Police Quest - In Pursuit of the Death Angel VGA

[Tom Henrik]

Feel free to comment and discuss this game here. Also, if you have any useful tips or tricks don't hesitate to share them with the others! Thanks!

Review (http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/171)

[Spaceball]

At the beginning the game seems to stuck. I have the Problem that I drive around and nothing happens. The Walktroughs says that I have to drive around until I got a call but 30min??

cu, Spaceball

[Guest_huh]

when my game starts up i get message error reading registry and i know it doesnt work on xp but there is a way to get it working and i wondered if anyone knows how to do this, maybe there is a site with drivers or summat.......

[Tom Henrik]

Why do you want to go to all the trouble of getting drivers and stuff, when the game runs perfect in DOSBox? ;)

[daveyg]

okay i got to my back-up at driving/stolen car section when the game ends on me and says out of handles. whats up with that?

[Guest]

Does the game have speech? Because I get a message that my audio files fail to initialize when i start the game.

[Tuttle]

To fix the audio thing, run it in DOSBox. If you're already doing that, just give it less cycles.

[Tycho]

Originally posted by Tuttle@Jan 28 2005, 10:58 PM
To fix the audio thing, run it in DOSBox. If you're already doing that, just give it less cycles.
Thanks! :)

[Guest]

In order to download the right patch to fix the freeze after the park scene, is this the diskette version or the CD version?

[Tuttle]

The disk version. You shouldn't need to download the patches though -- there are two zip files included within the download from this site that contain patches. Just grab any .hep, .scr and .voc files out of those two zip files and drop them into the Police Quest directory (don't bother with the install script in the Bert one).

[Ryan]

what do i type in dosbox that will run or install police quest?

[Guest]

DOSBox... (http://www.abandonia.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2696)

[Ryan]

No I mean what is the command prompt or whatever. I ahve the police quest folder on my c:\ and then I switched dosbox over to c:\ but the command wont work... what am i missing?

[rabadi]

I am not sure I get your question, but as far as the executables go, look for files with .bat or .exe extensions. Chances are you should run one of these in DOSBox.

[79ta]

Does the game have speech? Because I get a message that my audio files fail to initialize when i start the game.


i get this as well, i am running it in dos 7.1 though, not xp. perhaps my audio drivers? sound/music works fine, however no speech.

[MaxPower]

I downloaded DOSbox on the previous posters' advice to play this game..

Originally, I tried to install the game, mounting drives as A: and C: in a vain attempt to install the game as I installed others like it in the mid 90's.

Don't do that..

Just run the game after dearchiving. It will make life a lot less painful ;) The sounds work fine without installing the game, much to my amazed disbelief.

And, as the previous posters noted, copy the .voc and .scr files from the archives in teh patches dir into the game dir (folder), and it should work fine (so they say, I'm not far enough into it to know).

[Conrad]

Hi,my problem is,that i can't open up my locker,could you please help me? I need the combination,and it is a download,the code of the locker should be in the Manual...but I haven't got one... :help:

[Tuttle]

If you download the game from this site, it includes a file called "PQ1 VGA Codes.txt".

[RAQUEL]

DO I JUST COPY AND PASTE THE FILES REQUIRED FROM THE PATCH TO SORT OUT THE BERT PROBLEM - COS I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH IT, HAVE COPIED IT TO THE "SCHIDHUV" APPLICATION, BUT IT DOESN'T WORK.
??

HELP!

[Sebbe]

:ok: A fun thing is that in the café after the accident, there is a typing miss in the speech.

[Harley Glossop]

i have played this game before but not the vga version and i loved it and the vga version seems so much better. But i cant find any links to download it.

[A. J. Raffles]

Originally posted by Harley Glossop@May 29 2005, 08:26 AM
i have played this game before but not the vga version and i loved it and the vga version seems so much better. But i cant find any links to download it.
Can't help you there, I'm afraid. The game's ESA-protected.

[Harley glossop]

Everyone else seems to have downloaded it from this site though

[Strobe]

Originally posted by Harley glossop@May 29 2005, 10:27 AM
Everyone else seems to have downloaded it from this site though
yes, but that was BEFORE we got trouble with the ESA, which happened about two
weeks ago. now, we can't offer this game anymore....

[Bigbang]

By the way I played Police Quest 3 a long time ago, on BIG floppy disks, and just loved the game... now I downloaded PQ 1 in VGA and just got assigned to the narcotics!... its very similar to PQ 3 (well in VGA). Its fun to see that you actually learn from these games, after going throught one of them you just get good at knowing police procedures to use for the other episodes. (dont forget to read rights!... these scums still have rights!)

Anyway happy playing, as for me I've got a heavy narcotic investigation to run!


*Link removed*

-Regards Tom

[A. J. Raffles]

Erm, does that site have ESA permission to host the games? Because if it doesn't, you'll have to remove the link...

[Tom Henrik]

Originally posted by A. J. Raffles@Jun 10 2005, 09:29 AM
Erm, does that site have ESA permission to host the games? Because if it doesn't, you'll have to remove the link...
No they didn't.

[Guest]

where i can find PQ 1 VGA to download
PLEASE TELL ME! :help:

[A. J. Raffles]

Originally posted by Guest@Jun 22 2005, 07:28 PM
where i can find PQ 1 VGA to download
PLEASE TELL ME! :help:
No. Sorry, but no.

[Banteel]

When I run PQ.BAT through D-Fend it says:
Please insert Startup Disk in drive C: and press ENTER.

Anyone know the Label of the startup disk? or have any fixes?

[Guest]

Man that's a shame... luckily there are P2P's

[Guest]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(79ta @ Mar 23 2005, 06:59 AM) 83640</div>
Does the game have speech? Because I get a message that my audio files fail to initialize when i start the game.[/b]


i get this as well, i am running it in dos 7.1 though, not xp. perhaps my audio drivers? sound/music works fine, however no speech.
[/b]

I really fail to understand you peeps... why sweating blood trying to get the game to run naturally (on real dos) when it runs marvelously on DosBox , plus with a smooth beautiful openGl filter to soften the GFX ?

just install the program, open Dosbox.conf in the directory and do 2 adjustments... one in output line and set Opengl , one browsing all the way down the file where it says [autoexec] , you simply gotta tell the program where the directory with your old games is , and if you want, you can add the cdrom too.

Mount C C:\Oldgames
mount D D:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -ioctl

Piece of cake

[howmanymegs]

Hi,

I dont know if anyone is still viewing this thread.....

I bought the XP version of Police Quest collection and played the first one nearly to the end but I'm in Bains' apartment and I cant find the phone in order to get the room number to give to backup. I know this sounds crazy. All of the walkthroughs say it is near the bar. I can't find anything resembling a phone on or near the bar. I've clicked the hand and eye on everything. Any ideas? Explicit instructions would be appreciated.

(I never played the VGA originally, just the EGA).

[vigilantevil]

Hi

its been a hile since i have been using DOsBox but to my surprise I get this Error every time I try to run PQ.EXE or BAT

Please insert Startup Disk in drive C: and press ENTER.

Anyone know why is this executing the install feature when I have all the files in same directory?

need help here :)

V

[The Fifth Horseman]

Is the game path correctly configured? What about sound?

[vigilantevil]

thanks for ur effort & time 5th Horseman, I have reinstalled every thing all the files and its working like charm now, looks like i messed up earlier with the install.

It's all fixed up & running :)

Thank you!

V

[Romeo_Dante]

hi there...

I feel like a dummy asking this, but it seems that I can't download this game because the 'download this game' icon does not appear. Instead there is a 'Entertainment Software Assocation NO 90!' icon, which doesn't download the game...
Really unfortunate, because I have been playing this game a lot during my youth...So it's like nostalgie to play it again! :)

Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks...