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- From: ftw33616@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (.)
- Subject: Re: King's Quest 6 Demo at Lowell
- References: <1992Dec12.151602.6942@nlm.nih.gov> <1992Dec13.025825.14992@nlm.nih.gov>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 08:22:17 GMT
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- dabl2@nlm.nih.gov (Don A.B. Lindbergh) writes:
-
- >it is now also (by reqest) at wuarchive in /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS
- >kq6demo1-4.exe, 4 files + kqdemo.txt as required by wuarchive.
-
- Okay, what is the deal with this demo.
- 1) It allows for you to install a mouse and/or joystick. are they used
- _anywhere_? Sure, they move the crown around at the beginning, but that's
- it? all this appears to be is a large film.
-
- 2) The instructions say: install each disk onto floppys, and then install
- onto hard disk. run it once to initialize the whole thing. great.
- However, disk 1 of 4 has a 2 meg file. doesn't work too well. I tried
- to be cute and install it on d:, and trying subst a: d: to make it think
- the d drive was the a drive, but no dice. it asked me to insert disk
- 2.
-
- 3) On that point, is this complete? I thought it requires 13megs of disk
- space, but there are only 6 megs of files? is the 13 meg limit
- due to the extra space required in the halfway point between
- decompression and deletion of the original archive files?
-
- Anyway, my opinions of the game. Nice film, but it still doesn't give you
- any idea of how the game is played, or what's it like. I highly doubt you
- move around people as nicely detailed as the ones in the demo, instead the
- demo shows you 'close up' views that happen every now and then. of course, I
- could be wrong, and the game prolly takes 9 gonzo bytes of disk space.
-
- so...... let me know what I'm messing up. thanks. very impressive demo,
- tho. the water looks goofy, and it has a nice powermonger type sweep in it,
- and it's cool. Interesting that the install.txt file has descriptions of
- the soundblaster pro, but the install file doesn't seem to let you setup one,
- only using the original. :(
-
-
- - Frank Wang
-
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