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I’d love a Laura Bow movie. Suspense. Murder. Oh, that would be fun.
I have a computer game called Sim Cinema, where you make movies and release them and see if they are sucseful, etc. So far, I have made these movies in the Laura Bow Series:
Laura Bow: The Colonel’s Bequest (Budget: $99mil) Gross: $133 mil
Laura Bow: The Dagger Amon-Ra (Budget: $100mil) Gross: $199mil
Laura Bow: Night of the Opera (Budget: $108mil) Gross: $115mil
Laura Bow: The Tower of London (Budget: $110mil) Gross: $121milThey’re are all succesful! I’m going to make more. But in each of them, Steven Spielberg directs and Rachel McAdams plays Laura. I would just love the idea of a Laura Bow movie.
Don’t ask me to explain Vivendi’s actions. I gave up long ago.
I could say more, but anything I might type would inevitably involve language not appropriate to this website.
-Ken W
Ken, from a management point of view, why would Vivendi hold onto the old game license and not attempt to make money with them. Do they only want the Sierra name?
Currently, Nancy Drew by Herinteractive, games are in their 12th sequel! Laura Bow would do well in such a market. Have Vivendi managers been taking a nap? If Herinteractive can come up with twelve games and Vivendi zero with a liscense for Laura Bow, what are the managers thinking?
I by no means think “Laura Bow” is the only game they should have released by now. It just shows that Vivendi’s managers are being very short sighted.
Enough of my &@&#*(&.
Thanks guys for your replies. “The boat” is the picture on the “Welcome from Ken Williams” link has you and Roberta with a little doggy on it….Love the responses. Thank you!
Check out this thread with a similar topic:
http://www.sierragamers.com/bbs/BBSTopicPage.asp/t/4125/p/1
I also believe that some documentary effort (Sierra’s history) will eventually come into play as part of the Sierra archival work we are doing.
Hi!
I do think you should buy another SB soundcard. If you buy a Sound Blaster AWE32 you’ll be able to use the General Midi/Roland MT32 emulation tools which will greatly enchance the midi music quality in Sierra DOS based games (only a few have native AWE32 support under DOS). All Windows based games run great with the AWE32.
If you don’t get/have/find drivers for the AWE32 I’ll send them to you! I have all original disks.
Grtz
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“… (by Janellejhollars@tampabay.rr .com) I tried following these instructions, I also didn’t have the HDLOGO.avi file to delete… I did everything other than that, when I try to run the KQ6.vlp I end up getting an error “SCIKQ6V has caused a general protection fault in module KRNL386.exe at 0001:A01C” and am forced to close, any thoughts? 🙂
…”Very bizarre. 🙂
Why not run the DOS version? Better graphics (arguably) and much simpler to run. Under XP, just install DOS and run it with VDM Sound (and Speedset) for full working sound.
– Alistair
Hey I’ve got it working now. Thanks guys! For some reason not everything got installed off my CD but now that I’ve copied all the necessary files over it works great.
I tried following these instructions, I also didn’t have the HDLOGO.avi file to delete… I did everything other than that, when I try to run the KQ6.vlp I end up getting an error “SCIKQ6V has caused a general protection fault in module KRNL386.exe at 0001:A01C” and am forced to close, any thoughts? 🙂
oops well i found this on another part of this forum, and i think it may be fixing the problem…
hi. i did what you said about King’s Quest 6 and everything worked except when i tried to run it with VDMS. it said CAN’T FIND INTERP.ERR. please help!!”
I can help here. What has happened is that you put the batch file in another folder. Probably in a higher-up folder or something. Find the .bat file and put it into the folder where “INTERP.ERR” is (it’s also the folder where SCIWV.EXE is located). Then right click that, use with VDMS, and it should work fine. If VDMS created another shortcut file, and you want to use the same one, right-click the shortcut file, and where it says “DOS Command line,” click the Change button, and it should give you the option to find the .bat file wherever you have moved it.
-A
hey
i’m having the exact same problem too.i have windows xp pro
i’ve set my display to 256color, 640×480
i’ve tried VDMSsound..and i’m getting “Can’t find INTERP.ERR.. message in VDMS? what gives? anyone had any luck getting the good version of KQ6 to load (the version that has pretty/superior graphics than the DOS version?)
thanks
ralphAmanda,
Setup.exe installs the Windows version, install.exe installs the DOS version. In XP, KQ6 is probably better run in DOS, with VDM Sound (not DOSBOX).
Select ‘General MIDI’ for music, and ‘Sound Blaster’ for sound, assuming you have some sound card or onboard chip sound.
Simply right-click Sierra.exe and select run with VDMS, and you should get flawless performance (well, the music will run too slowly, you need a VDM Sound addon for that, and there’s possibly a timer bug in there somewhere, but c’est la vie. Besides, I can fix those if you want).
– Alistair
This one’s for the Sierra former crew:
When I visited I was told there were no large archive areas at Headquarters. Were there archives at all? Does the Sierra holder now have early versions of software?
–Dave
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“… (by Corey Cole) Everyone pretty much said it, but I’ll confirm:1. Lori’s main “job” these days is running http://www.howtobeahero.com. If only we could find a way to make money from it! 🙂
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Hey Corey! I e-mailed you a few years ago about getting into game programming advice–appreciated your response. We finally made a game with Director MX called “The Cancer Game” http://www.cancergame.org
You should be eligible to join Adsense at Google (www.google.com/adsense) and you might make at least enough to pay your hosting costs. You can have less than intrusive adlinks (recommended, they’re tiny) and small, medium, or large text ads. I’ve had a lot of luck with Adsense, but it’s obviously not right for everyone.
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“… (by Ken Williams)
Doesn’t trademark law have a 17 year timeclock? Does anyone know? Or, is it 75 years? I don’t remember. If it is 17 years, Mystery House is public domain anyhow.
…”Ken, I think you might be partially right on both measures of time. Copyrights used to last 70 years or so, but were recently moved up to 90 years. Companies like Disney lobby to get the length increased every time early Mickey Mouse cartoons (for example) start nearing their public domain dates. I think we can safely say that these terms will keep increasing forever.
However, there is a “use it or lose it” clause of sorts. The license for the old ’80’s series “The Bard’s Tale” was acquired by an independent company for free to make last year’s remake because Interplay had not done anything with the property for a certain period of time. That might be something like 17 years. The creator of the new “Bard’s Tale” believes that hundreds of games fall under that provision. Worth looking into…
Come to think of it, it must be shorter than 17 years, as the Bard’s Tale games were released in compilations as early as 6 years ago I believe.
Maybe we should be hoping that Vivendi does *not* re-release the old Sierra games.
haha, very funny :P, did anyone else notice that he seems always be listening to Evanescence’s Bring Me To Life (one of my favourite bands, but give it a rest, haha)
[Config.sys]
Device=C:\SB16\DRV\SBCD.sys /D:MSCD001 /P:220[Autoexec.bat]
c:\SB16\DRV\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD001 /V /M:15I’m guessing these are the drivers I am missing 🙁
Ok guys,
I got a Packard Bell 204CD system, 24 Megs Ram, 486 Dx2 66Mhz, 500mg hard drive, etc.
It came with Windows 95 installed. I formatted and installed DOS 6.22. I have jet to get Windows 3.1. I had to hunt down a replacement battery and actually buy and use a solder gun for the first time 🙂
Anyways, it had some sort of Aztech brand sound card in it. The Cd-Rom Drive is connected to it! To make a long story short, I bought a Creative Labs CT1740 Soundblaster 16 with the Cd-Drive interface so I could replace this aztech thing and play my wonderful old Sierra collection in style!
Problem is, The Soundblaster 16 didn’t come with the original disks, and the drivers I have found on the internet don’t install the Cd-interface, and thusly I cannot use my Cd-Rom drive.
Is there any way around this? Should I buy a different model Soundblaster? Awe32, etc?
Any help would greatly appreciated!
The message board is in the process of being rewritten. The new version is less than a week away. Once we get it live, we can see if this bug still exists.
-Ken W
thanks alot for your suggestions. I think my peice of crap graphics card was the problem. I just bought a new card yesterday to switch from my onboard 32 mb one now i can finally see the mouse with the windows version without having to edit anything. Thanks alot for all the input folks.. to kings quest 5 I go!
I also noticed that when you are viewing new posts, if the topic contains a word that is too long for the column, it just truncates it. Although it does keep the link (clickable area) long enough.
thank you for the reply. it’s really good to hear from another ex-sierra employee. i had no idea that QG5 was coded in c++. i figured it was just done in an updated version of the SCI engine. thanks for the insight.
