Okay, I went and bought the Compilation CD, rather than trying to get my old files to work (since it also had a few of the SQ games I hadn't played way back when). It's advertised as running on XP. So, I load it up and ..... it uses DOSBox to run! :happyhappy: Pretty funny, but happily, it works! I …

I had done that before, but I tried it again, now that I have fiddled with the resource.cfg file. Unfortunately nothing changed - still get the floppy icon and still get stuck in the DOSBox window. I appreciate all your help. Thanks. Anything else you can think of would also be appreciated. 😀

Well, I'm still having trouble. I had used DOSBox to run another Sierra game a year or two ago, so I got drivers from that directory and put them in the SQ3 directory, then edited the resource.cfg file to point to them. Now I don't get errors, but the DOSBox window shows just a floppy icon. If I …

Thanks for the help. I had run the install, but it doesn't say anything about video. I downloaded freeSCI and it worked! Thanks for that link - I can play now. 😁 It would be nice to get it to work in DOSBox, though, if anyone has any ideas.

Tried to load Space Quest 3 and got this message. Hunted through these forums and read the readme file but didn't find anything.