Non-Sierra Installers and Patches

[TarkinMX]

Did you check spacequest.net? As to spiffythedog's SQ1VGA fixes, the link to his patcher still works. Just use that.

I appreciate it. I just thought I would ask because I like the patchers that you make. On the homepage for sierrahelp when a user clicks on "SHP Non-Sierra Installers and Patches", it leads to the first page of this post with all your patchers. If I knew how you make them then I would help out and do them for you if needed so they can be added to the collection and people could easily find them.

From what I found (and going off based what Collector said)...:
https://spacequest.net/sq4/patches/
Which for NewRisingSun leads to: https://spacequest.net/downloads/mpc12.zip

This is the one I found too, it's not the latest version he made for some reason. Someone over on vogons was kind enough to hook me up with the 1.3 patch so I have it now. I posted over there at the same time I posted here.

What are the SQ4 patches for? *curious* I was never able to beat the game - I was always stuck in the bit near the end, where I tried (and failed) to get past the patrolling sphere that shoots me on those bridge platforms.

From the patch notes:

1.0 Original Sierra On-Line release.

1.1 - Inserted floppy-version graphics whenever they looked better.
- Changed "Hz So Good" back into Radio Shock, because looking at the store sign still makes the narrator speech say "Radio Shack - A Dandy store".
- Fixed hideEgoInStore script.
- Fixed all "timer bugs".
- Fixed sewer slime not following when leaving the screen too quickly.
- Fixed incorrect rhythm channel flags in sound resources.
- Added "both" (Text+Speech) option.
- Added debug mode.
- Added option to play MT-32-recorded sfx through MT-32.
- Lasers firing at sea slug tentacle now create sound.
- The time pod sequence can now be skipped.
- Synchronized patrol ship sequence to music.

1.1a - Fixed a palette problem with the Droid-O-Death.

1.2 - Added script for "removed items" room.
- Readded removed Radio Shock products (sorry, no speech for them).
- Added priority information to sound resources --- no more popping
sounds from the MT-32 (due to reverb change) whenever a sound effect
plays.
- Added removed "Stunt Flyer" and "Dacron Danny" bargain bin games.
- Orbs now create sound during captiveScript sequence.
- Removed volume change during speech output. If the music is too
loud, change the volume in the control panel.
- Fixed scrolling in video driver.

1.3 - Removed one-second delay after each speech line.
- Added 2xOPL2/OPL3 support to ADL.DRV.
- Fixed Oops! message during mall police chase

[Aroenai]

Since no one at Vogons seems to care about information getting lost from NewRisingSun's tantrum...

http://archive.is/XkMcX - Space Quest IV

http://archive.is/69Wbb - King's Quest IV

http://archive.is/5c5Xq - King's Quest VII firecracker

[TarkinMX]

Since no one at Vogons seems to care about information getting lost from NewRisingSun's tantrum...

@Aroenai, thank you for the post. Although I don't know what NewRisingSun's tantrum was all about, I do appreciate you sharing this post with the interest of preservation. I had found it rather disappointing that he would go to the lengths of taking everything down due to said tantrum and hindering the community of his great work. It's good to see that his work is still attainable in some form.

[Rath Darkblade]

Hi Collector, I know it's been a long (long) time since you created the Discworld Noir installer ... but ... would you please mind taking a look at it again? (Pretty please?)

I tried installing (a full install) and running DWN with it (I still have the original CDs - and they still work after all this time!), and I tried using your installer. It took my game into a small window, and started fine. No problem so far.

I started a new game, went into Lewton's office, and saved in the office (save #1). I went to the map and saved (save #2). Then I went to the docks and saved (save #3).

Then I quit back to Windows (running Win7) and tried playing again. It opened without a hitch ... but it wouldn't let me load my save. Instead, the game froze, told me that "TIN_DXD.EXE has failed", and crashed back to Windows.

Any idea what's wrong?

[JohnnyPhantom]

Hey Collector, if you're still taking requests for game installers, I'd love one for the Ripper, it's DOS compatible and it's a game I never got to play when it came out, I have the discs now, and it has Christopher Walken goodness, if you need the files for the game let me know

https://www.myabandonware.com/game/ripper-de6

Thanks buddy!

[MusicallyInspired]

Collector, I've been playing Outlaws with my original CDs and used your installer and it's all patched up and everything works great, except that when I get to the Sawmill level it says "Unable to load level" and dumps back to the main menu. I've checked elsewhere online and it seems that this is where the second CD would need to be inserted to continue playing the game. It seems that all the files from CD2 have been copied to the Outlaws subdirectory inside the game folder, but the game still won't continue. Any ideas on what I could do? How did you get the game to not look for the first CD when playing the first few levels?

[thesentrylovesretro]

Hey collector,
How did you make these installers? i am trying to make one of my own for Boffo Games' The Space Bar

[Collector]

NSIS

[thesentrylovesretro]

ok, but how do you get it to check disk and pull from disk?

[Collector]

The NSIS Wiki has everything you need to do what you need. Just use the Wiki's search function.

[EricOakford]

I have figured out how to run the newer Windows version (which I now call the 2002 version) of QFG4 1/2 in DOSBox. It requires AGS 2.31 (the final version with a DOS editor), whose DOS runtime (ACDOS.EXE) can be pointed to the game's executable. Since the earlier DOS version (now called the 2001 version) of the game is less polished, using the newer version is generally preferred, now that I found a way to get that running in DOS (making it more portable and less prone to compatibility issues).

That whole set-up can be done in the meantime while I do work on adapting the game for SCI.