Y'know, I always believed this was a myth made up by parser fans. I never ran into that problem. It doesn't happen often but no, in my case it is not an excuse. It doesn't really matter whether the interface is cursor or parser based to me. Here is an example of a cursor based game being overly pic...

A silly poll indeed, but if you must know: from top to bottom, usually...

Edit with Notepad. Oops, I should have said: "I don't remember what to edit" :lol - BTW: any program that supports editing text files should do... Adeyeke what about using KQ5 Disk resource files with KQ5 CD files? I am not sure, but isn't the bug likely to be in a script which is likely ...

Yea I think Erpy knows that.

I also think he knows it, but I have seen other people on forums go: same ip = same person.

So I figured an IP check wouldn't hurt and I noticed the two were one and the same. If I am right, two posts from different user accounts having the same IP address could mean that posts were made by different people using computers on a local area network. It could also mean that two different peo...

They did remove all the text from the game. It's simply not in the resource files. Otherwise you could have probably hacked the game by editing its Resource.cfg file or removing the files containg the speech. I don't remember what to edit in the Resource.cfg file and I don't know if either hack wou...

Parsers can be frustratingly inflexible, but cursor based interfaces sometimes suffer from similair problems (having to click exactly the right pixel for example.)

Annoying indeed, I don't see why just fixing the bug and updating the game would be that much of a problem, as I understand it there are more bugs that could be fixed. Compiling in itself is not. But we uphold a rather high threshold for new versions of our games, as far as rare or non-fatal bugs go...

I think I agree, the condor part was hard, especially grabbing it's talons??. Also, the beanstalk wasn't very easy to climb, I fell at least once but it isn't as hard as in the original King's Quest I remake. The tunnels in the mountain which lead to cloudland aren't very easy either, I walked off t...

I think I still have my old Sound Blaster 16 card somewhere. They were wikid cards!! I actually removed a Sound Blaster Pro (I think it was a Sound Blaster Pro, it went into a PCI slot) card from an old computer some one in the family gave me with the Sound Blaster 16 card (a gigantic thing that go...

without Win running in the background). And I meant with Windows running in the background, if you don't have Windows running in the background it really doesn't matter what version of Windows you have when running MS-DOS programs does it? As for sound drivers, it could be an issue. Even in '98, so...

Be aware however that with Windows 98, you may have to do some "tweaking" to get the sound to work properly in DOS mode. Most modern sound cards no longer include DOS drivers, so they can be quite difficult to get them to work What version of Windows you have shouldn't matter, if you are ...

Note: edited to prevent further misunderstandings. Which operating system is best? Based on my experiences I would say Microsoft Windows 98 SE. It gives lots of freedom to MS-DOS programs unlike Windows NT/XP. Windows 98 also has less bugs than Windows 95, I noticed that some DOS programs actually r...

Maybe you could get a free hotmail address and use that for signing up only so that you don't have to use your regular address to sign up? That's pretty much what I do.

by the fighters as he tries to escape from GlobalSoft (or whatever they called Microsoft in the game

It was called Scumsoft, I am also no too sure if Scumsoft was a parody of Microsoft...

I am afraid that you are wrong Swift. Valanice blew up about 20 times and the game still wouldn't let me skip. What does the Version file in your KQ7 directory say? My Version file says I have ver. 2.00b. Also after how many times is supposed to let you skip? did you try running it through dosbox? w...

I just don't really care less it's important i was just making a statement that I can I just don't bother.

I think bad English generally makes a bad impression on people...

I suspected and now confirmed that you can use the Internet Movie Database at http://imdb.com/ to search for movies by quote. Any one who knows about the imdb could simply cheat...

QFG? Which version? QFG 4 is known to have several bugs.

And this one?

"Hey, buddy. You got a dead cat in there, or what?"

Guess this one:

[After smacking the alien in the head]
"Welcome to Earth!"

Do you mean the game will skip over the firecracker part after several times? That doesn't seem likely. And there is no possible way to get the grave in time, is there?

I tried it, it doesn't work. When you try again you end up between just after you picked up the firecracker and just before you blow up.

This might be slightly off topic but maybe some one knows this: I was playing Kings Quest 7 for MS-DOS on my 500mhz Pentium III, unlike most of Sierra's SCI games it had very little to no speed related problems :( . There was one speed related problem, one that didn't bother me on my previous comput...

KQ2 VGA is better. I liked it a lot. KQ1 VGA feels more like (or really is?) an update of Sierra's KQ1 remake and I think I remake is even harder to do than an update of the graphics, sound and interface but I could be wrong.