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(re: re: HELP: King’s Quest Collection on Windows XP)
> The really weird was it was in a white box under the cover, just like the other 3 copies I own. I’ve never seen LB1 in a beige box like my original Silpheed or Leisure Suit Larry copies are.
I’ve got a version of LB1 that came in the beige box – it was when it was first released (when QG1 was still Hero’s Quest), and also has both types of low-density disks.
(re: HELP: King’s Quest Collection on Windows XP) The only sealed copies are Slash copies.
Since floppies start de-magnetizing after 2.5 years, I’d never, ever buy anything sealed that’s on any form of magnetic data (no, I never bought VHS movies, I bought LD and VCD).
Having worked with PCs for over 24 years, and I know about data loss.
The copy of LB1 that caught my eye was a dual floppy version, and at the store, I was allowed to install and boot it up on one of there PCs for sale. Both versions are okay, but it was strange that both were on extremely low density disks. Both 360 KB, one version was 5.25 floppy, the onther was 3.5 floppy. That answered me as to why the box was so heavy. All the goodies were in there, times two. It was only 5 bucks, but since I own 3 copies of LB1 already, I passed and hoped somebody like you could find it. The really weird was it was in a white box under the cover, just like the other 3 copies I own. I’ve never seen LB1 in a beige box like my original Silpheed or Leisure Suit Larry copies are.
If I come across any copies again, I’ll send notice to this website, and location of store in LV. I’m only going to do this to pre-VU Sierra products.
(re: Preserving Ultima: Escape from Mt. Drash) I’ve been told there’s an arcade museum like what you’re describing near where I live in San Francisco. I haven’t been there (the time I tried they were closed for renovations). I think it sounds like fun!
But I’m not sure I could stand only having a few minutes to play the games… 🙂
emily(re: HELP: King’s Quest Collection on Windows XP) And why are so many copies of Laura Bow 1 in Las Vegas thrift stores?
I don’t suppose you’ve seen any sealed copies out there?(re: Interaction Magazine Archive UPDATE!)
Having checked out all three documents, I’d have to say that, IMHO, the scans of the covers are acceptable at all resolutions/quality settings. Didn’t even see a difference until I reached page 6.
For the pages that have text, to my eyes, there’s also not a great difference with each of the resolutions. The “low quality” settings make the text too blurry, though.
Bear in mind that I talk about reading off a computer screen. For hardcopy, things may well be different.
The higher the scanning resolution, the less a lower quality setting will affect perceived output quality.
(re: Preserving Ultima: Escape from Mt. Drash) Ken,
B&M is an acronym for Brick and Mortar. Referring to a physical museum in a building, rather than say, a virtual online museum. Hope that helps.
-Brad(re: HELP: King’s Quest Collection on Windows XP)
Viva la Sierra! And why are so many copies of Laura Bow 1 in Las Vegas thrift stores?
(re: re: Interaction Magazine Archive UPDATE!) Adam,
I was sorry to re-read about the pipes ruining all your stuff. When I was going through old messages to alert everyone about the update on the project I was thinking to myself how I wish those pipes hadn’t gone bad. So what happened to that box of stuff? Did it get tossed I guess – you could have probably salvaged the T-shirts. Anyway I guess there is no use crying over spilled milk.
We will be entering the design process soon after the production on the scans has started (should be the first of next week for the scanning) and be working on CD cover, CD label, and interface. It looks like it will most likely be a 2-CD set in the end. I have some ideas that I am going to be persuing, but am open to other ideas and suggestions. All the designs will be posted here before anything is made final.
Thanks for your comments!
-Brad(re: Interaction Magazine Archive UPDATE!)
Dang it! I wish I would have been more resposible about my collection of mags and other Sierra stuff. When I first moved into my house I had everything in carboard boxes and sitting in basement directly under my powder room. We had a pipe burst within the first 6 mos (Yes I was still unpacking stuff) and all my magazines from way back to the Sierra Newsletter days were ruined. The insurance agent couldn’t believe that I wanted to claim each magazine as a collectors item. He only gave me cover price for each one 🙁 Anyhow, I’m sure I had at least a few of the missing mags along with other stuff like letters from the staff, t-shirts, posters and other promotional stuff.
Needless to say I’m excited about this project and personally any of the resolutions would do fine for me. I just want to be able to read them. Not print them or anything else. So the smaller size the better. This way I can read them on my laptop.
Have you been working on the CD jewel case art? I was just thinking how kewl it would be to print each CD with a different Sierra emblem as they had quite a few over the years.
Good luck and I’m anxious to see the results. Please feel free to ask for help if needed.
Adam Taylor
(re: Interaction Magazine Archive UPDATE!) Great to see that this is still moving forward!
Medium 150dpi or *possibly* even Medium 72dpi
Good work!(re: HELP: King’s Quest Collection on Windows XP)
Thanks Collector – everything is running now. Long live Sierra!
(re: HELP: King’s Quest Collection on Windows XP)
strangely enough, i’ve been playing kq6 thru win xp for a good many years now. however, i do acknowledge everybody’s pc systems and specs are different and do different things with the same product
(re: HELP: King’s Quest Collection on Windows XP)
The Windows version of KQ6 is superior to the DOS version with the higher resolution images. The DOS version is easy to run on an NT system with VDMS. The Windows version will not even launch without this method.
(re: re: King’s Quest 5 problem)
Thanks for bringing it up! If a person has at least 1.5 GB HD (we’re talking big in ’94, small in ’94, my RAM is more than this on my new iMac) Then copy the 121 MBs of data onto the HD!
Glad you brought that up! I used to do it when I had an old CD-ROM on my Tandy and the only way I could get music and speech (why Tandy put digitizers on their internal speakers baffles me) was to copy the entire game onto the HD, which ate lots of space, but was worth it 😀 Anything for Sierra!
(re: King’s Quest 5 problem)
Just got it working, with sound! 🙂 Basically, I had it running in both DOS & Windows, but couldn’t get the sound working (I’m running the CD version using WinXP). Here’s how I got the sound to work (using the DOS version):
1. I’ve got the file sierra.exe running in Windows 95 compatability with 256 colors & 640×480 screen.
2. I’ve installed it to use Soundblaster for both music & audio.
3. This is the important bit! I’ve copied the audio files from the CD (easiest way to do this is just copy the contents of KQ5 on the CD into the KQ5 folder on your hard drive). I then opened the resource.cfg file in Notepad, and where it reads audio= d: (or whatever letter your cd drive is) I changed it to read audio= .\ (thanks to collector for this!).
It now works perfectly (well, so far)!
(oh yeah, I also ran the gosierra patch).
(re: King’s Quest 5 problem)
I’ve been having the same problem… finally figured it out earlier today. Basically it gets stuck at the Sierra screen because of a sound configuration problem (whether it came up with the hardware initialization error or not). I found that if I installed the game and chose the IBM PS1 option for Audio, then the game would play…. (albeit with no sound!!!). I’m still stuck trying to get the speech to work so I can play it properly.
(Firefox (was re: re: re: Posting System / Compatibility))
I’ve checked out Firefox, but I have to say I like Avant Browser ( http://www.avantbrowser.com ) better. It has what’s great about IE with none of the crap. Don’t want to waste your time with details, but it works great.
(re: HELP: King’s Quest Collection on Windows XP)
If none of these Windows methods work, just go to the command prompt in accessories and play the game through DOS, or make a partition with DOS just to play. Though I don’t get why your KQ6 is goofy like this. I’ve ran mine on XP for years now without any problems. Other than switching video types, but nothing else seemed to bother it.
(re: re: re: Sierra honored in GSN Videogame documentary)
okay then. i guess i’ll hafta see if i have that channel or not, but it’s cable, and cable seems to repeat almost every show all of the time
(re: Sierra honored in GSN Videogame documentary)
AGIGames.com has more info on this, including a video file of it for download! check it out:
http://www.agigames.com/index.php?action=display_topic&topic=341&page=1#post_2448
http://www.agigames.com/index.php?action=display_topic&topic=341&page=1#post_2448
(re: HELP: King’s Quest Collection on Windows XP)
The version of VDMS that I gave you the link to has the Launchpad included. A batch file is just a text file of commands that you want to run, that has a “.bat” extension instead of a “.txt” extension. If you have: C:\SIERRA\KQC\KQ6\SCIV.EXE typed in the bat file and SCIV.EXE is in the C:SIERRA\KQC\KQ6 folder, when you double click on the bat file, it will launch SCIV.EXE. VDMS will not work with DOS executables, but it will work with “.bat” files, which is why we need the bat file. You can also set bat files to run with compatability mode, too. Don’t click the “Find Target” button. If you look at that page of the shortcut properties, you will see a column on the left that starts out with Target type: Target location: Target: what is to the right of Target: is the text that you should copy into Notepad. It should say something like C:\SIERRA\KQC\KQ6\SCIV.EXE C:SIERRA\KQC\KQ6\SIERRA.INI Yours may be different, depending on where you installed the game. After you have copyed this into notepad, save your new file in the games folder, but be sure to save it with the “.bat” extension, such as “KQ6.bat” or even “King’s Quest VI.bat” It is this file that you want to run with VDMS. If you still have trouble, just ask for more help here.
(re: HELP: King’s Quest Collection on Windows XP)
Also, is VDMS Launchpad separate from VDMSOUND? The link you provided gave me VDMSOUND, which is now installed on my PC. Thanks!
(re: HELP: King’s Quest Collection on Windows XP)
Thanks for your help, Collector! The only games I haven’t been able to get running are KQ6 and LB2. The one thing in your instructions that I can’t seem to get right is how to make a batch file. Can you further explain that? I was able to work around that problem with KQ5 and just switch my system settings, however I don’t think I can get KQ6 running without a batch file? I installed KQ6 through the KQC SETUP CD and am working with the KQ6 files now on my hard drive from there. Regarding your above instructions I had problems with the following: (1) I found no HDLOGO.AVI file, however I didn’t care much since you said to delete it anyway. (2) Like I said I’m having problems making a batch file. When I right click the shortcut and select properties, you want me to copy what is in the target box for the shortcut into Notepad, right? When I click on the “Find Target” box I see all the icons and am not sure what to copy into Notepad in order to make the batch file. I can’t copy these icons in there, can I? I think I’m confused as to what I’m supposed to do. So where it stands now, after I set compatability in SCIV file to WIN98/256 colors and try to run, nothing is happening. But I realize that I probably can’t go any further without being able to run using VDMS, since I can’t even do that with the SCIV file. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks again!
