Quest For Glory 4

[agamesroom]

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[Hesam]

hey guys,

i downloaded the 5 .rar files for the CD version of the game and extracted them to the same folder.. I end up with a file called ' VOLUME_ID.iso '.

What do I do with this file? Have I made a mistake somewhere? Thanks.

[Faeran]

Hey Hesam,

You have not come up with a mistake, I guess that may seem a little odd these days, ending up with a file like that, but I will try to explain.

The VOLUME_ID.iso file is an image file of the original CD. You can do one of 2 things with this file:

1. You can use a cd burning program (like Nero) to burn the image file onto a CD. This way you will have your very own CD copy of the original game.

2. You can use a program like . This program can create a virtual CD drive on your computer, allowing you to load this image file into it. This will allow you to run the image file like a real CD on your computer, without the need to make a physical CD.


Either way you do it should yield similar results. I am unsure how this game runs with more recent systems, I will see if I have any old info about it somewhere.

Hope this helps clear things up a bit, and hope you can try to load it up in DOSBox and make it work for ya.

[Hesam]

Thanks Faeran,

I think that makes sense. My pc has a messed-up cd drive that I just don't trust, so I decided to go the Daemon Tools route. I have that installed on my computer now, but I'm a rookie when it comes to that software. I can mount/load the .iso file I got from the .rar files, but nothing happens.

Sorry to bug you. Maybe there's something you know or can suggest, otherwise I'm pretty happy with the disk version of the game.

Cheers,
Hesam

[Faeran]

[Hesam]

[jdash392]

Hello,

Thanks for the above advice, worked like a charm!

I've found from another website a way to bypass having to manually mount your drive and CD-ROM each time you want to play.

Instructions:

Find your original Doxbox install file (Or download it again if you have lost it).


Firstly: Run the downloaded installer file and install Dosbox on your hard drive in whatever directory QFG4 is presently in.


Next: Open the folder then the DOSBOX folder within it. Locate and then run Dosbox by double clicking on the Dosbox program icon.


Next: At the the command prompt in Dosbox type "config -writeconf dosbox.conf" and then press the "Enter" key.


This will make a "config" file appear in that folder.


Next: Type "exit" to exit Dosbox.


Now: Locate and right click on the Dosbox config file. Click "open with" & select notepad.


Finally: With the dosbox config file open scroll to the bottom. We are going to place some text below [autoexec]:

In my case as I have installed it to the folder "dos" and my virtual drive is "f:" I enter:

mount d f:\ -t cdrom
mount c c:\dos
c:
cd sierra
QG4CD

Save and exit the config file when you are finished.

Now when you click on the Dosbox program icon that you installed to your QFG4 folder it should automatically do all the above commands and load the game for you.

I credit Glenn's Guides @ http://www.glennsguides.com/2010/02/que ... kness.html for this, so thank him.

Hope it works for you.