KQ6 Win 3.1

[LiK]

Does anyone know how to run King's Quest 6 (Win 3.1 CD) on Win2k? Any help is appreciated.

[remixor]

I have been trying for ages with this exact problem, LiK. I had a substantial thread going on these forums about it. Here's a link to the DOSBox forums. A guy there apparently got it working using DOSBox, so I'm asking him how he did it, and I'm waiting for his reply.

http://vogons.zetafleet.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=23415#post23415

If you don't have DOSBox (it emulates old PC DOS machines so you can play old games on new systems), go to http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/information.php?page=0

[LiK]

I have been trying for ages with this exact problem, LiK. I had a substantial thread going on these forums about it. Here's a link to the DOSBox forums. A guy there apparently got it working using DOSBox, so I'm asking him how he did it, and I'm waiting for his reply.

http://vogons.zetafleet.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=23415#post23415

If you don't have DOSBox (it emulates old PC DOS machines so you can play old games on new systems), go to http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/information.php?page=0

cool,. i'll check it out :)

i really wanna replay this game, it was the FIRST adventure game i ever played so i have some fond memories of it.

[LiK]

hmmm, i just checked it, but even the program uses DOS to run, i'm somewhat clueless to using DOS. Any idea on what command I should put in there to run the game from the CD Drive?

[Kode]

Oh you modern people. :P

[remixor]

Install DOSBox, then type the following at the command prompt:

mount c c:\

This will tell the program to mount your C drive. If c isn't your main drive you can use a different one.

Then type the following:

mount d d:\ -t cdrom

This, similarly, will tell the program to mount your D drive as a cdrom drive. If d isnt' your cdrom drive letter, use whichever yours is.

From there, use normal DOS commands. For example, to get into your Sierra directory, you will most likely type the following in order, assuming you installed to the default directories:

c: [this will switch to the C drive]
cd sierra [this will change directory--hence cd--to c:\sierra]
cd kq6cd [this will change directory to c:\sierra\kq6cd]

Then you can just type "kq6cd" (without the quotes) to run the game, but I encountered memory problems at this point, which is what I'm currently trying to solve.

Also, bear in mind that if you don't have the CD version, it won't install to "kq6cd", obviously it will install somewhere else. Simply substitute the name of your directory and it should work.

[LiK]

Install DOSBox, then type the following at the command prompt:

mount c c:\

This will tell the program to mount your C drive. If c isn't your main drive you can use a different one.

Then type the following:

mount d d:\ -t cdrom

This, similarly, will tell the program to mount your D drive as a cdrom drive. If d isnt' your cdrom drive letter, use whichever yours is.

From there, use normal DOS commands. For example, to get into your Sierra directory, you will most likely type the following in order, assuming you installed to the default directories:

c: [this will switch to the C drive]
cd sierra [this will change directory--hence cd--to c:\sierra]
cd kq6cd [this will change directory to c:\sierra\kq6cd]

Then you can just type "kq6cd" (without the quotes) to run the game, but I encountered memory problems at this point, which is what I'm currently trying to solve.

Also, bear in mind that if you don't have the CD version, it won't install to "kq6cd", obviously it will install somewhere else. Simply substitute the name of your directory and it should work.

kool, thanks, i'll check it out

[VoodooFX]

i was going to write about how you could go and install program called VirtualPC, where you could install win3.11 and try to play it from there, but since you find it hard dealing with DOS, this is out of the question.

[Val'Gahk]

Does anyone know how to run King's Quest 6 (Win 3.1 CD) on Win2k? Any help is appreciated.

Here are useful tools to run old games:

http://ntvdm.cjb.net (VDMSound)
-Will emulate an environement with a sound card and VESA drivers.

http://www.angelfire.com/realm/zeroone (Abandon Loader)
-Easy tool to use with VDMSound to launch games more easily.

http://www.scummvm.org (ScummVM)
-A 'virtual machine' to play LucasArts SCUMM based games.

[mycroft]

hmmm, i just checked it, but even the program uses DOS to run, i'm somewhat clueless to using DOS. Any idea on what command I should put in there to run the game from the CD Drive?


the easiest way is to drag and drop the executable file into the dosbox terminal window...dosbox will then mount the drive accordingly...

[ClémentXVII]

Funny thing is... it runs fine on Linux using Wine ;-)