King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder is an adventure game, and the first from Sierra to use a point-and-click mouse interface. Rather than typing commands on a keyboard to interact with the game world and use the arrow keys to walk around, King's Quest V instead simplifies all actions down to base commands. To access the different cursors, the player can move the mouse to the top of the screen, revealing a hidden menu with each of the different actions, as well as game options and the inventory bag. By clicking the 'Walk' cursor on the screen, Graham will walk as close as he can to the appropriate area. Clicking the 'Eye' cursor on items will provide a description, the same as typing 'Look at'. The 'Hand' cursor is a multipurpose cursor that can be used to push, pull, interact with and pick up objects. The 'Head' cursor is used to talk to people (and in the strange world of King's Quest, often objects and animals, too). Players can also right-click to cycle through the different available cursors. Inventory that Graham picks up now gets placed into a bag. By clicking on the bag, this opens up a sub-window that displays all the inventory that Graham currently has. In here, players can look at or interact with objects, combine them with other objects, or pick them up to use them in the game environment as another cursor.

While it was a beautiful sunny day, King Graham decided to go out for a walk in the woods and hope that everything is normal when he got back. However, while he was gone, an evil wizard called Mordack uses a spell to warp his castle out of Daventry, along with the royal family. Soon after, Graham came back, only to realize that the castle is gone. After he wonders why, an owl called Cedric speaks to him about it and transports him to the land of Serenia, where his boss Crispin helps him get ready to face up to Mordack. Cedric is asked to go with him to make sure that Graham does not get in trouble.

Thanks to Rosella, King Graham is strong and healthy once again, and can go back to doing what he loves most - going for walks. While he is out one splendid summer day, an evil sorcerer named Mordack appears and transports Castle Daventry (with the rest of the royal family) to a faraway place. Graham must once again quest for the good of his country, but this time he is not alone. He gets help from the good wizard Crispin and his talking owl Cedric. The latter even travels alongside Graham throughout the game (although he will not put himself in danger).

As for the improvements in the game, they are mind-boggling! Words cannot even begin to describe the difference in gameplay from KQ4! Just look at the screenshots taken from both games, and you will already see why the game scores 5 points! The music has also been improved, and for the first time in any of the KQ series, the mouse controls everything! You can easily switch among commands with a click of the right mouse button. You must play this game in order to believe the magnificent difference between this one and the previously released titles.

King’s Quest 4: The Perils of Rosella was released in 1988 by Sierra On-Line. It was designed by Roberta Williams and was the first PC game to support sound cards instead of the old PC speaker. It also features improved graphics a day/night cycle and mouse support. King’s Quest – Sierra Classic Gaming. Picard (44474) added King's Quest 4+5+6 (Windows) on Feb 25, 2010 Credits. There are no game credits on file for this release of the game. Everything in MobyGames is. Welcome to a walkthrough of King's Quest 6: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow. Just pure gameplay. KQ6 was released in 1992 and features Prince Alexander who travels. Welcome to the Kings Quest 4+5+6 Mac game page. This page contains information + tools how to port Kings Quest 4+5+6 so you can play it on your Mac just like a normal application using Crossover. So if you haven’t Crossover yet, then sign up here and buy the program or if you want to test it first, for the 14 days trial. Or use the Porting.

There should not be any reason to say anything else. Take a look at the screenshots, download it, and play it again and again and again!

Part of the King's Quest Series

In King's Quest 5 we have the return of King Graham on the spotlight as a much older man. After rescuing his wife-to-be in King's Quest 2, King Graham didn't have any more adventures. Instead his children were the main characters of King's Quest 3 and 4. As King's Quest 5 opens, Graham is taking a walk alone. When he returns, he finds his castle missing. There he meets a strange talking owl, named Cedrick, which tells him that his castle and family have been abducted by a wizard named Mordack. The owl and Graham, using a magic dust given by Cedrick's owner, fly to a far-away land in pursuit of this wizard.

As King's Quest 1 was the first animated graphic adventure, King's Quest 5 is the first 256-color adventure and the first adventure by Sierra using a new UI consisting of icons (walk, see, use etc) that later became common to all the classic adventure games by Sierra. The interface is very simple. You click on an action-icon from an icon-bar that appears on top of the screen when you move your mouse there (or your right click through the actions). It's a typical adventure game, but one, which excels in beautiful background art, and interesting locations. Indeed you will travel through forests (dark and light alike), a desert, a cold mountain and by the sea to find Graham's family. This game was voted the adventure game of the year (1990) by some groups and was also the first Sierra adventure to have a CD-ROM version, where speech was included.

This is a classic adventure game that pioneered the adventure game genre, much like its ancestor King's Quest 1. No more 16-color artwork and text parsers. Here Sierra follows LucasArts in making a fully point-and-click adventure game, but using the concept of icons instead of text-verbs. As a King's Quest game, it's the last game of the series featuring King Graham as the main character and provides the foundation for the better King's Quest 6.

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King's Quest IV is the first SCI game. To showcase their new SCI engine, Sierra chose its flagship series, King's Quest, to be first to have its next installment to be developed in SCI.

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Description

Roberta Williams's King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella was the forth installment of Roberta Williams's King's Quest Series. It is the first SCI game. To showcase their new SCI engine, Sierra chose its flagship series, King's Quest, to be first to have its next installment to be developed in SCI. An AGI version was co-developed for customers that did not meet the minimum hardware requirements of the new SCI engine. ^{Citation Required[2]}

Versions

There have been a number of releases of the SCI version of the game, with interpreter versions ranging from 0.000.247 to 0.000.502. In addition to revisions of the PC version, there were ports for other platforms. These ports often had different features based on what the abilities of the target platform. The Amiga port had digital sound effects for environmental sounds, which was missing from the PC version.

Note that the first version(s?) of the game did not recognize resources outside of the resource archive. This made patching the game more difficult as new resource patches cannot simply be dropped into the game's folder. To be accessible to the game the patch needs to be packed and mapped in the game's resource archive to be accessible to the game.

SCI0 (early)

SCI0 (late)

Amiga

Atari ST

PC version 1.000.106 and 1.000.111 are the only ones with the original detailed graphics. For 1.003.006 and later versions, Sierra simplified the background graphics to make the game fit on one 5.25 inch disk less, removing background detail and separate night pictures.

The KQ4FIX patch dated 1989-02-15 addresses error message '0x80/653 not found' at DOSBox cycle settings above 1500 when entering the screen with the waterfall. This patch only applies to version 1.003.006. This problem was corrected in the later version 1.006.003 and is not needed in versions 1.006.003 or 1.006.004.

PC version 1.006.004 is the latest PC version and has the main character walking faster diagonally. It also changes the arrangement for the Fisherman's theme (for the better) and replaces 'Lolotte's death' music with a completely different one. This is the version used for the King's Quest Collector's Edition, King's Quest Collection Series, Roberta Williams Anthology, King's Quest Collection (2006), GOG King's Quest 4+5+6 Collection.

Synopsis

Travel with Rosella, the beautiful princess and heroine of King's Quest IV. journey to a town far away. Search for the enchanted fruit that will restore life to her father 's lips, and safely return to her homeland.

King's Quest 4

Face creatures from ancient legend, from beautiful unicorns to hideous ogres. Acquire treasures that are necessary to ensure your safety. Save Genesta from imminent death by destroying the evil Lolotte and returning the sacred talisman which once rested around her neck.^[4]

About

King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella featured SCI's higher resolution graphics as well as AdLib and Roland MT-32 music with a 'full soundtrack' by William Goldstein. An AGI version of King's Quest IV was co-developed for customers who could not meet the high hardware requirements of Sierra's new SCI engine. A customer who purchased the game that could not run the game was able to send in his SCI disks in for replacement with the AGI version.

As hardware began to advance beyond what AGI could utilize, Sierra began development on its next engine, SCript Interpreter or later Sierra Creative Interpreter (SCI). A year before the last official AGI game, Manhunter 2: San Francisco in 1989, Sierra released the first SCI (SCI0) game, King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella in 1988. In keeping with Moore's Law, SCI could take advantage of the constantly increasing capabilities of the new hardware. As with AGI in its day, SCI was a big leap forward in technology. SCI's 200px x 320px vector graphics allowed for noticeably better graphics over AGI's 160px x 200px. While still just 16 colors, but SCI0 introduced dithering, which mixed pixels of different colors into the same fill areas that gave the effect of more than 16 colors.

Sound

SCI introduced support for the new sound cards. This expanded its audio capabilities over that of AGI's three voice with noise channel sound PCjr/Tandy sound. With the advent SCI, music became an inseparable part of Sierra games. Even though the first exposure most had was with AdLib's hoots and honks, it also supported the MPU-401, which allowed Sierra's composers to create some amazing Roland MT-32 sound tracks. KQ4's MT-32 track gave a quality to the game's music that at the time was unsurpassed.

King's Quest 4 used a manual check based copy protection scheme at the start of the game.

Screenshots

There are two main releases of the SCI version of this game, 1.000.111 and 1.006.004. What is notable is the second release has more refined PICs or background images. Also, the first release used completely new PIC resources for all of the night scenes. The second release used PICs that were night sky overlays that were displayed over the daytime PIC.

Downloads

GOG

New Installers

• SHP New King's Quest 4 DOSBox Installer Setup File [742 KB]

Requires files from the original distribution media. Works with all versions of the game.

• SHP New King's Quest 4 DOSBox with Munt Installer Setup File [1.84 MB]

This new installer includes a Munt enabled build of DOSBox for MT-32 sound. It requires that the 'MT32_CONTROL.ROM' and 'MT32_PCM.ROM' ROMs be present on installation. Requires files from the original distribution media.

King's Quest 4 Online

• SHP Ultimate Kings Quest 4 with Amiga sounds and Munt Installer Setup File [3.29 MB]

This installer not only includes the Munt enabled build of DOSBox for MT-32 sound, but also adds sounds from the Amiga versions with a patch by NewRisingSun. Requires files from the original distribution media.

Demos

Patches

• Official KQ4FIX Patch ZIP File [2.74 KB]
  Fixes:

Lockups or errors at the waterfall scene (for version 1.003.006 only)

Walkthroughs/Hints

References

1. ↑'King's Quest Collection - Manual' (PDF). Sierra On-Line. 1997. p. 5. Retrieved 2016-09-25.
2. ↑This entry requires a citation or source.
3. ↑This version included the 'Great Master Adventurer Contest'
4. ↑MOCAGH.ORG: Sierra 88 Catalog 2015-11-06

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