King's Quest VGA took months, if not years, for AGD Interactive to create, and I'm pretty sure they started from scratch. They didn't just run a magical "remake-this-in-VGA" program - it is not a trivial task. If you want to remake Prophecy of the Shadow, start learning how to program.

Now, if you would perhaps explain which three different DOS emulators you tried to use and what sort of problems you encountered, then we might be able to help you - and whatever the problem is, I assure you it would be vastly less difficult to overcome than it would be to remake the game in VGA!

Prophecy of the Shadow is a VGA game and works in DOSBox.

Well, I used DOSBox first, then scumm vm then, virtual PC-DOS. DOSBox says no sound hardware, then goes back to command prompt. The other scumm says no game found, the other does nothing at all.
I just found a program called VDM Sound. Says its supposed to work with DOSBox. How is it done?

Does anyone have the walkthrough for this game? I found Kenns map page but need walkthrough.

ScummVM is not a DOS emulator! ScummVM is an interpreter for a very narrow and very specific range of games that does not include anything by SSI at this time. VDMSound has not been in development for years now and there is very little reason to use it instead of DOSBox. As for Virtual PC doing nothing at all, that will depend on what steps you took to set it up.

But as Mr. Robertmo said, it works in DOSBox. You likely have to reconfigure the game to recognize the IRQ of DOSBox's emulated sound hardware.

Fastvan67 wrote:

Does anyone have the walkthrough for this game? I found Kenns map page but need walkthrough.

If you're asking for a walkthrough, does that mean you have it running now?

Well, since I never used dosbox before. Could you please explain to me exactly how to use dosbox? I tried the directions that come with it, but I guess i just don't understand.
Yes, I dug around in my attic and found an old Canon MT9620 166mhz computer. I installed it on there and it works great. Just the way I remember.

But, its my new computer I would love to play it on.

I have no idea how you installed the game or what you are doing, but if you have gotten it to a point where "DOSBox says no sound hardware", then I am going to assume you are doing something right.

I have examined a copy of Prophecy of the Shadow. From within DOSBox, try deleting CAT.CFG, and then run START. Select Sound Blaster for both music and sound. Afterwards, run QUEST.

Read my 60 Seconds Guide to DOSBox (and don't just read it - follow it too).

If that doesn't help, come back with details on how you mounted your C and D drives, how you did the install, how you configured sound, music etc.

Reading the aptly named README file will be a good idea too.

Hi guys. I have a different issue with this game.
I follow the instructions as above. I have no sound issue, but I did this anyway.
My problem is I get an error message:

Cannot read file! guild.xmi

I do have a "guild.xmi" file. It's in the correct directory with all the other files (C:/PROPHECY)
My config is DosBox 0.74, on Mac OS X Leopard.
Thanks for the help!

Follow Minimax Post above yours and open your own thread instead of necro posting in an old thread