DOS Games Discussion

cyb3r.god3 · Way too much free time Joined: 27 Jul 2005 Posts: 549

their stupidity and laziness astounds me. releasing an "updated" version of the Kings Quest collection to run on XP. BULL!!!!! they realeased the games with dosbox instead of doing the better and actually updating the games. im just really angry about this and i feel sorry for anyone who bought the set and still had the original KQ collection.

dosraider · Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:30 am Post subject:

Old 'news', but still funny.
They are greedy@sierra.
But they own the right of those games, so it's fully legal what they do.
They only 'forgot' to include some files with dosbox, but later they corrected that when the dosbox devs protested and included those.
You may include dosbox, but only with all files.

In fact they were pirating dosbox ..... Laughing

486 player · Gaming Demi-god Joined: 18 Sep 2002 Posts: 1017

That's the way it must be done. 'Updatin'' graphics (or changin' to work in newer systems, not patches) is the wrong way. when there's a emulator there. They only neede to add text "These are the original releases. You will need the DOSBOX (link) emulator to play these games in Windows XP/Vista."

cyb3r.god3 · Way too much free time Joined: 27 Jul 2005 Posts: 549

dosraider · Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 6:02 am Post subject:

cyb3r.god3 · Way too much free time Joined: 27 Jul 2005 Posts: 549

fair enough but they couldve somehow integrated it into the program itself so that itll run in a window for newer hardware rather than just pack the game with dosbox

dosraider · Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 8:59 am Post subject:

cyb3r.god3 · Way too much free time Joined: 27 Jul 2005 Posts: 549

but therre are 2 separate versions, windows and dos on the original KQC the windows version using no dos whatsoever as few as i can tell
EDIT: internet died didnt finish

if sierra made a separate KQ for old windows why not try and develop one now

dosraider · Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 11:09 am Post subject:

cyb3r.god3 · Way too much free time Joined: 27 Jul 2005 Posts: 549

thats 1 and 3, i know that 1 and 3 had some form of remake to run on XP but what about the others, 2, 4 5 and 6. those articles indicate that the games were updated in graphics and all that to look like 5 and 6. but 1 and 3 run on XP. these remakes were not done by seirra. im stewing about the fact that if these "Anonymous game developers" took the time to create these game that are available for free why didnt sierra remake it themselves and they would at least get some money out of it

dosraider · Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 3:42 am Post subject:

Point-click seems to be a dying genre.
Must be that Siera thought they wouldn't make enough money would they make remakes.

As a major part of the money making those days in the gaming sector is on the console side, it's a bit understandable. The greatest hits are on the FPS platform. And honestly, a Wii-PS3-Xbox isn't really suited for point-click gaming.

cyb3r.god3 · Way too much free time Joined: 27 Jul 2005 Posts: 549

well, Wii seems to be pretty decent, considering you would only need a cursor and the A or B button. but GARRR im annoyed, im going to try find a way to make it run on XP soley because if already done IT homework for the year or semester at least