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About 3.5" disk 1 of King's Quest V (version 0.62 / VGA)

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I've got package of King's Quest V (version 0.62 / VGA).
All disks are 3.5" HD format (8EA)
But a few of disk 1 is damaged and RESOURCE.CFG is written.

This is file list by DIR.



Volume in drive A has no label
Directory of A:\

SIERRA EXE 57899 11-09-90 5:51p
VGA320 DRV 4528 12-26-90 12:09p
STD DRV 1448 11-02-90 4:26p
MT32 DRV 1989 11-02-90 4:26p
SNDBLAST DRV 9672 11-02-90 4:27p
TANDY DRV 4430 11-02-90 4:26p
TANDY3V DRV 3893 11-02-90 4:26p
ADL DRV 7976 11-02-90 4:27p
CMS DRV 3734 11-02-90 4:27p
IBMPS1 DRV 4354 11-02-90 4:27p
IBMKBD DRV 449 7-06-90 2:48p
TANDYKBD DRV 476 7-06-90 2:48p
JOYSTICK DRV 607 10-12-90 5:49p
INSTALL EXE 31688 2-13-91 7:11a
INSTALL HLP 6665 1-30-91 9:25a
FONT 000 1782 10-16-88 9:50p
VOCAB 913 2449 8-01-90 10:57p
VOCAB 996 354 1-30-91 3:52p
VOCAB 999 1113 6-27-90 5:45p
VOCAB 994 112 1-30-91 3:44p
VOCAB 998 1229 8-09-88 9:37p
VOCAB 995 609 8-11-88 2:18p
VOCAB 997 4384 1-30-91 3:41p
KQ5 BAT 79 11-05-90 11:08a
KQ52 BAT 72 11-05-90 11:09a
KQ53 BAT 89 11-05-90 11:09a
KQ54 BAT 76 11-05-90 11:09a
KQ55 BAT 69 11-05-90 11:10a
KQ56 BAT 86 11-05-90 11:10a
README 771 12-28-90 7:20p
VERSION 11 1-25-91 3:16p
WHAT EXE 2156 10-25-90 10:09a
RESOURCE 000 276351 1-30-91 4:48p
RESOURCE MAP 8004 1-30-91 5:23p
INSTALL SCR 3776 2-20-91 11:41a
35 File(s) 1004544 bytes free


Can anyone send diskimage of disk 1 by PM?
(Remember that RESOURCE.CFG must Not be written on disk 1.)
 
I'll look around and see what I have. v0.62 isn't ringing a bell, but I know that I've multiple version numbers on the game - might get lucky?
 
I have an image of Disk 1, 0.62 version, but it is for a 1.2MB disk. The files are identical to your listing.

Oh, and whether RESOURCE.CFG is present or not makes not a whit of difference. If the file does not exist, the game's installer will create or modify it on the disk once you run the install. Delete it if it makes you feel better.
 
>I have an image of Disk 1, 0.62 version, but it is for a 1.2MB disk. The files are identical to your listing.

>Oh, and whether RESOURCE.CFG is present or not makes not a whit of difference. If the file does not exist, the game's installer will create or modify it on the disk once you run the install. Delete it if it makes you feel >better.

I only want 3.5" version of diskimage (disk 1)
I think RESOURCE.CFG should not exist on disk 1.
 
I have looked at many, many images of the first disk of Sierra SCI games, and they virtually all have RESOURCE.CFG on them. If you want a pristine image, eBay's prices for the game are very reasonable, but virtually all of them would have been played at some point and the file will be on the floppy.
 
I bought 3.5" diskette version of this. (VGA version 062)
Unfortunately disk 1 is modified. (A few of sectors are unreadable.)
It is not so easy to recover this as factory default, hehehe.
 
Are any other files unreadable or unable to be properly copied from the disk?

It sounds like whomever last installed it used a drive with a defect that manifested itself when writing to disk. Dirty or out of alignment head perhaps. If they installed the game using this bad drive, the errors would become apparent when RESOURCE.CFG was written.

Obviously, you are not going to get anywhere with the original disk. What I would to get to factory default is to make an image of disk 2 (or any other disk) and write that image back to a formatted blank disk. Delete the file on disk 2 and then copy over all the files from disk 1 except for RESOURCE.CFG. Make sure the date and time stamps are preserved. I sincerely doubt that KQ5 uses disk labels. When finished you will have a disk that is imperceptible from the factory default.
 
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