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Actually, there’s a file where he tells Rosella and Valanice that they are late for lunch, possible an epilogue part. It is still on the CD, so you can find it if you know how, or you can track it down on the web. I’e heard it, it’s not worth much.
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“… (by Levi Wilhelmsen) Well I’m a little embarrassed
…”Don’t sweat it. We’re all entitled to a little slip up every now and then.
I visited my Sierra Vault about a week ago and found the letter I received when the InterAction CD Project was cancelled. I’ll scan it for Brandon to post in the archives, but here’s the text version:
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September 12, 1995
Dear Customer,
This letter is to inform you the we have canceled plans for the Sierra Multimedia Club. Your credit card has been credited, or if payment was by check you will find a refund check enclosed. Your order for the Sierra Multimedia Club has been canceled.
We apologize for any inconvenience or disappointment that this decision has created. We have worked long and hard to bring this concept to reality, but ultimately decided that we could not deliver a CD-ROM quarterly that would live up to the standards that Sierra sets for itself.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this matter, please contact us at the address below:
John C. Williams
Executive Editor
InterAction Magazine
P.O. Box 53008
Bellvue, WA 98027-3008——-
Tom.
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“… (by Levi Wilhelmsen) He speaks during the intro, The crown staffer says, “We seem to be running a surplus in grain this year!”Then Grahahm says, “Excellent, We must begin construction, immediately on a new silo!”
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…”That was from the intro for MoE, not KQ7.
That was King’s Quest II actually 🙂
And there are tons… too many to list! Perhaps everyone will chip in with their favorites though. There are a lot especially in the Space Quest series.
He speaks during the intro, The crown staffer says, “We seem to be running a surplus in grain this year!”
Then Grahahm says, “Excellent, We must begin construction, immediately on a new silo!”
etc.
The chat transcript for KQ9.org’s 3rd Anniversary chat is now available at: http://www.kq9.org/chatlogs/kq9birthday2005.php
I’d like to thank everyone that attended. It was a huge success!
What are the current programming platforms? OpenGL? I have worked with Tomb Raiders level editor but I am sure that cannot be used to market a game. I would like to find a 3D game engine that uses physics and trig / calculus to control projections, speed and object behavior based on its material.
Most games create the reaction of things based on a trigger. I would like to base it on science. As computers become faster this may be possible. Instead of a 3D polygon, things could be solids with atomic properties.
Thanks for replying, Emily.
It turned out QG5 Mac wouldn’t install beyond the first bunch of files. The PC version (on the same discs) installs and runs without any problems. I can only imagine that the game has some kind of problem with MacOS 8.1. Not being experienced with Macs, I have no idea where to begin troubleshooting this.
I’ve downloaded some games from Mac abandonware sites, and am planning on running them this coming weekend. I’d appreciate if you could tell me how to format the CD or 3.5″ disk for transferring files from PC to Mac. I already tried one CD this past weekend, but the Mac wouldn’t read it at all.
That’s great information… Too bad I have.. um.. ‘lent’ those to some friends, and since then, they were not seen again… Internet is indeed a great palce to.. build up your past again! 😛
I don’t know you are still reading this, but Quest Studios has posted many of the game’s tracks to supplement the OST original ones (which aren’t for download)
I brought the matterof KQVII being the only game where Graham makes no appearance and I was told that indeed, he appears in the credits, possibly from cuy off dialogues
Thanks ever so much….now they run without problems 🙂 But now there’s another thing that I can’t get to work though. I had to buy KQVII again due to a bad crack in the CD and I can install it, but not get it to run 🙁 I get an application error message which reads: “The instruction at 00000000 referenced memory at 00000000. The memory could not be read from. Click on OK to terminate the application.”
And whenever I try to run the Setup configuration test to see if my computer meets the required settings I get an error message when trying to test the speed at my cd rom, saying “integer divide by 0”. I don’t get this, does anyone know what I can do to make it work??? Or was it just a waste of money????On behalf of the KQIX Development Team, I’d like to thank Ken and Roberta Williams for attending the event as special guests!
For those who were unable to attend, we will be posting the chat log sometime this week. You may see a summary of the gifts we released in Newsletter #6 at: http://www.kq9.org/media/newsletter/
Just letting you know in advance that we’re half an hour away from starting the chat, so if you havn’t yet decided to come, we strongly urge you to.
For your convinience: http://www.kq9.org/chat
Hope to see you there!
Hello everyone,
I am very pleased to announce that Ken and (possibly) Roberta Williams will be attending the KQ9.org Birthday Chat!
For those unaware, Ken & Roberta Williams are the original creators of the King’s Quest series and countless others.
So there’s no excuse not to come!
Jesse Black,
PR Assistant – Unofficial KQIX Development TeamAlright guys, play nice. This “argument” about technical support has been going on long enough. Everyone has had time to make different points. Please stop now!
Alistair, I guess that I will have to be direct since you are really missing the point here: Larry 7 runs fine on Windows XP and 2000 using compatibility mode, I (and many others) have completed the game this way and can assure you that it works fine. It may surprise you, but this really is one of those rare cases where compatibility mode does work.
You seem to be flaming solutions without even having tried them yourself. For instance Klaus’ comment earlier in this thread about changing the Windows XP theme to classic, if you had tried it then you would have known that it solves the installation problems, but instead you decide to flame it because you “fail to see how this would achieve anything”. If you do not know what you are talking about then you should not “contribute” to the thread.
I also found your comment about eBay sellers (which I feel was directed at me) really ignorant. As an eBay seller AND a classic game enthusiast, I always make sure that I know how to run the games on Windows XP before selling them so that I can provide my buyers with some technical support. This means that if a game requires VDMSound or DOSBox to run on XP I advise to use those tools, but if a game only requires compatibility mode then I advise to use that. In the case of Larry 7 only compatibility mode is required, if hundreds of my customers (and thousands of people visiting my site) have tried it and find it (judging from all the email that I get) to be a good solution, then who are you to complain?
To reply to Johann first, I totally agree. Microsoft is a disgrace. In any other industry, it would be illegal to disclose so little information, when applying for intellectual property protection, and to make programs so backwards-compatibless (you know what I mean, even if I had to invent a phrase 🙂 ). Microsoft is lucky in that it was founded in the US of A, where most things go (are acceptible)in the realm of IP.
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“…I completely agree! Who do those darn eBay sellers think they are? Giving their buyers simple, working and proven solutions instead of needlessly complicated ones, the nerve! I think it’s just plain wrong that they deprive their buyers of an intellectual challenge! Don’t they know that the frustration of getting an old DOS game to work on XP is almost as much fun as playing the actual game?I’m so 1337 that I run all my old Sierra games in a DOSBox that runs in Wine that I installed on Linux which runs on my VMWare installation on Windows XP! Do eBay sellers ever tell you to do that? No! Because they’re all stupid n00bs! Aaaarrgghhhh!!!!! …”
God, this guy is something else! But some of the comments I’ve made have been (almost) equally shocking, so I’d better be fair here..Well, first of all, calling Ebay sellers giving tech support as “giving simple proven advice” is simply a falsehood. ‘Compatibility modes’ are NOT a means of tech support. If anything, they confuse the issue. They don’t actually DO anything, except change screen resolutions and colour palettes (which only helps a very small number of cases).
To that end, I’ve never seen a helpful comment made with regards to tech support, made by an Ebay seller on their auction. That’s my point, nothing else. I’m definitely of the opinion that wrong tech support is worse than none at all 🙂The notion that by trying to actually make sure advice is fitted to the problem, and actually being correct as well (and that people giving it have a frickin’ clue what they’re talking about 🙂 ), is somehow wanting to deprive people of tech support, making it harder to get the games working, is just an embarrassing comment.
On some forum the other day I read someone actually telling a fan (in terms of giving them tech support) something they obviously didn’t understand themselves, and saying that ‘Sierra games were my [their] specialty’. Now, if someone’s dishing out advice that’s wrong, and calling that their specialty, that seems to be the type of notion that Barry here advocates. Which I assume would not be the case.
The second paragraph should just be ignored, by anyone reading.. too late for me, I had to read it. 😛
At any rate, I don’t advocate any of the methods (albeit sarcastic ones) Barry listed in his joke paragraph. Except DOSBOX (in limited circumstances), the rest don’t really have much use (as Sierra game-enablers). XP is always made harder than it is.. people usually make it harder on themselves to run the games. But I’m digressing. What the hell was the original topic? LSL7 bugs? I wonder why this thread got revived.
Regards,
– AlistairKeep in mind. While the scenes in the game are the same, and I am using Sludge Vohaul as the villain (how can I not?) – the story I am creating is slightly different than Space Quest the games… (You will see in Episode II, when Wilco falls into something… and lands… somewhere else… and when he exits one screen, it leads to something different)… 🙂 This way I can try to offer some silly new content by using all the classic stuff. 🙂
I’d love to get a hold of Scott Murphy or Mark Crowe to have them check out this little bit of madness. 🙂
Ah ha! Done uploading!
http://www.tawmis.com/sierra/SQM-EPII.zip
Space Quest – Episode II – “As Long As There’s No…” – This one is just over 6 minutes and will cost you 16.something megs on your precious hard drive! In this episode Roger Wilco tries to find his way off of Pota… only to find himself in more trouble than he started with! The old saying, out of the frying pan and into the bushes sure applies here! How will Wilco get out of this one? Well, wait till Episode III and find out!
Lighthouse was a PC / Mac hybrid. I can’t think of any others right now
I have a Mac copy of KQ7 that I can’t use (I have OSX and it won’t run in Classic mode). If you’d like it, email me with your address and I’ll stick it in the mail for you. I might also have a couple of games on floppies but I can’t guarantee the floppies still work.
-emily
