Short: Installable Space Quest 1 Author: timok@cs.tut.fi (Timo Kaikumaa) Uploader: timok cc tut fi (Timo Kaikumaa) Type: game/patch Version: 1.0 Requires: OS1+ Architecture: m68k-amigaos In their very first Amiga adventures made during the years 1986 and 1987 Sierra used a somewhat nasty copy protection method. The game disk looked like a standard AmigaDos disk, but on it there was one file (whose name simply consisted of 8 spaces) with a deliberate read/write error. One couldn't execute the game unless the broken file was available. Although this was no problem when playing from the original disk, the unlucky user of more recent days will not be able to install the game on hard disk at all. But the fix is here. This patch will modify the game executable and remove all references to the protected file thus allowing the user to copy all the game files wherever he or she wants to. Also the irritating problem that the game is not able to close its screen upon quitting when using OS 2.04 or newer is corrected. Only one version of the Space Quest 1 is supported, namely one from the year 1987. (There might be another version around compiled one year earlier.) Note that this fix is only for the original Space Quest 1. There are two versions of the patch available! One that only fixes the problems described above, and one that additionally removes the inquiry of the player's name in the beginning of the game. It's rather needless because Space Quests 3 and 4 always use "Roger Wilco" as the name of our Inter-Galactic Hero and professional space janitor!