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Sierra On-Line's History To Be Told In New Documentary, Legends Of Adventure

Time Extension about 2 days ago

"Sierra On-Line's story is an amazing one, and it deserves to be told".Sierra On-Line co-founder Ken Williams has revealed that a new documentary is being produced that will chart the history of the famous company, which gave us titles like King’s Quest, …
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Anniversary: The King's Quest Series Is Now 40 Years Old

Time Extension about 9 days ago

That's according to its creators.Sierra's classic adventure series King's Quest has officially turned 40, according to its creators Roberta and Ken Williams.The series that primarily focused on the adventures of King Graham and his family in the land of Da …

Point and Click Adventure Games from the late 90's

VCFed about 3 months ago

I remember fondly several from this erra and early 2000's. SIERRA had many, kings quest, space quest, leisure suit Larry to name some. Lucas Arts, Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island and more Cinemaware, Rocket Ranger, Wings, it came from the desert, more The L …
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Colossal Cave Is Getting A Physical Release For PS5, PS4, PC, & Switch

Time Extension about 4 months ago

Pre-orders are open now!Roberta Williams' modern reimagining of William Crowthers' 1976 text adventure Colossal Cave is getting a physical release for PS4, PS5, PC, and Nintendo Switch, courtesy of Limited Run Games.The game, which was released digitally l …

Need new inner big box for Sierra game

VCFed about 4 months ago

Hello everypony! Quick odd one, A while back I bought a rare copy of Silpheed, the special edition with the IBM PS/1 sound modes. Anyways, it came with everything except the inner box. Like, the sleeve is here, but the inner generic Sierra box is just stra …
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Review: Delphine Software Collection 1 - A Meagre Selection, But Hey, It Has Flashback

Time Extension about 5 months ago

Out of this World, man.Mention the name Delphine Software to gamers of a certain age, and you'll almost certainly get some excited chatter about titles like Another World and Flashback, two of the finest cinematic platformers ever made. However, while thos …

IBM PC, PCXT, Tandy 1000 • Tandy sound on Space Quest and odd CGA colors

MISTerFPGA about 5 months ago

Hi, I'm having a heck of a time getting Space Quest to run in Tandy mode on the pcxt core.In the pcxt mode with pcxt31.rom, I can load up my ao486 vhd to access the game directory. The colors are not correct in CGA (they show up as orange, green, etc.) My …
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Games Competitions • Games Competition 2023 - Round 11 - Cast Your Votes!!!

Lemon64 about 6 months ago

This vote is for the game we will play in Round 11 (November). The voting starts now and ends 23:59 GMT Saturday, November 18th Vote for 5 games. Votes with less than 5 games will not be counted. Votes with a game on the list below will not be counted. R …
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Retro Rewind: October 1983 in Computer & Video Games

Retro Arcadia about 7 months ago

After a bit of an experiment with the pilot episode of this feature back in August 2023, it seems like I’m not the only one who likes having a look back at old copies of magazines from forty years ago, and while I’m still not quite ready to go monthly …

Writing PC booter img files

VCFed about 8 months ago

I've done this before but for the life of me I can't remember how. I want to write an image of a PC booter of a Sierra game to actual disk. I tried with dskimage, with a real 360 k drive. I think the format was something like dskimage this disk.img 0:40 …
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Games Competitions • Games Competition 2023 - Round 09 - Cast Your Votes!!!

Lemon64 about 8 months ago

This vote is for the game we will play in Round 08 (June). The voting starts now and ends 23:59 GMT Saturday, August 12th Vote for 5 games. Votes with less than 5 games will not be counted. Votes with a game on the list below will not be counted. Remembe …

ao486 (PC 486SX) • ISO CD do not work

MISTerFPGA about 9 months ago

I can't get any games to play on iso format CDs. When I try to read directory D: I get the message: "CDR103: CDROM not High Sierra or ISO-9660 format reading drive DAbort Retry Fail?"I have successfully installed the OAKCDROM.SYS driver and the BIN/QUE cd …
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Games Competitions • Games Competition 2023 - Round 08 - Cast Your Votes!!!

Lemon64 about 10 months ago

This vote is for the game we will play in Round 08 (June). The voting starts now and ends 23:59 GMT Saturday, August 12th Vote for 5 games. Votes with less than 5 games will not be counted. Votes with a game on the list below will not be counted. Remembe …
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Software • Sierra SCI Games (KQVI \ QFG1 \ SQV) sluggish animation at 1600x1200

Vogons about 10 months ago

Hi all,I have a PC (P-M 2Ghz\855GM), which can output 1600x1200 via it's BIOS setting (Dual output LVDS+VGA).Most games run perfectly fine, but I'm having some performance issues with some Sierra games based on SCI engine (still perfectly playable, just c …

Sound • MPU-401/MT-32 + SB16 problems with some games

Vogons about 10 months ago

Hi guys,I have a MPU IPC-T unit with its card installed in a machine that also has an SB16 ASP. The MPU unit feeds to an MT-32 rev.0.I want all MIDI in DOS to use the MPU, so I have the jumpers on the cards as follows:MPU IPC-T:IRQ 2/9, Port 330SB16:Port …

Sound • Help needed with MIDI / MT-32 for DOS

Vogons about 10 months ago

Good people, I'm sure this topic has been already covered many times but there's so many posts, different HW mentioned, and some conflicting info that I decided to ask this again.What I want: MIDI output in DOS on 286/386/486 class HW - think Sierra adven …

The Telwynium - A Sierra inspired adventure trilogy that's worth checking out (Win/Linux/Mac)

Indie Retro News about 11 months ago

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Printing Over the Network - Snow Leopard to Monterey

68Kmla about 11 months ago

From a Mac with Mac OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard), I used to be able to print over the internal network to printers connected to a Mac running either Sierra or High Sierra (I don't remember which). Since the (High?) Sierra Mac was upgraded to Monterey, netwo …

Geo's Quest Update

EAB about 11 months ago

Hello Friends Just wanted to give an update on the Geo's Quest series. First I wanted to say thanks very much to Amiga Future for their review of "In Search of Queen Lorraine" Thanks for the feedback so far on GQ2 - 2 of the most common sugge …

Take him to DETROIT! Amigos: Everything Amiga 352

Amigos: Everything Amiga about 2 years ago

Take the helm of a fledgling auto-producing company in the early 20th century in this unique sim published by Sierra! ? Support our wacky, weekly Amiga podcast! https://www.patreo... LIVE Fridays at 5:00 Eastern on https://twitch.tv …

You're invited to the Castle of Dr. Brain! Amigos: Everything Amiga 306

Amigos: Everything Amiga about 3 years ago

The Castle of Dr. Brain is a unique puzzle game published by Sierra for the Amiga in 1992. Are you up for some brain bending fun? ? Support Boat and Aaron  Your Patreon support helps us continue to produce Amigos every week! https://www.patreon.com/a …

Episode 24 - Party Like It's Christmas 1985! + Battle Of The Mascots - Bonk vs. Alex Kidd

Pixel Gaiden Gaming Podcast about 4 years ago

We're back for Episode 24 In this episode Cody and Eric catch up on the news and compare Mascots Bonk and Alex Kidd! We are doing news for the first monthly episode and then "catching up" later in the month. Plus Tea Time With Tim - Christmas 1985!   Epi …