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Wow, thats pretty graphic, it seems that this edition of Ms. Bow’s series will be all taking place traped in the Opera house? Look forward to the 4th edition, you know how to make a story worth reading. Great job.
Theres this great game over at abandonia.com called 5 Days a Stranger. It was made in 2003 by this guy and its a great game. A family is dead and you go into the mansion to take their possessions (since tis up for grabs) and get locked in with 4 other people. Great little game, bloddy, and a great whodunnit/ghost story.
We are going to try a shot of steroids in the affected area before we go with surgery. I get that Aug 5th. I really don’t like waiting so long for this, but what can I do?
One other suggestion, could the table widths be done by percent instead of pixels. This would make it more compatible with a greater range of screen resolutions. I have mine set at 1600×1200 and it is squeezed into a narrow table. This might also help with the poster names getting cut off at the edge.
I bought a brand new sealed copy of the Police Quest Collection and it came with NO copy protection at all, just a little leaflet (it was the UK version of the collection, where apparently this did happen). Great… who’s bright idea was that???!
Thank goodness I already had most of the original docs (well, except my ‘budget release’ PQ3 left out the stupid code in the manual… was it on the cover?), but it was a real pain to get a new copy tracked down at last, then find a manufactuing mistake eons ago meant I’d got an ‘incomplete’ copy. 🙁
Cheers,
BanjoBe glad you didn’t, like me, get the OzzieSoft budget version of Police Quest 3… where they left out the copy protection info in the manual!!!!! No matter who I contacted, nobody could help, until a year or so later I found the answer on a magazine cover CD (this is way back before I’d even heard of the internet). In fact, PQ seems to suffer this fate a lot… I recently bought a sealed copy of the PQ collection and found it too contained NO copy protection (or even manual, just a quickstart card thingy) at all!!!! In the old days, no probs ’cause I could’ve written to Sierra. Now… 🙁 One expects a chance of a ripoff when using Ebay, etc, but not buying new (even if outdated) games! LOL!
Cheers,
BanjoI also can’t help you guys but I am looking I haven’t bought Police quest 2 yet but my copy of three came without a manual aswell. Sorry.
The treasure is only extra points. But if you walk in slow mode to the right you should get it. Make sure you start out at the base of the Palm tree.
Are you on Chapter 6? If so you saw King Otar do it before. Just click (with the mouse and not the shovel. Although if you didn’t play Chapter 4 you need to get the flower that’s hanging outside the grate, Click the shovel on the stone and you should get it.) Left eye, right eye, nose. The safe door looks like a face, right? So the left eye would be the left button and the right eye would be the right button and the nose would be that lever in the middle.
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“… (by collector ) I had not noticed that I had Javascript turned off. With Javascript on, it seems to work OK in Firefox, though as mentioned, the tables cut off the posting user information. Perhaps there needs to be script to detect if Javascript is enabled and warn that you need to turn it on, if it is not. …”Good idea. We worked for a while yesterday on fixing the “Firefox bug”. I thought we had it, but then noticed one other strange thing. Maybe today…
-Ken W
I had not noticed that I had Javascript turned off. With Javascript on, it seems to work OK in Firefox, though as mentioned, the tables cut off the posting user information. Perhaps there needs to be script to detect if Javascript is enabled and warn that you need to turn it on, if it is not.
i really like the humor in the story… very fun 🙂 e.g. the shoe being hung near a sign reminding people not to feed the moat monster…
I am running version 1.0.4 of Firefox and the drag & drop works fine for me. The tables cut off the posting user information in New Messages, though.
Same problem with the text extending past the end of the table on Safari, on my Mac.
The drag and drop seems to be working, though.
Act Three: Chilled to the Bone
Laura opened the operhouse doors and was greeted by a tiny man with a pin stripe suit.
“You must be Laura…and you must be Steve!” He said. “Oh, where are my manners? I am Mr. Gorchan.”
Steve shook the man’s hand and Laura followed.
“Well, the tour must begin.” Mr. Gorchan said. Laura and Steve walked into the tremendous hall of the opera, full of marble and gold. Mr. Gorchan shut the large operahouse doors and quickly locked them. “We don’t want anyone else inside!” He joked.
“Who else is in here?” Laura asked. Her investigative instinct got the best of her.
“Me, you two, Madam Fifi, Sir Pierre and Madam LaLaurie.” Mr. Gorchan listed.
“Who are the last three you named?” Steve inquired.
“Oh, those are our actor and actresses. They’re currently in the theatre rehearsing.”
Mr. Gorchan lead them through the large room, and showed them everyhting. He finally neared a door, unlocked it, and when everyone entered, locked it again.
“This is the back stage, and leads directly to the stage.”
Laura could hear the voices of the man and women on the stage, singing a beautiful song. They journeyed into the old, dark backstage and saw the dressign rooms and prop rooms, lined with nostalgic memorabilia.
They finnaly exited through the curtains, and were greeted to the huge theatre, and lights shinging on them. Steve and Laura watched from across the stage at the singing angels who belted out the most wonderful tunes.
They stopped.
“Oh, why hello!” Sir Pierra said. Madam LaLaurie looked over, as did Madam FiFi.
Steve and Laura greeted each one of them.
“So, you are Laura?” Fifi asked.
“Yes, that’s me.”
“I heard of your past. Not to worry, all is calm and settle here!” Sir Pierre joked.
Little did everyone know, Laura was already dealing with a circumstance of her own.
“I must go freshen up in my dressing room. I shall return.” Madame LaLaurie walked off, leaving everyone behind.
Mr. Grochan hopped off the stage, and sat in one of the seats.
“Laura, Steve, come sit and enjoy Pierre and Fifi.”
Laura and Steve joined Mr. Grochan.
The actors sang more. Then, the spotlight shining on the two was quickly blacked out, as a figure walked past the light. Laura and Steve turned around and looked up at the light.
“What was that?!” Asked Laura.
Mr. Grochan looked unhappy. “How do I know? This theatre is locked! Even if someone got into the operahouse, all the doors into the theatre itself are sealed…no worries…probabbly a bat.”
“Oh, how comforting.” Fifi said from the stage.
Suddenly, a scream was heard. Everyone jumped up.
“It was LaLaurie!” shouted Pierre.
They all raced into the dressing room, but the door was locked.
“LALAURIE!” They all screamed. No anwser. They tried to break down the door, but nothign happened. They promptly took an old stage light that was broken off the floor and threw it towards the locked door. It smashed into pieces, and the group ran into the room, shatterd oak all over. In the middle of the room was a chest that was never there before.
“What…what is it?!” Steve cried.
Laura slowly walked towards it…she finally opened it. Her scream was defeaning…
They all looked inside.The acid-burnt skeleton of Madam LaLaurie lay there, pieces of flesh and muscle stil clinging to it.
Laura screamed and fell into Steve’s arms. Fifi began crying hysterically. Mr. Grochan just sat down, dazed. Pierre fell to his knees.
“Who could have…DONE such an awful thing?!” Cried Laura.“Someone else is here…in the theatre. You all stay here, me and Steve will go get help.” Mr. Grochan said.
“What? No!” Steve cried.
“Just come!!” Mr. Grochan yelled.
Steve and him ran to the main entrance. Mr. Grochan took out his keys…but the lock was cemented.
“Oh my god…!”
They ran to the back entrance. The same thing.
They realized they were stuck, and ran into the theatre, locking all the doors.
“Everyone into the seating area!”“We all must stay here. If we leave, we are in danger. At least now we’re safe. The killer is either in the lobby around the theatre, or inside. If we’re all together in open sight, we’re fine.” Mr. Grochan said to Fifi, Pierre, Steve and Laura, who sat in the seats, looking up at him. Mr. Grochan, standing on the stage, just finished his speech when out of the curtain behind him came and ax. It slice in the center of his head, and he fell to the ground, blood and brain matter surrouunding him. The screams were loud enough to shatter glass.
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“… (by Ken Williams)
In the 70s, Sierra probably shipped more product, developed using an object oriented language, than the rest of the software industry combined.
…”That’s interesting, I thought everything Sierra did was strictly prodedural up to SCI/KQ4. But I will assume that KQ4 cast the widest net in forcing your people to learn an object oriented language when I ask this question – How many problems were there getting your programmers to change gears over to OO when SCI rolled out?
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“… (by Chris Schweiter) Can you give myself and the others on this board insight as to the process you and Jeff went through to create AGI?
…”Prior to starting Sierra, I was working as a software developer doing compiler development. I had worked on lots of different compiler-related projects, including: a Fortran compiler, a spreadsheet-style product (years before Visicalc), a SQL-style database query language, etc. Compilers were always interesting to me.
Sierra’s very first games – the Hi-Res Adventure series, used a very primitive programming language.
I don’t recall AGI being developed as part of the Kings Quest 1 IBM project, but suspect you are right. We wanted to take a major jump forward, and the language we were using for the adventure games was too confining. It had almost no “procedural code” capability. AGI added variables, looping, branching and animation, and the simulated 3-D effect. My recollection is that most of the code was written by Jeff Stephenson. I don’t think any of the code in AGI is mine. I was involved, but more on the design than the coding side.
Jeff Stephenson drove SCI more than I did, and deserves most of the credit. At the time, object oriented languages were still in the “theoretical stage.” This was a decade before Visual Basic. Jeff was a bit of an intellectual, and was watching object oriented languages evolve. I didn’t really “get it” at the time. Jeff wrote a demo of what he was trying to accomplish, and walked me through what an object was. We moved ahead based on my belief in Jeff, not because I really believed in Object Oriented languages. In the 70s, Sierra probably shipped more product, developed using an object oriented language, than the rest of the software industry combined.
I wish I had more memories for you .. but, this was a LONG time ago, and my memory of this is starting to fade.
-Ken W
I think that was probably when this site had header images for each area of the message board… a long time ago! Work is being done on an all-inclusive Sierra site, that we can eventually put Manhunter stuff into along with all the other Sierra games. In the meantime, fan sites are still always great things to do!
Cool buy… congrats! Dunno about the Field Manual… mine has a black cover too (I have a couple of copies, now I recall, but I’m almost certain all have black covers).
Cheers,
BanjoHi Brandon! (and other fellow Manhunter fans too)
I’ve been a looooong time away from the net but as I got a new PC and got online today, I was curious to check out this neat site once again. Even though Manhunter fans (or even those who’ve heard of the games!) seem few and far between, I’m still toying with the idea of a fansite one day… made quite a few bits and bobs for it (gifs and stuff) and even started a silly little fan game (Day of Invasion). But I do kinda feel the interest in Manhunter is sort of slim… 🙁
Still, if there are Manhunter fans still around, maybe he site idea shouldn’t be left to die after all?
Cheers,
BanjoPS You mentioned something about my pic?
Thank you for letting me know.
The programmer who wrote the “New Messages” command left on a two week vacation, on Friday. I’ll see what I can do tomorrow — but, it may be a looonnnggggg two weeks.
-Ken W
