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Quest for Glory 1 VGA problem

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First post, by Caladorn

Posted on 2007-06-20, 05:20

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Hi,

I'm running the VGA version of Quest for Glory 1 (from the quest for glory collection) with Dosbox 0.65. It runs fine, except for two minor issues.

The first is that the colors are all messed up in the Centaur Farm screen every time I enter, although they revert to normal if I talk to the Centaur. No big deal.

The second is much more annoying. When I open the submenu to access my character sheet, time of day, resting, sneaking, etc., any mouse movement immediately closes the submenu. I can only navigate it with TAB and ENTER. Anyone else run across this issue or know how to resolve it?

Update
I've tried it with the new .70 version of Dosbox, and I have the same problem. I've also confirmed that Quest for Glory 3 has the same problem on my system.

Reply 1 of 12, by collector

Posted on 2007-06-20, 06:44

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How are you loading the game in DOSBox? Did you try running DOSBox with all default settings? Post the contents of your RESOURCE.CFG.

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Reply 2 of 12, by Caladorn

Posted on 2007-06-20, 06:46

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[]
videoDrv=VGA320.DRV
soundDrv=ADL.DRV 220
audioDrv=AUDBLAST.DRV 220
joyDrv=NO
kbdDrv=IBMKBD.DRV
mouseDrv=STDMOUSE.DRV
memoryDrv=NO
minHunk=200k
directory=\SIERRA\QGANTH\QG1NEW
cmd=HERO
language=1

Reply 3 of 12, by Caladorn

Posted on 2007-06-20, 06:54

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Huh. I actually seem to have found a fix. If I turn on "auto-lock mouse" in my d-fend profile, it works properly. It's too bad though, because I don't like having a locked mouse. Oh well.

Reply 4 of 12, by Qbix

Posted on 2007-06-20, 07:17

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weird.
You might want to try to change the output setting in dosbox.conf

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Reply 5 of 12, by collector

Posted on 2007-06-20, 07:36

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Weren't there some compatibility problems with D-fend and DOSBox .65?

Reply 6 of 12, by leileilol

Posted on 2007-06-20, 17:51

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Caladorn wrote:
The first is that the colors are all messed up in the Centaur Farm screen every time I enter, although they revert to normal if I talk to the Centaur. No big deal.

This isn't a DOSbox bug. This actually happens on a real pc too so it's really a game bug. I've seen this happen on my 386 various times.

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Reply 7 of 12, by collector

Posted on 2007-06-20, 18:06

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There is a patch that addresses some palette problems.

ftp://ftp.sierra.com/pub/patches/pc/qgepat.exe

Reply 8 of 12, by Caladorn

Posted on 2007-06-20, 22:43

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leileilol wrote:
Caladorn wrote:
The first is that the colors are all messed up in the Centaur Farm screen every time I enter, although they revert to normal if I talk to the Centaur. No big deal.

This isn't a DOSbox bug. This actually happens on a real pc too so it's really a game bug. I've seen this happen on my 386 various times.

Huh. It never used to happen on my old floppy disk version back in the day (which was stolen!). Did you see it with the anthology version?

Reply 9 of 12, by leileilol

Posted on 2007-06-20, 22:53

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Caladorn wrote:

Did you see it with the anthology version?

Never had the anthology; only 5" floppies.

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Reply 10 of 12, by Caladorn

Posted on 2007-06-20, 22:54

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collector wrote:
Weren't there some compatibility problems with D-fend and DOSBox .65?

If so, as noted in the update to my original post, I tried it in Dosbox .70 without D-fend and had the same issue.

Reply 11 of 12, by Caladorn

Posted on 2007-06-20, 23:01

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collector wrote:
There is a patch that addresses some palette problems.

ftp://ftp.sierra.com/pub/patches/pc/qgepat.exe

That patch is diskette version only; again, I'm using the qfg anthology version.

Reply 12 of 12, by collector

Posted on 2007-06-22, 17:15

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Caladorn wrote:
collector wrote:
Weren't there some compatibility problems with D-fend and DOSBox .65?

If so, as noted in the update to my original post, I tried it in Dosbox .70 without D-fend and had the same issue.

D-fend is no longer actively being developed. .63 is the last version of DOSBox that is fully supported. .07 probably has more compatibility problems with D-fend than .65. Try DBGL or D.O.G. as both can import D-fend profiles.

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