How to get Space Quest to run in Windows XP
All of the Space Quest games run fine in XP. You might find that the text in the early AGI games is unreadable
(some of the newer graphics cards might garble the text in these games.) This problem will occur on Windows
95/98/ME as well. To get around this, the AGI games might need to be run with a third party DOS emulator like
DOSBox or one of the new third party AGI interpreters
such as NAGI or Sarien.
With NAGI you'll hear all three MIDI voices and even have limited mouse support within your AGI games.
Sound:
Most of the DOS Sierra SCI games work fine when run with DOSBox
or VDMSound and the latest
sound drivers from Sierra. SQ VI DOS might have sound problems so you might have to use the Windows
version.
Timer bugs:
Some games still have timer bugs. A fan, NewRisingSun,
has developed script level timer bugs patches several
of the many Sierra timer bugs. These fixes take care of some of the most exasperating bugs in Sierra gaming.
Also, DOSBox can now handle most of Sierra's
DOS games. By playing your game in DOSBox, you can avoid these timer problems.
Misc.
You might have to add a
minhunk=100k
line to your resource.cfg file for some of the DOS Space Quest games.
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