unixdude

Oh, and when Roger's feet hit the ground, I do hear a thud.

What's sad is that I did not play all of the games as a kid. I had them, but never finished them. In the last few years, I have started playing them all, and a year or so ago I finished SQ3. It has taken me this long to decide to post and figure out why the speech wasn't working in SQ4. :) And, my kids are ages 3 and 5, which might be too young for SQ4.

It was the RESOURCE.CFG file. The directories were incorrect: it was pointing to "C:\SIERRA\SQ4" as the "directory" and "patchdir," and it was pointing to "D:\sq4" as the "audio" dir. Correcting those to all be "C:\" fixed the problem. My kids, who are excited to play the game with me will be glad to learn of this development. And, in the intro, the alien melts into his vomit. :) Because I had it set to "display mode" of "speech," I wasn't seeing the text boxes either.

Wow, thanks for the quick reply. How can I confirm which sound effects I'm hearing? Sorry if that's a lame question, I just don't know. :) I'm pretty sure it's the CD-ROM version, because when I launch it in Boxer, the cursor momentarily switches to an icon of a CD. Now, it is very possible that I didn't copy all of the files I needed to run this in Boxer/DOSBox without the CD. Do you by chance know what files I should check for, to ensure that i have them all? I see a 4.9MB RESOURCE.000 file and a 161MB RESOURCE.AUD file, among others. DOSBox 0.74 does the same thing as Boxer. I have INSTALL.EXE configured with a Music setting of "Sound Blaster / AdLib Card" and an Audio setting of "SoundBlaster." I have the game configured with a Display Mode of "Speech." Thanks so much for the help!

Hi, all. I have started playing Space Quest again in Boxer on my Mac, and I'm having a configuration issue. I'm trying to configure it so that I hear the voice, but all I can hear is the sound effects. Does anyone know of a fix or the correct configuration to get the voice as well? I've tried several patches I found at sierrahelp.com and I've tried every audio option in INSTALL.EXE but nothing I have tried has allowed me to hear the voice. If it matters, I think the Space Quest collection I have is the one released by Vivendi Universal. Thanks for any help you can provide.