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Pony Talk => Off Topic => Topic started by: Majesty on July 25, 2017, 10:30:46 AM
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I bought an old PC game but it won't run on my new laptop. It's King's Quest 7: The Princeless Bride. I've played this game before a long time ago but it got stolen and recently I decided I wanted to play it again. I think this was for Windows 95 or something like that.
I read that if it doesn't play (the game) you could download an emulator and it'll work. I don't want any viruses and I want a guarantee it'll work and I don't want to pay for it.
If someone has any recommendations please let me know.
Thanks in advance.
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DOSBox (http://www.dosbox.com/) and Scummvm (https://www.scummvm.org/) are both free emulators that should be able to play the game. I'd recommend trying Scummvm first as it should be able to play the windows version (plus I generally prefer it anyway) while DOSBox requires using the DOS version of the game.
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DOSBox (http://www.dosbox.com/) and Scummvm (https://www.scummvm.org/) are both free emulators that should be able to play the game. I'd recommend trying Scummvm first as it should be able to play the windows version (plus I generally prefer it anyway) while DOSBox requires using the DOS version of the game.
I second Scummvm! I use it to play Humongous Entertainment games.
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I downloaded DOSBox before I saw this message but I'll try the other one. I checked around and my game isn't listed as a DOS game. But, I found someone on youtube who uses a CD for an older game and uses the codes to make it work and I tried it step by step for a little but but after a while it got too confusing.
This is frustrating, because I want to play it but I figured I'd just let my brother do it for me next time I see him which probably won't be for a while.
From what I've been told the codes trick your new laptop into thinking it's an older computer so your game will work. I didn't realize it would be so complicated to play it. I probably wouldn't have bothered. The game was made by Sierra Online but it's an actual game not an online game.
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The earliest releases of the game didn't include a DOS version. There are some patches here that will allow you to upgrade the 1.4+ versions to the 2.00b version which can be played in DOSBox: http://sierrahelp.com/Patches-Updates/Patches-Updates-Games/KingsQuestUpdates.html (http://sierrahelp.com/Patches-Updates/Patches-Updates-Games/KingsQuestUpdates.html) but if you have the earliest 1.1 release I'm not sure if any of those patches will be helpful (that's actually the version I have the disc for but I've since gotten the updated version online). I don't think I've tried my 1.1 version in ScummVM but it's a pretty easy emulator to use - much better than trying to use codes yourself.
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The earliest releases of the game didn't include a DOS version. There are some patches here that will allow you to upgrade the 1.4+ versions to the 2.00b version which can be played in DOSBox: http://sierrahelp.com/Patches-Updates/Patches-Updates-Games/KingsQuestUpdates.html (http://sierrahelp.com/Patches-Updates/Patches-Updates-Games/KingsQuestUpdates.html) but if you have the earliest 1.1 release I'm not sure if any of those patches will be helpful (that's actually the version I have the disc for but I've since gotten the updated version online). I don't think I've tried my 1.1 version in ScummVM but it's a pretty easy emulator to use - much better than trying to use codes yourself.
Thanks for your help I'll look into it later when I get out of work. :)