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King's Quest (1987)

According to Nerdly Pleasures, the 1987 releases of King’s Quest were incremental improvements on November 1986 release, which added EGA and hard disk support.

The PCjs disk images preserve the Copy-Protection that the game used, and PCx86 successfully passes the game’s copy-protection test. The IBM PC AT below has diskette King's Quest (1987-05-05 #1) loaded in drive B:, ready to be installed on drive C:.

[PCjs Machine "ibm5170-kq1"]

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King's Quest Artwork

Directory of King’s Quest (1987-05-05 #1)

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

INSTALLH BAT      1214   5-05-87   1:01p
_INSTALL BAT       764   5-05-87   1:01p
MAKEPATH COM        74   4-22-87  12:05p
AGIDATA  OVL      7680   5-01-87   8:11a
CGA_GRAF OVL      1024   5-01-87   8:11a
EGA_GRAF OVL      1024   5-01-87   8:11a
JR_GRAF  OVL       512   5-01-87   8:11a
HGC_GRAF OVL      1536   5-01-87   8:11a
IBM_OBJS OVL       512   5-01-87   8:11a
HGC_OBJS OVL      1024   5-01-87   8:11a
CPC      COM*     8048   9-19-85   4:47p
AGI              38400   5-05-87   1:01p
SIERRA   COM      2944   5-05-87   1:01p
HGC_FONT          3072   1-26-87   3:47p
OBJECT             331   4-09-87  11:45p
WORDS    TOK      3144   3-27-87  11:15a
LOGDIR             315   5-05-87   9:02a
PICDIR             255   5-05-87   9:02a
SNDDIR             144   5-05-87   9:02a
VIEWDIR            432   5-05-87   9:02a
VOL      0       48472   5-05-87   9:01a
VOL      1      200630   5-05-87   9:01a
_KQ1     BAT        39   4-07-87   2:04p
       23 file(s)     321590 bytes
                       24576 bytes free

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Directory of King’s Quest (1987-05-05 #2)

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

VOL      0       46735  11-13-86  11:10a
VOL      2       90501  11-13-86  11:12a
OBJECT             339  10-09-86   1:45p
        3 file(s)     137575 bytes
                      223232 bytes free

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Directory of King’s Quest (1987-12-01 #1)

 Volume in drive A is KQ1 DISK 1
 Directory of A:\

CPC      COM*     8048   9-19-85   4:47p
INSTALLH BAT      1247  12-01-87  12:11p
_INSTALL BAT       748  12-01-87  12:11p
SIERRA   COM      3121  12-01-87  12:11p
AGI              39424  12-01-87  12:12p
AGIDATA  OVL      8192  12-01-87   8:49a
CGA_GRAF OVL      1024  12-01-87   8:48a
JR_GRAF  OVL       512  12-01-87   8:48a
EGA_GRAF OVL      1024  12-01-87   8:48a
HGC_GRAF OVL      1536  12-01-87   8:48a
VG_GRAF  OVL       512  12-01-87   8:48a
IBM_OBJS OVL       512  12-01-87   8:48a
HGC_OBJS OVL      1024  12-01-87   8:48a
MAKEPATH COM        74   4-22-87  12:05p
HGC_FONT          3072   1-26-87   3:47p
_KQ1     BAT        39   4-07-87   2:04p
OBJECT             331   4-09-87  11:45p
WORDS    TOK      3144   3-27-87  11:15a
LOGDIR             315   5-05-87   9:02a
PICDIR             255   5-05-87   9:02a
SNDDIR             144   5-05-87   9:02a
VIEWDIR            432   5-05-87   9:02a
VOL      0       48472   5-05-87   9:01a
VOL      1      200630   5-05-87   9:01a
KQ101078 QA         12   1-01-80  12:50a
       25 file(s)     323844 bytes
                       20480 bytes free

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Directory of King’s Quest (1987-12-01 #2)

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

VOL      0       48472   5-05-87   9:01a
VOL      2       90891   5-05-87   9:02a
OBJECT             331   4-09-87  11:45p
KQ101078 QA         12   1-01-80  12:50a
        4 file(s)     139706 bytes
                      220160 bytes free

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