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I guess I would have to see me and Sierra go way back.
I had played a few computer games including the Oregon Trail (greenscale version) when I was in the 2nd grade. That Christmas (I believe) which would have been around 1989 our family got a hand-me-down computer with a handed-me-down version of Police Quest 1 CGA (I don’t think we had the actual disks and manual, sorry Ken!)
I was amazed at being able to interact beyond a controller. Well, I went through many more Sierra games (and started collecting them). I learned BASIC programming in the 3rd grade, and Pascal programming in 5th grade. What I wanted to do was draw backgrounds, but I wanted to know a bit about the programming end first, so that was my focus. My best friend and I put together some basic demos using Turbo Pascal, but around that time the Web got really popular (94-95) so we started doing Internet things instead. In 1996 I founded a web site so I could pay my car insurance and I geared more towards business than programming or art.
I went to college and graduated with a degree in Computer Science and Digital Media. If I can work on my drawing skills, I’m hoping to put together Flash games, which aren’t required to be 3D like every other game that comes out. I would hope to pay for the games with graphic ads and text ads.
I had hoped to work for Sierra someday, but being here makes me feel like I’m still part of the team.
i probably know less about it than you do. cpc.com is the copyright protection file, file attrib hidden on the first disk of early sierra games. it was required to insert the first disk to play. just making copies of the first disk doesn’t work. there is a nice cracker out there (i don’t have the link because i’m at work), that allows you to “fix” the game but only if you have the original cpc.com first disk. however, you don’t have to have the original cpc.com first disk for that particular game – it can be any sierra cpc’d game. it’s a nice program i use myself to make backups of sierra disks. anyway, if no one else helps you before i get home, if you tell me what version of kq3 you have i’ll email you a fixed copy of the first disk.
Definitely. For my part, I live in Puerto Rico. English is not our main language, spanish is. So for us learning english is a bit difficult. By playing Sierra games found an easy and entertaining way to learn english, due to the early type games where you had to nail the language just right for the game to work. So by that I am very thankful to the early sierra games.
Later on many aspects of Sierra games inspired me. So I am very thankful to the Sierra Famili for giving me so much growing up. 😉
I’ve finished the game now and I discovered some new things I hadn’t seen before like the corpse of that dumb big guy (I forgot his name) in the last chapter.
This game is so cool, I love almost everything about it. I wish someone would make a DVD version of it with much higher quality movies.
Can’t wait to hear from Roberta 🙂Sierra was a great influence in my choice of college degrees. I might have been a game junky for the rest of my life and been quite happy playing King’s Quest or any other Sierra game. When they stopped producing such quality games, I decided I would create my own games. I am still learning little by little. Computers today seem harder to work with from the ground up when it comes to machine code. I learned in college assembly code for the 8080. A computer that may only exist in a museum.
Sierra was a family of programmers, artist, and gammers.
If things were so turbulent durring that era Im willing to bet somewhere in the depths of some Sierra/Dynamics vault that there are some recorded voice tracks for this game…that is of course assuming that they started on the voice version before the idea was completely canned…
Remember that the entire SQ series is a spoof/tribute to Sci-fi, just from the average joe perspective…its quite possible that the series was heavily referenced throughout the games just as Star Wars, Star Trek, Aliens, etc were….
Funny I seem to remember 5 having voices as well, but I suppose thats why Gary Owens is only credited with doing the narration for 4 and 6. Im sure they would have had him on board for 5 if it was ever done…I need to find my copy of 5….
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“… (by Paul / avatar_58 ) (re: Fenrus & Eramus from 4 to 5)Yea, I remember that. I never did fully play QFG5…..maybe that’s something I should set out to do.
*pulls out QFG 1 – 4*
Better start from the beginning.…”
The only way to play…or keep an ancient floppy around of your first character that youve drug around since Hero’s Quest *blows dust off*
If you have the QFG Collection, this same info is in one of the many readmes that came on the disk, perhaps in the hidden section of the main readme (alhtough I just scrolled through it and didnt see it in there) but it does refer to what has already been mentioned about the four seasons thing and the character just not being ready for what Shadows of Darkness held in store for him…
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“… (by Øystein Lende Olsen) (re: QfG4 – Collection version vs. standalone)Are the manuals in the original games good, like in SQ and many other Sierra games, or aren’t they? Do I miss out on a lot by only having the Collection?
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Definately so. QFG4 came with the Hero’s Magazine(I forgot the actual name, but you find a copy of it on the bookshelf in the Adventurer’s Guild and a reference is made to the copy that came with the game). Anyway it was really neat, filled with all sorts of silly articles and ads for fake hero products. I dont entirely know what happened to my copy, but I remember something like it gave subdle hints to solutions in the game, so it had a function other than just a gag. They did something simular with SQ4 and I think SQ5
Im not sure when this post was made, but that is incredible news. Would you happen to have a link to a website??
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“… (by Paul / avatar_58 ) (re: re: re: re: re: re: Sierra Classics) Paying to download? One problem with that, what if something goes wrong during the download. Neither side can prove anything happened so you won’t get another download or any refund.…”
Actually thats not that big of a deal. If you’ve ever used Itunes it knows when an error occurs durring a download and lets you re-download the file. Infact, if its set up like emusic.com you can redownload anything youve purchased on your account. It really wouldnt be that difficult to set something like that up.
I haven’t figured out how to rip the SEGA CD, though I guess it must be possible to make a ROM file of it. The ROM file for RotD from this site that I linked to was at least OK, I haven’t tried the others yet. Can check these if you want me to do this. Besides the games you mentioned there is one for Silpheed I believe.
If you have the CD, is it possible to rip the CD for playing with that emulator? I have that emulator, and have long been looking for Sierra ROMs. Can anyone verify that the ROMs from that site are good? Willy Beamish, Rise of the Dragon, are there any other Sega CD Sierra ROMs?
Started to get pain in my lower left back, left hip, lower left leg and ankle. The pain went on for a month without medication, because the Doctor believed sciatica goes down the leg and involves the whole leg. He was dead wrong.
Finally got him to get me a xray. Well, after seeing the mess in my whole spinal lumbar area, he got me some medication, but the insurance company refused to pay for medication strong enough. What I got was no relief from the pain.
I went for a MRI and they found that I have 3 protuding lumbar discs one of which is sitting right on the left branch of the sciatic nerve. Plus bone spurs and my tail bone tends to stick on one side. I see the Neuro-surgeon July 15, 2005.
Well, the insurance company was forced to pay for the generic form of Vicodin and it works pretty well.Update: well it appears to be getting worse. I may have to try to get into the neuro-surgeon sooner.
Okay, I looked around and found out that my disk was dirty scratched etc. But I can’t find my cleaner spray!!! I was wondering if anyone could upload their resource.aud file for me to use.
P.S. My icon interface in KQ6 is kinda messed up. When I right-click it doesn’t change and when I click on the icon in the bar where inventory is it changes the action but not the icon. Example: I pressed the eye and I still had a talk bubble.
Brandon — will you be archiving multiple versions of the same game, too? Such as version 1.0 and 1.102 of Hero’s Quest and Quest for Glory II? And what about the version changes that are not noted on the lables (I have several copies of SQ4 for example that have different sized/dated Resource files. Probably bug fixes?)
Just curious 🙂
Tom.
**EDIT: Addition**
7/6/05I just got a TON of games in today and I was sorting through them all and found many variations of King’s Quest 4. Not only AGI and SCI, but there’s two (or three?) different SCI versions: #1.000.111, #1.006.003 and #2.0
On the other hand, I have 6 copies of Laura Bow 1 with different labels (some say, “THE COLONEL’s BEQUEST” and others just say, “Colonel’s Bequest”) but they’re all the same version. I thought this type of game would have more versions than a KQ game. Guess I was wrong!
Anyone know where I could find info on how many stages a game went through after release? Ken? 🙂
Also, for KQ6 I can’t copy the RESOURCE.AUD file. I get a message saying: Canot copy RESOURCE: Data error. (cyclic redundancy check) Any tips? (Yeah I know I said that last time)
Try setting your computer to 640×480 resolution and 256 colors before you launch the game.
To do this in XP:
Right-click desktop
Select Properties
Select Settings tab
Click Advanced
Select Adapter tab
Click List All Modes
Select 640×480 and 256 colors from the list-emily
Perhaps of interest: there’s a way to play the SEGA CD version on the PC too. For info, see http://www.game-nostalgia.com/rise/riseofthedragon_info3.html
I tried the suggestions for running KQ5 in Windows XP. After some fiddling, I got it to run, with sound. Eureka! Then I had to stop, so I saved the game and quit. When I came back to the computer, I couldn’t figure out what I had done to make the game run. I tried following the same steps as before, but couldn’t get it to run. If I just double click the KQ5.bat file that I made, the game starts, but with no sound. When I right click on the KQ5.bat file that I had made and choose “♫ Run with VDMS”, the VDMS started, but then I get an error message saying that my display driver is not supported by this game. When I click “OK” I go back to the window with the command prompt and the heading “Inactive VDMS Launchpad” at the top of the screen. It looks like the Word doc that I have attached. Any help would be appreciated.
VDMS messageI picked up my new gateway laptop and have started the process of setting up my routine quad-boot configuration. So far I’ve run into tremendous difficulties with the pcmcia cardbus controller. I had a similar issue while doing the same configuration on my old laptop, so it’s not too surprising. I’ve just about solved the issue but not after several hours of research over the course of two days.
Reflecting on this situation I’ve come to the decision that it would not be possible to properly document the procedure to create a quad-boot setup similar to my own. There are too many hardware factors that come into play that can, for the most part, be surmounted through extensive research, but such statements in a walkthrough would be inappropriate and create unnecessary pitfalls for some who may try to follow the instructions.
Most of the headache comes from Windows 95. I love the OS, for sure, but it’s a pain to setup properly on modern machines. DOS, on the other hand, is not nearly so difficult. It would be much simpler to write a walkthrough to dual-boot msdos with your current OS. That I can do for sure, laptop or pc. But right now, I have work to do and a lot more research ahead of me to get this thing running.
