King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella

Description

King's Quest IV is the first SCI game. An AGI version of King's Quest IV was co-developed for customers who could not meet the high hardware requirements 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.

There have been a number of releases with the SCI interpreter, with interpreter versions ranging from 0.000.247 to 0.000.502.

Versions

SCI0 (early)

Game Game version Interpreter version Date

King's Quest IV 0.000.247

King's Quest IV 0.000.253

King's Quest IV 1.000.106 0.000.274 1988/9/19

King's Quest IV 1.000.111 0.000.274 1988/9/24/

Screenshots

There are two main releases of the SCI version of this game, 1.000.111 (09/24/88) and 1.006.004 (08/07/89). 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.

version 1.000.111 Pool Screen	version 1.006.004 Pool Screen
version 1.000.111 Ogre's House	version 1.006.004 Ogre's House
version 1.000.111 Witches' Cave	version 1.006.004 Witches' Cave
version 1.000.111 Night Pool Screen	version 1.006.004 Night Pool Screen