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Quest for Infamy / Re: QFG 4.5 Discussion Part XVIII

« on: October 07, 2014, 10:59:02 AM »

Finally found my A F disk, after turning the house upside down 
Worse yet, it's version 1.21, the last one and due it's being so old, the last trainer was for 1.17. Oh well, hex and a memory changer will probably do. Been so long since playing this one, I'll be awhile before I can tell you much. 

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Quest for Infamy / Re: QFG 4.5 Discussion Part XVIII

« on: October 06, 2014, 10:05:01 PM »

I'm sure I have arx around somewhere. might take a look.







http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8596

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Quest for Infamy / Re: QFG 4.5 Discussion Part XVIII

« on: October 05, 2014, 10:26:10 PM »

Ever wonder why a dog does it? Because he can 

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Quest for Infamy / Re: QFG 4.5 Discussion Part XVIII

« on: October 05, 2014, 05:21:20 PM »

Recently found Centaur's page, at the SHP site, on hex editing items in QFG5 save games, and furnished all the item codes. He or she, only knew about changing an existing item to something else, and stated they had yet to figure how to add new items. Following is how to do it:

A starting character has 200 gold in inventory; 47 8B 01 00 C8 followed by 11 bytes of 00's (I consider a byte as 00).
Then the next item following the same pattern. After all items in inventory, there's a series of 47 8B 01 00 FA 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 47 8B 01 00 FA and so on. To add the Magic Axe, change the 47 8B to 07 8B and change the FA to 01, then replace the 02 with 00. The following 7 bytes (00 00 00 00 00 00 00) are ok. Then the next 47 8B sequence to change for another item.

Strange nobody ever made a save game editor for QFG5

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Quest for Infamy / Re: QFG 4.5 Discussion Part XVIII

« on: October 05, 2014, 02:12:06 PM »

Got that taken care of.

Many years ago, when playing QFG4, didn't realize the 3 guys sitting in the Inn at night are characterizations of a very fat Jack Nicholson, an emaciated Rodney Dangerfield, and Royal Dano. Quite amusing to hear them talk!

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Quest for Infamy / Re: QFG 4.5 Discussion Part XVIII

« on: October 04, 2014, 11:17:34 PM »

I found my CD version of QFG4. Installed dosbox on both win7/64bit and winxp/32 bit and installed the game CDless. The game looks so much better on 32 bit vs 64 bit. And on 64 bit the mouse is very sensitive. Guess I could slow it down somewhat. Anyhow, even though QFG5 has an exported paladin from QFG4, thought I'd play through QFG4 and export as paladin and compare it to what is on the QFG5 disk.

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Quest for Infamy / Re: QFG 4.5 Discussion Part XVIII

« on: October 03, 2014, 11:34:50 AM »

I'll just apply the 1.2 and see what happens
If that screws it up, heck, just install it again and forget about the separate update.

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Quest for Infamy / Re: QFG 4.5 Discussion Part XVIII

« on: October 03, 2014, 08:55:11 AM »

Back to qfg5. After getting it properly installed on w7 64 bit and running ok, noticed the game exe for starting the game was "Quest For Glory 5.exe"
The original AFG5.exe was in the newly installed directory and it too works and it is the 1.0.0.2 version.
The Quest For Glory 5.exe says 1.1, so does that fix the issues that the 1.0.0.2 fixed? Guess I'll find out when encountering the glitches that were previously fixed.

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Quest for Infamy / Re: QFG 4.5 Discussion Part XVIII

« on: October 02, 2014, 06:39:53 PM »

A few days ago, briefly noticed a reference about Quest For Glory 6, or Hero 6. It was a fan based game that apparently never saw light, even though it had been worked on for years. No telling how many fan based games there could have been due to lack of funds.

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Quest for Infamy / Re: QFG 4.5 Discussion Part XVIII

« on: October 02, 2014, 10:14:16 AM »

It works!!!! Graphics aren't as good as a regular windows installed game, but still pretty good. I noticed the Paladin save is available for import, so trying that. Don't ever opt to jump right into adventuring instead of going to the town. You'll get your whatsis handed to you.

Many thanks, old chap 

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Quest for Infamy / Re: QFG 4.5 Discussion Part XVIII

« on: October 02, 2014, 12:16:14 AM »

Huh uh. None of that virtual bs for me. Anyhow, when trying to start the game in win 7 64 bit, a message says "static". Even the sierra tools says I have no internet connection. L o L

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Installed QT 7.
Applied the 64 bit update for 1.2. Installed the compatability patch for win2k/xp. Set the desktop icon for compatability mode for win 2000 and administrative rights. The intro plays, but still when try to start the game, same message in a small blank square shows "Static" looks like this:

Clicking on the OK, something with sound tries to happen but then nothing.

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Quest for Infamy / Re: QFG 4.5 Discussion Part XVIII

« on: October 01, 2014, 08:58:45 PM »

I think the problem here is the quicktime on my disks is 32 bit. tried running it and message said I need a 64 bit QT. That's probably why it wouldn't run on my modern machine. I'll try finding an updated QT.

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Quest for Infamy / Re: QFG 4.5 Discussion Part XVIII

« on: October 01, 2014, 07:26:34 PM »

QFG 5 is not fan based, it was released in stores as "Quest For Glory: Dragon Fire" and came on 2 cd's. It uses the gamedisk as a rather lame form of copy protection. So my two disk set is a gold mine and not likely to be many of them out there in the gaming world. Originally released in 1989 and I got mine at a now defunct company that was bought out by another.

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Quest for Infamy / Re: QFG 4.5 Discussion Part XVIII

« on: October 01, 2014, 06:38:56 PM »

Found original game disk for QFG5. No matter what, the D#%n thing will not work in win 7 64 bit. Not ever with the 1.2 update and the compatability patch for w2000/xp 64 bit.

Fortunately I recently acquired the old xp 32 bit pc and QFG5 does great after update and compat patch. Only thing I don't like is the game cd is required. There's a fix for 1.0 but not 1.2. Maybe I can change some file to point to the game directory instead of the cd.

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Quest for Infamy / Re: Revisiting the five steps to BT

« on: October 01, 2014, 10:27:50 AM »

Ringing, me too, but with a twist:
When my bp low part is a bit high, the ringing is much quieter.
When the low part is low, the ringing is louder. I've got a built in bp monitor.

I found out that red meat and deep fried foods (restaurants rarely change the oil,
furnishing customers with tons of triglycerides) played hell on my bp, cholesterol,
abdominal bagel, the round fatty thing with a hole in it, at least that's what came
to mind, swelling of the ankles, etc.
The more one enjoys life, the more complications result.
If I didn't stay active with lots of walking, jogging/running, outside work, I'd be
an absolute basket case.