate copies of the Quest for Glory Collection and the Roberta Williams Anthology, but am having trouble running them since I got windows XP. Can anyone tell me the best way to run these games? QG4 is particularly irksome, as is KQ6. I have dosbox but cannot figure out how to run the collections on it. I have also tried the win98 compatibility options in XP but I just can’t get them to work. Any help, whether detailed or general rules of thumb would be appreciated. Thanks.

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Dosbox works fine when you drag the exe or bat icon of the program you want to run (eg. larry.exe) on the dosbox.exe icon

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“…I have legitmate copies of the Quest for Glory Collection and the Roberta Williams Anthology, but am having trouble running them since I got windows XP. Can anyone tell me the best way to run these games? QG4 is particularly irksome, as is KQ6. I have dosbox but cannot figure out how to run the collections on it. I have also tried the win98 compatibility options in XP but I just can’t get them to work. Any help, whether detailed or general rules of thumb would be appreciated. Thanks….”
Exactly what’s the problem with both the games? Not much to go on at the moment.

– Alistair

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I can install the games using the sierra setup utility, and that puts the games on my start-programs bar. But when I run them they don’t do anything. Usually a black window will open and then minimize and close. I know about the compatibility settings, but even switching qg4 to win98 and 256 colors won’t allow the game to run.

When I go to the Sierra folder on my c drive I can’t find any executables to drag into dosbox. I only see icons, screensavers, hep files, and something called sierraw which does nothing. I don’t know how to get any more specific really, I was just wondering what steps other people had to go through to run the games.

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SIERRAW is the Window’s executable. To use DOSBox, you must run the DOS version of the games. Use INSTALL.EXE, not SETUP.EXE. It also sound like you have the extensions hidden for registered file types, so you will not see “.EXE”, only “INSTALL”, “SIERRA”, “SIERRAW”, etc.

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When I use the dos install in dosbox, I can select my language choice, but when the games list comes up, the keyboard does not respond to commands.

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Okay. Well, the QFG anthology, like some other Sierra collections, apparently has a buggy installer. To run the games, regardless of whether you’e running them natively/using DOSBOX/etc., you need to copy the game files to your appropriate folder. I think the QFG anthology has different games in diff. folders, right? if not, should be easy to find. Anyway.

Simply make them not read-only, after you’ve copied them, and proceed to run the install.exe file from there. From there you can now run DOSBOX, for example (though it’s only useful for QFG4).

– Alistair

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Thanks a lot. I finally got it to work. I’ve never been able to play it before.

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“… (by Joe ) Thanks a lot. I finally got it to work. I’ve never been able to play it before.
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Excellent! No problems, hearing someone say they’re playing the games is reward enough.

– Alistair

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Thank You so much! I had no idea how to make anything work in DOSBox until I read your message about dragging files to it.

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