18 Apr
2002
18 Apr
'02
9:59 a.m.
Would someone who has the PCjr King's Quest disks tell me which files are
on which disk? (Or, if it's just one disk, what files are on it?)
I really want to get this working! :-)
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18 Apr
18 Apr
3:09 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Cameron Kaiser once stated:
Would someone who has the PCjr King's Quest disks tell me which files are
on which disk? (Or, if it's just one disk, what files are on it?)
If I remember correctly, for the orginal King's Quest for the PCjr, it was
a single floppy that you booted from---it didn't have MS-DOS and it took
over the machine entirely.
I do seem to recall that the later games (King's Quest and the early Space
Quest) were regular MS-DOS files but I don't recall the file structure (nor
do I have any copies of the games in question).
-spc (Remembers playing King's Quest (the original) on the PCjr)
6:56 p.m.
I do seem to recall that the later games (King's
Quest and the early Space
Quest) were regular MS-DOS files but I don't recall the file structure (nor
do I have any copies of the games in question).
It's been a long time since I played any of them but most of
the Sierra games of the period used passages in the manuals and such
as copy protection. They'd let you get somewhat into the game and
then spring something on you that required you to look it up in the
manual or some other item that was included with the game. I still
have a great many original Sierra games but few of the docs to run
them. One cool thing though is that Sierra's 10th anniversary catalog
from 1989, which I got with 'Leisure Suit Larry
III', has a smallish
picture of the Apple I with thier 'Mystery House'
game on the cover.
Jeff
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7:40 p.m.
> Would someone who has the PCjr King's Quest
disks tell me which files are
> on which disk? (Or, if it's just one disk, what files are on it?)
If I remember correctly, for the orginal King's
Quest for the PCjr, it was
a single floppy that you booted from---it didn't have MS-DOS and it took
over the machine entirely.
Nuts. I have King's Quest in a later incarnation that *does* still have PCjr
support (apparently) but it all won't fit on a 360K floppy, which led to
my earlier question about HD drives in jrs.
I wonder if there's a way to get an image of that disk ...
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1:06 p.m.
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Jeez, Cam, you keep coming up with requests that I can fill but just don't
have time for :)
If I remember the next time I'm at my warehouse, I'll check my PC software
boxes and see if it turns up without too much fuss. I could swear I just
boxed an original copy of King's Quest for the PCjr a few weeks ago.
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> Would
someone who has the PCjr King's Quest disks tell me which files are
> on which disk? (Or, if it's just one disk, what files are on it?)
If I remember correctly, for the orginal
King's Quest for the PCjr, it was
a single floppy that you booted from---it didn't have MS-DOS and it took
over the machine entirely.
Nuts. I have King's Quest in a later incarnation that *does* still have PCjr
support (apparently) but it all won't fit on a 360K floppy, which led to
my earlier question about HD drives in jrs.
I wonder if there's a way to get an image of that disk ...
11:20 p.m.
Nuts. I have
King's Quest in a later incarnation that *does* still have PCjr
support (apparently) but it all won't fit on a 360K floppy, which led to
my earlier question about HD drives in jrs.
I wonder if there's a way to get an image of that disk ...
Jeez, Cam, you keep coming up with requests that I can fill but just don't
have time for :)
If I remember the next time I'm at my warehouse, I'll check my PC software
boxes and see if it turns up without too much fuss. I could swear I just
boxed an original copy of King's Quest for the PCjr a few weeks ago.
11:21 p.m.
Whoops, that was meant for private mail. Grrr.
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8:45 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Cameron Kaiser once stated:
I have a copy of the original King's Quest for the PCjr (in the original
box no less) but I have no idea where it is right now as I'm still in the
process of moving and unpacking (insane condo commandos but that's a rant
for another time).
-spc (And I don't recall if it's copy protected or not ... )
> Would someone who has the PCjr King's
Quest disks tell me which files are
> on which disk? (Or, if it's just one disk, what files are on it?)
If I remember correctly, for the orginal
King's Quest for the PCjr, it was
a single floppy that you booted from---it didn't have MS-DOS and it took
over the machine entirely.
Nuts. I have King's Quest in a later incarnation that *does* still have PCjr
support (apparently) but it all won't fit on a 360K floppy, which led to
my earlier question about HD drives in jrs.
I wonder if there's a way to get an image of that disk ...
7:35 p.m.
Would someone who has the PCjr King's Quest disks
tell me which files are
on which disk? (Or, if it's just one disk, what files are on it?)
Here's the 3.5" disk version of King's Quest from 1987, which
still supported the PCjr graphics. The disk is a 720k DD disk. When
it is installed to a hard disk and then run, it asks for the original
disks for verification.
Volume in drive A is KQ1 DISK 1
Directory of A:\
INSTALLH BAT 1,247 12-01-87 12:19p
_INSTALL BAT 764 12-03-87 8:46a
SIERRA COM 3,121 12-01-87 12:20p
AGI 39,424 12-01-87 12:20p
AGIDATA OVL 8,192 12-01-87 8:49a
CGA_GRAF OVL 1,024 12-01-87 8:48a
JR_GRAF OVL 512 12-01-87 8:48a
EGA_GRAF OVL 1,024 12-01-87 8:48a
HGC_GRAF OVL 1,536 12-01-87 8:48a
VG_GRAF OVL 512 12-01-87 8:48a
IBM_OBJS OVL 512 12-01-87 8:48a
HGC_OBJS OVL 1,024 12-01-87 8:48a
MAKEPATH COM 74 04-22-87 12:05p
HGC_FONT 3,072 01-26-87 3:47p
_KQ1 BAT 39 04-07-87 2:04p
OBJECT 331 04-09-87 11:45p
WORDS TOK 3,144 03-27-87 11:15a
LOGDIR 315 05-05-87 9:02a
PICDIR 255 05-05-87 9:02a
SNDDIR 144 05-05-87 9:02a
VIEWDIR 432 05-05-87 9:02a
VOL 0 48,472 05-05-87 9:01a
VOL 1 200,630 05-05-87 9:01a
VOL 2 90,891 05-05-87 9:02a
KQ101078 QA 12 01-01-80 12:50a
KQ1SG 1 2,872 06-27-89 11:59a
26 file(s) 409,575 bytes
290,816 bytes free
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11:26 p.m.
Would someone
who has the PCjr King's Quest disks tell me which files are
on which disk? (Or, if it's just one disk, what files are on it?)
Here's the 3.5" disk version of King's Quest from 1987, which
still supported the PCjr graphics. The disk is a 720k DD disk. When
it is installed to a hard disk and then run, it asks for the original
disks for verification.
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