First post, by NewRisingSun
I have two PC versions of King's Quest V CD-ROM: one with AUDIO001.002 dated December 1991, and one dated April 1992. The December 1991 sounds sounds less muffled and has more siblant "s" sounds than the April 1992 version.
However, the Fujitsu FM-Towns version of the game, which has both English (AUDIO001.002) and Japanese (AUDIO081.002) audio, has AUDIO001.002 dated July 1991. It sounds as muffled as the April 1992 PC version, but with more reverb during the narrator lines. The FM-Towns version has the introduction and ending speech lines without music in the background --- playing the music on the FM synthesizer instead ---, while the PC versions have (low-fidely) recordings of the MT-32 music mixed into the speech audio.
Was there a July 1991 (or even earlier) version of King's Quest V CD-ROM on the PC? If so, does anyone have it? I find it hard to believe that the earliest-released CD-ROM version of a PC game would be for something other than a PC.
Both PC versions have a version string of 1.000.052 (the RESOURCE.* files are dated December 1991 even on the April 1992 version, in other words, only the audio files were changed), while the FM-Towns version has a version string of 1.000.000. All three versions have a High Sierra, rather than an ISO 9660, file system.