Quest For Glory 4 1/2: No-Sound Bug Fix? & Why Is it Becoming Obscure :(

[FamousAdventurer77]

Ahh I can never fully enjoy my copy of QFG 4.5 because the sound doesn't work!! I am running under XP and I tried it to run it through the emulator VDMS, with both watching the intro and playing the game, and it would have sound and music for about 30 seconds before VDMS would close out and give me error messages, with Error Numbers that I can supposedly report? Can I actually report these errors anymore?

I also tried using DOSBox + D-Fend. Did not work at all.

I know it used an older version of the AGS Engine but does ANYONE know where I can obtain a bugfix or patch? Or how I can alter the code myself? I've been outta the abandonware/AGS gaming loop for a while with my other lives...did HOTU shut down? Every time I try to access its pages on my Bookmarks I'd get those dumb searchpages. And from my knowledge it was the only place to obtain QFG 4 1/2. I'm good at programming structure: But when it comes to tweaking an existing program I tend to bungle it. I don't want to ruin this great game especially if I can't just easily download it again.

And sadly it looks like this gem is dwindling into obscurity. The last post I've seen about this game from my search dates back to Dec '05 at the latest! If anyone could tell me how to fix this problem/send me a patched version over AIM I would be very grateful.

[Mordalles]

well, i dont know much about the problem, but i know that home of the underdogs is now located at: www.the-underdogs.info

[FamousAdventurer77]

Thanks a bunch!! Glad to see HOTU has remained in its original form. Though still I'm ripping my hair out trying to figure out a bugfix for QFG 4.5, or find out if an updated version was ever made. Or am I emulating this wrong somehow??? Here I was thinking I was a total DOS expert and this has me utterly stumped...