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The Official Book of Kings Quest (1988)


- Mike

Do you know if this is a first edition/printing?

Omni wrote:

cpages2 wrote:Here are some more new items:


The Official Book of Kings Quest (1988)


- Mike

Do you know if this is a first edition/printing?

I do believe it is, or that is what I was told. Why do you ask?

- Mike

A few people over at http://sciprogramming.com/community/ind ... opic=372.0 are looking for someone with a First Edition First Printing of this book to see if it contains SCI code examples or AGI.

Some believe that the first printing of the first edition contains SCI while later editions contain AGI due to a lawsuit.

Omni wrote:A few people over at http://sciprogramming.com/community/ind ... opic=372.0 are looking for someone with a First Edition First Printing of this book to see if it contains SCI code examples or AGI.

Some believe that the first printing of the first edition contains SCI while later editions contain AGI due to a lawsuit.

Let me know if I can help at all, I can snap some pictures of the book if needed.

- Mike

Well, if you can just scan the page with the code and post it here we could determine if it is AGI or SCI code.

Omni wrote:A few people over at http://sciprogramming.com/community/ind ... opic=372.0 are looking for someone with a First Edition First Printing of this book to see if it contains SCI code examples or AGI.

Some believe that the first printing of the first edition contains SCI while later editions contain AGI due to a lawsuit.

While digging up my BLUE FORCE box; I pulled out my first printing of The Official Book of King's Quest: Daventry and Beyond and can verify it does have some samples of code. Only three small samples. Will hook up my scanner and get it scanned a little later.

Tawmis wrote:

Omni wrote:A few people over at http://sciprogramming.com/community/ind ... opic=372.0 are looking for someone with a First Edition First Printing of this book to see if it contains SCI code examples or AGI.
Some believe that the first printing of the first edition contains SCI while later editions contain AGI due to a lawsuit.

While digging up my BLUE FORCE box; I pulled out my first printing of The Official Book of King's Quest: Daventry and Beyond and can verify it does have some samples of code. Only three small samples. Will hook up my scanner and get it scanned a little later.

Appears to be SCI coding.

It's not much but that's all the coding within the book. Feel free to pass it on and post it on that forum, as I am not a member on the forum and don't want to be bothered with signing up.

That's interesting. I wonder what the tempy stands for in the coding. Anyone know?

QuestCollector wrote:That's interesting. I wonder what the tempy stands for in the coding. Anyone know?

It has to do with the y-coordinate - presumably a 'temporary' variable. If you look in the second screenshot, 'tempx' is also referenced.

The way to verify whether this is a first printing is to look at the page with the publishers details on it. Below the ISBN you will see the text "Printed in the United States of America". Immediately below that is the printing number. For example:

10 9 8 7 6 5 4

If it appeared as the above then it would be the fourth printing. If, however, it appears as follows:

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

...then it is a first printing.

Are you able to confirm from the above that this copy of the book is a first printing? Better yet maybe attach a scan of the copyright/publisher page.

The scans attached so far unfortunately show AGI code. SCI code looks quite a bit different from this. For starters there will be no curly braces {} and no semi-colons. Instead there will be a lot of standard () braces. The syntax of SCI code is LISP-like. As a comparison, the code shown in the above images would say something like:

position(smoke, 95 16);

The SCI equivalent would be more like this:

(smoke position: 95 16)

Hi Lance. Welcome to SHP. I have moved you over to the regular members so you don't have to wait for your posts to be approved. The probationary membership is a spambot filter.

lance.ewing wrote:The way to verify whether this is a first printing is to look at the page with the publishers details on it. Below the ISBN you will see the text "Printed in the United States of America". Immediately below that is the printing number. For example:

10 9 8 7 6 5 4

If it appeared as the above then it would be the fourth printing. If, however, it appears as follows:

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

...then it is a first printing.

Are you able to confirm from the above that this copy of the book is a first printing? Better yet maybe attach a scan of the copyright/publisher page.

It is indeed first edition. When I get home, I will be happy to scan it to verify it. But I am 99.999999999999999% certain it's first edition.

Tawmis wrote:It is indeed first edition. When I get home, I will be happy to scan it to verify it. But I am 99.999999999999999% certain it's first edition.

Thanks. That would be really great.

To clarify something from my post above, both of the examples I have given are first editions. Where they differ is in the printing number. One is a first edition, fourth printing. The other is a first edition, first printing. I assume you meant that you're 99.99% certain it's a first printing rather than first edition?

lance.ewing wrote: I assume you meant that you're 99.99% certain it's a first printing rather than first edition?

Aye. Will dig it up a little later today. (Requires digging it back out from a mess of stuff again).

As soon as I get home I will also check mine.