Reconstructing "King's Quest"

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Mon Nov 5 13:09:43 2001

On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Cameron Kaiser wrote:

> Now that I have my utility 486 up and running with a PC 5.25" drive, there
> are some projects to be commenced.
>
> One of them is to get King's Quest transferred over to the PCjr, since KQ1
> only plays music through the PCjr. (Or so they say.) PC Gamer published
> the original KQ1 on one of their cover discs about a year ago, which I have,
> and was able to unpack it and it's sitting on the utility 486.
>
> The problem is that the total size of the files is ~400K, and I'm willing
> to bet that the PCjr's floppy does not support HD 5.25" (right now I'm
> about 100 miles away from it, or else I'd test it :-). If it does do HD
> floppies, that solves the entire problem.

Cameron, why not rig up an external 720k drive to solve your problem.

                                                 - don

> Assuming it does not, what is the layout of files on the various KQ floppies?
> Can someone list the files on their KQ1 disk(s)?
>
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