How to Play King's Quest Collection on Modern Systems

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After years of having an itch to play through KQ series again, I was able to get most to work with Steam's DOSBox install for the collection. KQ1-KQ5 mainly. There were color issues and sound problems that really bothered me. I still remember the games as if I played them yesterday. Yesterday being; on my old early 90s Windows 3.1 with 64Mb of RAM, during a time when you had to type "win" to get to Windows, I had less issues.

The issues really start when you want to play KQ6 and KQ7 the way you remembered playing them outside of Dos using Windows for voice acting and HQ videos. Then you have to start setting up a virtualbox, finding an old XP disk and key to install only to run into different issues. Currently KQ7 is still played in DOSBox but there is a fix to allow the videos to play.

How do you figure out how to get around all these issues?
- You don't have to Sierrahelp.com has already made a fix for the game!

How to do this:

Purchase and Install King's Quest Collection on Steam.
Go to http://www.sierrahelp.com/Patches-Updates/Patches-Updates-Games/KingsQuestUpdates.html
Download "King's Quest Collection DOSBox Update (KQCollectionDBUpdate)"
Run the program and point it to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\King's Quest Collection
(optional) Select the directories for DOSBox and ScummVM if you have it installed
Go to the new folders KQ1-KQ7 in your steam folder
Create shortcuts for the programs or launch from those folders.
Press Alt+Enter to go to fullscreen mode.
Donate to Sierrahelp for creating support for such an old game!  Donation link can be found on the bottom of every page on the site listed in step 2 :D
**Note**  Some installations you'll need to copy the new "DOSBox" folder installed in "C:\Program Files (x86)" and paste it into "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\King's Quest Collection" then rename "DOSBox" folder to "dosbox-0.63".

Enjoy!

If this helps comment below! If you have suggestions to the guide you can also comment. I would love to hear them!

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Opprinnelig skrevet av Brian012:

Just wondering if there are still issues with playing KQ 1-7 with a machine running Windows 8.1?

I remember playing KQVI that came with my first IBM PC, back with Windows 3.1. I actually have the cds (somewhere) from the first KQ Collection, which had games 1-6, KQ VII was not in that first collection of KQ games.

If this Steam release of KQ 1-7 is still not working right without patches and stuff, are the instructions for Windows 8.1 different than the instructions for Windows 7?

Thanks in advance!

Don't need any patches for modern OS if you use scummvm to run the game

https://www.scummvm.org/downloads/

Just install scummvm and add the games