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Hello.

To collector: THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for your 2006-collection DOSBox updates. I have finally gotten KQ7 to run in DOSBox. (I have a Mac, so I don't want to use the Windows version anyway. I do have XP in VMware Fusion, so I used that to install the software, then your update, then copied the result back to the Mac, to run in DOSBox.)

Now, my SQ collection must be the 1997 one. I don't see any DOSBox updater for that, so, my question: does the 1997 collection need any updates to run properly in DOSBox? I've played SQ2 and am working through SQ3, and haven't had any problems, but if there are any issues then I'd rather just get the fixes installed.

My versions are:
sq1vga/VERSION: 2.000
sq3/VERSION: 1.018
sq4/VERSION: 1.0
sq5/VERSION: 1.04
SQ6DOS/VERSION: 1.11

Interesting that my SQ2 does not have a VERSION file.

Again, THANK YOU SO MUCH for fixing this stuff.

You are welcome. The patches include all relevant updates. Nothing further needs to be done.

I haven't applied any patches to the SQ install... only to the KQ install. So, OK, I'll go get all of the patches for the KQ games and will install those, and that should leave me in a good place. Gotcha.

If these are the 2006 collections, the DOSBox patches are the only patches you need to apply.

My KQ one is the 2006 version, but my SQ one is the 1997 version. I saw in another thread that there is no installer because you don't own that version yet.

I'm guessing that all I need to do for the 1997 one is to apply the various SQ patches (fortunatley for me, these are all ZIP files and not EXEs).

I have to wait until I can get a copy of that collection before I can write an installer for it. I assume that you are talking about the updates for the SQ series here. Even though Sierra originally packed them into self extracting executables, I unpacked them and re-zipped them to make them easier to handle. You can also see inside of them without unzipping them, since Windows will treat them like folders. The executables were only 16-bit, which of course won't run on 64-bit systems.