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(re: re: re: re: Getting Kings Qest 7 to run on Windows Millenium)
I tried the patch but is didn’t do anything. I’m gonna try building a pentium computer with my spare parts.
(re: Whoa whoa WHOA!!!)
Who would want Valve & Half-life. 🙂 They haven’t done anything in years. They would probley more of a leech then anyting. But, if VU still wanted to sell it’s game sections (Sierra, Blizzard, etc) then maybe someone could pull it off, buti’m pretty sure VU woul charge more then what the companies are worth…
(re: re: Kings Quest 4 AGI etc..)
Hey Brandon this SDOX is a verry neat thing…..
me like eee
It’s like a All-In-One hint book complete timesaver
If you ever get to needing it ofcourse..(re: run old games on newer pc)
Even better are new patches that fix the timer bugs. These patches really work. QfG is now playable all the way through on a fast machine, without emulators or slowdown utilities. And more patches are being made. Get them here:
http://geocities.com/belzorash/
Though DOSBox is still good for other issues, such as the save bug in GK1 when played in Win 2k/XP.
(re: re: re: Getting Kings Qest 7 to run on Windows Millenium)
Try downloading:
ftp://ftp.sierra.com/pub/patches/pc/kq7pat.exe
Copy it to your KQ7 folder and run it to extract it. This patch is for your version and is supposed address some lockups.
(Whoa whoa WHOA!!!) Recently I’ve been seeing alot of people coming up with ideas, plots, schemes, etc…, for trying to ‘retake Sierra’. Why?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but the main benefit from getting Sierra back would be the quest games, as well as Half-Life, Homeworld, and the Tolkien lisence. However, consider this:
All of the heavily estabished ‘old sierra’ games are on around their eighth game (except for Quest for Glory, but that is one of the few series which was actually completed). At this point, it would be extremely hard to restart any of those series (plot holes would spring up and multiply, because of either new teams, or just the long hiatus between games). Getting new people to play the a new game would be difficult too, because the sheer amount of intimidation caused by the number 8.
Furthermore, with those three huge properties above, it would be pretty impossible to get Vivendi to let go of it.
Which is why I suggest this: all of you people (myself included) who grew up with the goal of working at Sierra… let go of it.
Before I get a whole bunch of people trying frantically to find Blair Smith’s (me) address, so you can tie me up and hang me, let me clarify. The goal shouldn’t be the uphill battle of trying to reclaim sierra, but to make games with the spirit of sierra in mind. Getting a successful company together, which would produce high quality games, with a similar working environment, and similar direction. If such a company could actually wedge it’s way into a market dominated by EA, Activision, and other such behemoths… it would be a far greater victory than reclaiming Sierra would.Okay, now you can tie me up and hang me! 😀
(re: Old interview with Ken)
I’d also like to point out that internet based games are going to increase dramatically in the near future, as more and more people get fast broadband connections, as well as computer which are able to handle them.
(re: re: Sierra games changed my life!)
there is a program called dosbox that runs old games. It can be found at http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/
(re: re: My Sierra Collection)
Thanks Brad! Sadly, those tapes you see are a couple of my Mystery Science Theater 3000 tapes…. 🙂 Yes the flip-box versions of Space Quest and King’s Quest are my favs, it took me forever to find them in good shape, all the ones I usually see on ebay look horrible! I hope to have a real cool display for my games on day, I’m remodeling a home theater room and plan on putting them in there….one day! 🙂
(Re: Apology) Hello
Ken W., Please be honest with me. Don’t lie. I am serious on this. Are you really Ken Williams, founder of the once great Sierra On-line, or is that just a nickname you use on the site? I apologize for any disrespect or insult taken, but I have not been on the site in a long time so I don’t know.
(re: My Sierra Collection) Very nice Collection Rygar! Are any of those video tapes lying on top of the boxes Sierra related? See you got an original EGA Space Quest flip-box release – I loved that style on Space Quest, my flip-box copy unfortuantely has seen better days.
-Brad
(Re: Important information…..) Ken,
It is clear that you are not a spammer and whoever makes such a baseless accusation should do well to look in the mirror before looking at others. I can only hope that you do not take this senseless attack of character personally, as to do so would only serve to cause harm and not good (something that I believe you are not capable of doing.)
Whoever utilizes this service for spamming or other nefarious purposes should do well to go elsewhere and tarnish this good site with their presence no more. Enough said (I hope). 😉
-David Reese
(At the risk of sounding ‘uncool’…) I just stumbled upon your site, and I am now extremely happy. I’ve been wondering for a while what happened to the developers of my favorite childhood games, and now that I have found out…
But I’m getting ahead of myself. My name is Blair Smith, I’m seventeen years old, and I am a devout Sierra game player, even now. Among my earliest and fondest memories are my dad and I trying to get Rosella out of the whale. I couldn’t type (I couldn’t even read at that point), so my dad did all the actual playing, but we worked at it and at it… until we resolved to buy a hint book.
I’m not quite sure about this, but according to my parents, I actually learned how to read off Kings Quest IV, Mixed up Fairy Tales, and Gold Rush. “You loved those three games, but your dad couldn’t play them for you all the time, so you eventually figured out how to read off them,” is what my mom says. Sounds a little too smart for something I could do, but I do know that I did love those games.
Since then, I moved on to play beat five out of eight kings quest games (I only found king’s quest one, three, and eight recently, still working on them) and gobble up every other sierra game I could find.
I am starting to ramble on at this point, so I’ll bring this to a close. Ken & Roberta Williams, you two, along with so many people who work at Sierra, have brought me so much as a child, and as a teenager, and as an almost-adult. At the risk of sounding ‘uncool’, I’ll say this: You two, along with the other developers of old sierra, are gods in my pantheon. Take that as you will, but that is as much gratitude I can give in one post.(Apology) My apologies for my earlier email…..
I was in a grumpy mood because I received an email that I thought was accusing me of being a spammer. After calming down, I realized that the process to remove yourself from my mailing list is more obscure than it needs to be. As someone pointed out, I can add a link to the emails that are sent out that makes it a “one-click” solution to unsubscribe from the mailing list. I’m traveling now, but will add that code early next week.
Thank you again for registering for my site, and my apologies for any emails you received that could have been avoided…
-Ken W
(Re: A suggestion for Ken Williams) I AGREE!! Thanks for re-affirming what I’ve been saying for years.
—(Re: A suggestion for Ken Williams) I gotta tell ya, I prefer the older computers/games compared to the new ones. Back in the day, everything wasn’t run & gun. It was adventure, where you had to use your head to solve different puzzles. Each game was different back then, where as now the games all seem the same. Whatever happened to the quality games?
(Re: A suggestion for Ken Williams) Matthew is right. I too picked up an old computer but I got mine from a yard sale here in town for only $10.00. These old PC’s are great to play the older games on.
I also picked up my 4th commodore 64 computer for $15.00. It even came with a box of 20 old c64 games that have never been opened. 🙂
– Travis
(Re: A suggestion for Ken Williams) I went and got an old P200 machine (Surplus from a locally-based HMO
here in Seattle) for $10. It came with 64MB RAM, P200MMX Proc, SB
AWE64, 32x CD-ROM, FDD, and 4MB PCI VGA. I added a 6.4GB HDD and
installed MS-DOS 6.22. Had to go to get drivers from
Link: http://www.soundblaster.com(http://www.soundblaster.com)
so it would
work in DOS. No issues thus far! If you have room for a 2nd PC,
look around at the computer surplus or recycle stores. Some GREAT
deals are to be had at these places!Matthew
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(Re: Sierra Quests on the Mobiles Link)
Dear Oleg,
I totally disagree. First off, mobile phones were designed, originally, to
be phones. To create Sierra games on the phones would require the following:
(1) Very long battery life, (2) Dedicated user that have plenty of HOURS to
waste, (3) A 70’s child mentality.Personally, I hate cell/mobile phones. They cause more problems then
anything else. The technology is still very “static” (pun intended.) They
divert ones attention from the duties at hand. They are now transformed from
ways to communicate to ways of entertainment. ‘Playing’ with your phone
could cost you your job. Driving with your phone could cost your life.
Relying on your cell phone to work in all locations is fantasy, (sales
pitch.) The technology is still new. I feel the games on phones are ‘more
buttons to push’. A large selling point for cellphone companies.I will only buy a cellphone when these criterias are reached:
– Cellphone reception is as clear as a rotary pulse telephone.
– Cellphone can be heard by every tower no matter where you’re at.
– Cellphone charges come under the price of owning a home telephone line.
– Cellphone companies take out all the stupid ‘bells and whistles’ that
you are billed extra for.Sierra games should only be computer games.
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(re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Which games are now public domain?)
Ladies and Gentlemen,
All AGI Sierra quests DO run on the mobiles today!
Check out http://opentrap.narod.ru The sad thing that VUG was not interested in that…
Oleg
(re: Playing old games on new systems) Great, whatever lights your fire. It was only a suggestion. BTW, it’s a non-issue finding ROMs, if you know where to look.
DD(re: Getting Kings Qest 7 to run on Windows Millenium)
What version do you have? Look for a file in the root directory of the CD called “VERSION” and open it up in Notepad. The first version of KQ7 had problems running on windows 95, so it would on Me as well. If you have version 1.4 and up, it should run on Me (You need version 2 to run on XP.) There was no patch to update version 1 to 1.4. If your version is is not at least 1.4 and there is no DOS version on your disc, then I’m afraid you are out of luck. You would need Windows 3x to run the game.
PS You could try “Virtual PC” with Win 31 installed in it. I don’t know if you can still download a free trial version of VPC since Microsoft bought it or not.
(re: re: Playing old games on new systems)
DOSBox does Tandy emulation with all three voices. No need of ROMs either. NAGI also plays all three.
(re: re: List of Sierra Products) Josh,
I have two copies of Story Maker. They are both 1984 and both in a Clamshell style case. However there are small differences between the two. There is a Sierra Online Building release that has a Serif font treatment for it’s layout, and a few more words on the box, and then a Sierra Online Inc. release which is a little more concise as far as wording, but uses a more fun “Marker like” font which I think works better for selling the software – which is probably why they changed it. I’ll try to get some box scans posted. I’ll try to dig up more for your list.
-Brad
