Check this out! - The KQ Compilations Thread

[daventry]

Excuse me, but there is a www.sq7.org in the making, these Fan Guy's are continueing from where Sierra left off, they are just doing a very slow job of it.

[dark-daventry]

Excuse me, but there is a www.sq7.org in the making, these Fan Guy's are continueing from where Sierra left off, they are just doing a very slow job of it.

I know there is. I found out about it like 2 or 3 years ago... I think it was after tsl... Or before... Can't remember. I was referring in my post to the official SQ7 that Sierra started, but canceled. it had quite an interesting history, and a shame it was cancelled. But these collections bring the possibility of SQ7 becoming an official reality. (I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with fan-games, just that I don't know enough of SQ7 to decide whether I'd like it. The promo movie was good, but I haven't watched it in a while...) These collections also bring the very profitable scenario of an official KQIX. It would be so cool to see two KQIXs! The King's Quest collection was the fourth bestselling PC Game for September 22nd in my neck of the woods.

[daventry]

Does everyone have the KQ, SQ, PQ Games by now, its like this Thread has died out and you finished your Games by now and are bored playing them again.

Im not allowed to buy them Online from Amazon, i hope they come to the Stores.

[dew7]

I would like to see them in the stores here as well --- just to be able to hold the boxes and look over them --- need that tactile connection  ---- LOL

[ciborium]

I bought KQ Monday at GameStop in Cincinnati, Ohio.  I live in Florence, KY, so I had to go about 20 miles to pick it up.  If you locate search on GS's site you have to open up the mileage to about 100 to pick up any of the stores.  I couldn't locate the 3 stores in my zip code without doing that.  Most of the stores did not have any in stock, and the stores that did only had 1-2 copies.  I didn't check about PQ, SQ, and LSL.

[dark-daventry]

Confession time: I never finished playing my games... I'm in the middle of SQ6 and KQ6 but never played the ones before them. I never installed my PQ collection yet for some reason... I'm not very fast with games... Especially adventure games. They take so long, but they are so rewarding!

[ciborium]

I don't know if this is the best place to post this, but here goes.

I just played and finished KQ7 for the first time.

I edited the config file so now the launcher will launch AGDI's KQ1VGA, KQ2VGA, and IA's KQ3VGA.  I hope Sir Bob and Thessilard finish KQ4VGA.  (With KQ5 being my very first adventure game, I find the text parser a little cumbersome.)  Alas, my copies of KQ5 and KQ6 were lost to oblivion after I grew up and left home.  So I bought the collection for legal copies of KQ5 and KQ6 and to play KQ7 for the first time. 

Now to the real reason for my post.  I'm having trouble saving my game in KQ5.  It tells me that the savegame directory is full and when I try to change directories, it says it is invalid.  I have not yet tried with KQ6, and KQ7 worked just fine.  (However, it doesn't run through DosBox.)

As for other series, I played a downloaded copy of PQ1VGA, I enjoyed it okay, but I prefer fantasy/sci-fi.  (Had it been RoboCop Quest, I probably would have played it more.)  I played SQ1VGA and SQ5.  I didn't get past the first puzzle in SQ1 because I didn't know what I was supposed to be doing.  SQ5 I enjoyed and did pretty well, but despite having purchased a legal copy of the game at Best Buy, it came with no manual and therefore did not have the necessary copy protection information so I could repair the computer.

Well, enough of that!  I really only need information on the saving issue.  If you must reply to my SQ rant, then I will probably read it while awaiting the KQ response.   

[dark-daventry]

Alright... The manuals are on the disc. They do not come packaged along with the disc. The disc contains them. You have to open the files. In response to KQ5. I got the same problem, and I cannot fix it. For me it isn't the end of the world. Sierra will probably release a patch for it someday... Anyway, to get the copy-protection things you need, just open up the disc on your computer (The disc folder) and you should be presented with a bunch of files. One of them is the manual. You can print the manuals once opened. I hope this works out for you!

[Yonkey]

Now to the real reason for my post.  I'm having trouble saving my game in KQ5.  It tells me that the savegame directory is full and when I try to change directories, it says it is invalid.  I have not yet tried with KQ6, and KQ7 worked just fine.  (However, it doesn't run through DosBox.)

Well, I don't work for VU but I'm guessing the game is trying to save to the CD rather than the hard disk.   If I were you, I'd contact their Tech Support and tell them about the bug.

[dark-daventry]

I would also suggest that. I am too lazy to do so myself...

[Farquhar]

OMG I really have missed a lot lately! LOL

*Didn't realize the compilations were finally out!*

[dark-daventry]

Well, you have tons of time to order them. The KQ compilation is a bestseller in my neck of the woods, so VG just cancelling production of the compilations seems impossible. Not that anyone suggested that, I'm just saying... Anyway, there's plenty, I'm sure! 

[NathanialRoyale]

Muahaha I found some on Ebay, now I can suck up to my ebay obbessed father to buy it for me for Christmas. That and Kingdom Hearts are all I want for Christmas now, they will keep me entertained for ages 

[MangoMercury]

Someone was supposed to have sent me KQ from Canada, but it never arrived.  I can't buy them on Amazon because they won't ship them here, so I may have to eBay them.  Blaaarg.

[Dangling]

I have the 1997 KQ collection and I haven't had any trouble using the workarounds to get it to run on XP.  This sounds like it is basically the same collection where they tell you where to get stuff to do a workaround and how but all in PDF form and no paper manuals.

[daventry]

Im trying to play any of the KQ Collection Games, but when i click on them, i get kicked back to the Desktop.

I installed the latest Dosbox and KQ7 works, but the rest of them does nothing.

The Police Quest and Space Quest Collection all work fine.

[Shades2585]

I have the old dos collection and they all work fine in DosBox .63 (or something like that.) I never bought the new collection, though they should still work.

[Cazamelia]

I could never get the old dos/win versions to work on XP, but I think it was just me not using dosbox properly. The XP collection mostly runs ok on my comp although KQ6 throws me out onto the desktop occasionally and I had the same problem saving in KQ5 although it did let me change directory and then saved no problem.

Im trying to play any of the KQ Collection Games, but when i click on them, i get kicked back to the Desktop.

I installed the latest Dosbox and KQ7 works, but the rest of them does nothing.

Not sure if this will help, but I read on wiki that they run on dosbox 63-65 but compatabilty for  KQ 1-6 was broken under DosBox 7.0.

[Boogeyman]

They ran pretty well for me in 0.72. The only problems were speech and the KQ6 intro movie.

[daventry]

This is how i installed the Games.

1. Install DOSBox 0.72
2. Install the 3 Sierra Collection Games.
3. Install the patches.
4. Install Multires
5. Install VDMSound

I have XP and i despise Vista.

I thought im buying Games for Windows XP with updates and patches included.