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Revision as of 00:10, 16 December 2015
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.
Description
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.
The Roland MT-32 track gave a quality to the game's music that at the time was unsurpassed.
There have been a number of releases with the SCI interpreter, with interpreter versions ranging from 0.000.247 to 0.000.502.
Versions
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)
Game Game version Interpreter version Date Notes King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella 1.000.106 0.000.409 1988-09-19 Interpreter does not support patch files King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella 1.000.111 0.000.274 1988-09-23 Interpreter does not support patch files King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella 1.003.006 0.000.409 1988-12-19 Requires KQ4FIX patch King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella 1.006.003 0.000.502 1989-06-12 King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella 1.006.004 0.000.502 1989-08-07 Ego walks faster diagonally
Game Game version Interpreter version Date King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella 1.000.111 0.000.247 (label typo?) King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella Unknown 0.000.253 King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella 1.000.106 0.000.274 1988/09/19 King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella 1.000.111 0.000.274 1988/09/24
SCI0 (late)
Game Game version Interpreter version Date King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella 1.003.006 0.000.409 King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella 1.006.003 0.000.502 1989/06/12 King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella 1.006.004 0.000.502 1989/08/07
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 Installer
- 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.
Demos
Patches
- File:ZIP.PNG Official KQ4FIX Patch ZIP File [2.74 KB]
Fixes:
- Lockups or errors at the waterfall scene (for version 1.003.006 only)
Walkthroughs/Hints
Related Links
- King's Quest Series
- King's Quest IV Technical Help on The Sierra Help Pages
- King's Quest Series on The Sierra Help Pages
- King's Quest IV on Wikipedia
- King's Quest Series on Wikipedia
- King's Quest IV on MobyGames
- King's Quest Series on MobyGames
- Sierra Game List