https://youtu.be/bqZps5-8fCg?si=poeKbH7lpM7jm4Zo

This was a great learning experience for me and Julia was a wonderful guest who has crafted a very charming release. "The Crimson Diamond" is a mystery-adventure principally inspired by Sierra's Laura Bow series. I strongly recommend checking it out!

I did a fresh install of dos 6.22 just an hour ago and installed the same sbpro drivers and it worked. Now I did another fresh format and install and did the same sb pro installation and now this pops up. Why?? I did nothing different!!

One of my regrets regarding It Takes Two to Tangle is not using making the castle seen in the background of the screen with the harp in King's Quest VII be Oberon and Titania's castle. It never really clicked with me that this had to be *the* castle that Rosella saw in the intro. Unfortunately, the wide shots of this castle are very hard to make out, given the size of the available concept art sketches. Even an AI Upscaler could only do so much. Still, I was so fascinated by this castle that I decided to trace over and color the most detailed sketch I could find to the best of my ability (keeping the waterfalls, because why not).

Original

My interpretation of the original

I'm jonesing for a good adventure game, but I've already played and beaten what I consider the big hits. Any suggestions? For clarity, here's what I've already beaten:

King's Quest Series

Space Quest Series

Quest for Glory Series

Leisure Suit Larry Series

Freddy Pharkas

Gold Rush

Gabriel Knight I & II

Eco Quest Series

Conquests of the Grail and Longbow

Castle and Island of Dr. Brain

Laura Bow Series

Phantasmagoria Series

Torin's Passage

Edited to reflect that I played entire series, not just the first ones of each.

We’re moving house at the moment and came across a stash of games. Spent hours playing all of these. Hours and hours.

Spoilers obviously for a 35 year old computer game, but I got Colonels Bequest for the first time Christmas 1997 in the Kings Quest Collection release. I grew up on Kings Quest, but never heard of this Laura Bow before, and I loved the atmosphere it presented. Eventually, I came to find Gertrude sleeping, only for her murder to happen. Man, this game went from 4-11 on the creepy scale quick.

I will NEVER forget my first impression seeing the silhouette of the Murderer walking the veranda after killing Gertie. Especially the shape of that hat, and the empty emotions the shadow had… I was eleven years old, and boy was I afraid of my computer.

But very early on, I KNEW who it was. That Hat the shadow wore was just too distinct. And there certainly are some wearing a hat. The Shadow also came off as a female to me right from the start. The emotionless face of the Shadow on the Veranda was BURNED into my eyes, but the features of the nose at least, told me the murderer had to be female.

On I play. Oh, what’s this Handkerchief? And I very much get scared seeing that Shadow creep around the back windows of the house.

The hat the Murderer is wearing. I could never forget the shadow of the hat. There’s a reason I’m fixated on the hat.

By act three of the game, I knew, I was ABSOLUTELY sure, Ethel was the Murderer. And she is wearing that Hat I keep talking about. But I knew it was going to need more evidence than just that. That’s where the Handkerchief comes in. I didn’t immediately learn you could search bodies that easy, but with the old save and restore mechanic (which helped me to retrace my steps) I eventually got the monocle from dead Wilbur, and learned about inspecting the items with it. And what do I find on the handkerchief? EP. Ethel Prune. My first piece of evidence found at the scene proves my hypothesis.

Now… remember I said I was Eleven years old, so things I clearly didn’t understand from an adult perspective yet, but as I became completely certain Ethel was the murderer, was right when she began drunkenly waving around the entire property. But I still thought this was some sort of act.

Now to explain the motive I thought of why Ethel was murdering people, I could not tell you. She was jealous of the Colonel and let alcohol take her over? But I did wind up finding I was quite incorrect with her being like the fourth or fifth murder in the game. Once Ethel was dead, I was truly stumped on who the Murderer was.

Once again, I was eleven years old my first time playing, so I didn’t get complex subjects like parasocial relationships, and didn’t see with my own eyes that it was Lillian who was tripping out so hard.

Eventually I discovered pre-bundled save states that let me jump straight to the final act, so I saw that Lillian did get killed too, but that door to the attic….

This is where my silly story is about to get even stranger, but I would NOT go through that attic door by Fifi’s room for anything. I was batshit frightened of what I was going to see. I might’ve thought I’d see the Colonel as a super-demon-zombie sucking the final victim dry (needless to say I still didn’t understand Colonel) and worried I’d break my monitor in fear…

I don’t really need to elaborate much further. I did fight my fears, and go through that door, seeing all three endings, and finally understanding what everything was.

And the Colonels Bequest is a beautiful childhood memory.

Currently have windows 98 installed but I want a pure dos system on it.

I’d like to play some of the games but I wouldn’t find it fun having to restart a bunch of times but I was wondering if it’s worth playing without a walkthrough because the games are very short so I could finish them with a bunch of trial and error or should I just use a walkthrough instead because the puzzles are just very unfair I hope this makes sense

I've worked on this game for over four years and spent much longer just planning it out. Now, after all this time, it's finally done and ready to play.

https://akril15.com/games/it4/index.html

9/10: One player encountered a progress-halting bug in the second half of Chapter 2. If you've encountered it, you may need to re-download the game. Your saved games should still work.

9/15: I've been notified that there are issues with the Linux version having no EXE (it can only created on a Linux system, apparently), and I'm trying to find a solution. (UPDATE: Added instructions to the game's page.)

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A striking resemblance to a couple guys we know?

Kings quest series

Police quest series

Space quest series

Quest for glory series

Gabriel knight series

Phantasmagoria 1 and 2

Leisure suit Larry series

Gold rush

Codename iceman

Shivers 1 and 2

Freddy pharkas frontier pharmacist

Torin’s passage

Lighthouse the dark being

Conquest of the longbow the legend of Robin Hood

Conquest of camelot the search for the grail

The colonels bequest and the dagger of amon ra

I grew up with Sierra games as a kid, and they remain some of my favourite and oft-replayed games of all time. However, there are a few I have never played and at 46 I would finally like to remedy that.

But which are worth it, which are crap, and which one first?

Unplayed:

• Gold Rush

• Codename Iceman

• Gabriel Knight

• Robin Hood

• Phantasmagoria

• KQ7

• PQ4

I tried Iceman recently and really struggled makong me feel old as hell (were those games that hard when I was a kid?) but GK has always intrigued me and PQ4 or KQ7 feel like closure if I chose tem.

I still LOVE most other Sierra games, but worry now I will struggle to get interested in one I don't know like I was with Iceman, especially since I want to avoid walkthroughs if possible.

If it helps, my favourites are SQ1, Manhunter 1, QFG SCI, SQ3, KQ6, PQ2, SQ4 and LSL6.

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For anyone who contributed to the Kickstarter or Indiegogo campaigns for Son of Sequel, do you know if we will get the rest of the Gabriel Knight 4 story, or was it only that one chapter? I knew it was going to be a short story, but I didn't expect it to be that short lol