King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder

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King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder
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Release Date: Dec, 2012
Project Status: N/A
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Developer(s): Sierra
Publisher: Sierra
Designer(s): Template:Roberta Williams
Source Available:  No
Category: Demo
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Genre: Adventure
Theme(s): {{{Theme}}}
Engine: SCI1
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Platform: Template:MS-DOS, Windows 3x, Template:Macintosh, Amiga, Template:Atari ST, Template:Apple II, Template:Apple IIGS, Amiga, Template:Atari ST, Template:Tandy Color Computer 3,
Localization: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish
Website: www.sierra.com


| Developer = Sierra | Publisher = Sierra | Designer = | Category = Full Release | Genre = Adventure | Engine = SCI | Platform = MS-DOS, Macintosh, Apple II, Apple IIGS, Amiga, Atari ST, Tandy Color Computer 3 | Localization = English | Website = www.sierra.com (web archive) }}

King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder is the fifth installment of the King's Quest Series.

Description

In keeping with Sierra's tradition of using cutting edge technology in its current games they were developing, King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder is Sierra's first VGA game and one of the first ever VGA games. The game featured Sierra's new Point & Click interface. The MPC re-release was one of Sierra's first CD-ROM games. The huge increase in storage capacity allowed for both digital sound effects and speech files, making it Sierra's first talkie adventure game. To accommodate the addition of the digital audio files, the SCI1 interpreter had a new type of resource added, AUD. Prior SCI games had to embed digital samples (only 8-bit mono) in a SOUND resource. The size was limited to just 65536 bytes, total. Small digital samples could also be included in the MT-32 sound track, but this was limited to those lucky few who owned a Roland MT-32 module. The full AUDIO resources only required the user to have a digital sound card.

 

Versions

SCI1 (early)

Game Game version Interpreter version Date
King's Quest V VGA 0.000.051 1.000.060  
King's Quest V VGA 0.000.062 1.000.060  

SCI1 (late)

Game Game version Interpreter version Date
King's Quest V VGA (Fr./Eng.) 1.000 1.000.784  
King's Quest V VGA (Ger./Eng.) 1.000 1.000.784  
King's Quest V VGA (Sp./Eng.) 1.000 1.000.784  

SCI1 (unknown)

Game Game version Interpreter version Date
King's Quest V EGA 0.000.055 1.000.058  
King's Quest V EGA 0.000.062 1.000.073  

Unknown versions

Game Game version Interpreter version Date
King's Quest V (CD) (SCI11) 1.000.052 x.yyy.yyy 1990

 

Screenshots

KQ5SS1.png KQ5SS2.png

 

Downloads

GOG

New Installer

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

Demos

  • King's Quest V Demo - None known

Patches

 

Walkthroughs/Hints

 

Related Links

 


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