Sierra Quest Collections

[A Black Falcon]

No KQVIII... hah, trying to write it out of history are they? :D (and if those are accurate it's not just "these are rereleases of the collections from the mid '90s'; the old SQ collection, I believe, only had games 1-5, with maybe a demo of 6 at most.)

If these actually are real though, I'll be very intrested to see how they did it -- did they port the DOS versions, Windows 3.1 versions, or both, for titles that had multipler versions (King's Quests V through VII and perhaps Space Quest 6)? Because the DOS versions are so much better... to repeat myself...

DOS:
-Full screen 320x240 (or so)
-VGA graphics
-soundblaster sound, general midi/roland/soundblaster music (MIDI is the best, and my SB DOS emulation drivers emulate a general midi card too, so I use that)
-large color cursors

Windows
-windowed mode only -- there is always a bar on the top of the screen.
-256 color setting required for most titles
-window only resizes so much -- must be in 640x480 screen resolution to have it be a nearly fullscreen display
-black and white cursors only (your normal Windows cursor, I think)

Oh, and the save files for both versions of the games are incompatible (and in all cases where there are multiple versions they came together, I believe -- for all CD versions at least.)

They will need DOS emulation for the early KQ and SQ games so they'll have to do that first, so hopefully they'll just go all the way and just include all of the DOS versions, with some emulator on top of them to get rid of soundcard configs, screen resolution issues (auto-resize the screen, directsound, etc), etc...

If these ever actually come out. I'm not convinced, darnit! :P