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@95DosBox and koverhbarc
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Digital DOS games (GOG, Steam...) Retro PC Compatibility Sheet: We need your input!
QFG4 and SQ6 are both around 500-600MB, I believe due to full speech. I either of you know of a way to "reverse engineer" the files back to CD, please report how to in the link above.
Were they that large? I thought there was an original Floppy version of each that I had maybe I was mistaken?
Come to think of it I'm not sure if I actually played SQ6 or not. I do remember SQ4. As for QFG4 I never quite got into those games but I believe QFG1 and 2 were floppy based. Not sure about 3 and 4.
Given if these were only CD releases I would probably use an ISO image and mount it with Daemon Tools as a letter and perhaps you can mount that drive letter inside DOSBOX and see it as an actual CD.
But if these decompress into your hard drive then there's no need to do this. I would just create a Ramdrive and use the GOG installer and point to the Ramdrive we will called drive Z:.
Then the game will be installed on Drive Z:
When you run the game it be running off your Ramdrive instead of your hard drive.
I just downloaded the SQ6 from GOG. It turns out this came from the newly released Space Quest Collection they reissued that used DOSBOX. I found the earlier variant of SQ6 and I was correct it was much smaller. I think the entire bloat came from the speech pack. The original SQ6 I found is 108MB in size. It is more barren and compact. Personally from playing SQ1-3 and I believe 4 I don't recall Roger Wilco ever speaking. It would be quite jarring to hear what his actor's voice sounds like and might ruin my nostalgia. Also they had done a VGA version of SQ1 but I don't think even that version added a speech pack.
I dug around and found QFG4 floppies ended up being 15MB total. I guess these were both the earlier Speech Free versions. I'm not sure what inflated QFG4 if it was all the speech?
The SQ6 Wave folder is the same for the original non speech and the CD version.
The biggest difference is the GOG SQC CD version contains a file called "RESOURCE.AUD" which is 436MB.
This file doesn't exist on the original SQ6 version.
Also if you wanted to get the original version that GOG is using find the "Space Quest Collection" that Vivendi Universal released on CD so it looks like you would get the same version minus some of the GOG installation files.
https://www.amazon.com/Space-Quest-Collection … C/dp/B000AYH89M
If you must play this in pure DOS I think I would go with the original SQ6 Floppy version. I think the original CD version you would have to hunt down on eBay and I don't know if that CD version was geared for DOS or possibly Windows 3.1 or 95?
New update:
Did some more tweaking and modifying tests.
I got the original SQ6 and SQ6 CD GOG version to work properly in DOSBOX but it should work in real DOS as well.
What was the error message you were getting in your DOS system when trying to run the game?
What file did you use to launch the game in DOS?
Also I don't see any need for you to reverse engineer back to a CD. If I'm correct you would simply copy/burn the entire folder onto a CD as is with my patched setup files or if you wanted it could be just the contents of the folder burned to the root of the CD and you could run it directly off a CD but I don't see why you wouldn't prefer to run it off a directory on your hard drive or SSD. It's not protected and it doesn't do a CD check like some others I've seen so you wouldn't need to load a CD-rom driver for the game to run in DOS either.
Here are the non original files on the GOG CD version you can purge from the directory. These files would not have existed on the original CD released and will not affect the functionality of it in PURE DOS.
customer_support.htm
Dosbox Configurator.lnk
dosboxSQ6.conf
dosboxSQ6_single.conf
EULA.txt
GameuxInstallHelper.dll
gog.ico
goggame-1207661463.dll
goggame-1207661463.hashdb
goggame-1207661463.ico
goggame-1207661463.info
Launch Space Quest 6 - Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier.lnk
Support.ico
unins000.dat
unins000.exe
unins000.msg
webcache.zip
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