Flight of the Amazon Queen FREEWARE

Amazon Queen HERE

go to the download section.

Now, YOU can finally get to play this game, which by all accounts is infuriating and almost impossible to get to work these days on any computer.

Works just fine, right out of the box so to speak, with the ScummVM though.

Hi

If it's a "legit." download then that's really good news for people who've been after this game for ages !!

[I have the original release and it works fine just installed in DOS. I don't have any ScummVM stuff.]

Cheers.

Mad

I do believe it is "legit".

I have the original too, but I can't get it to work at all, and I gather many people have trouble with it - I couldn't even get it to work when I bought it 6 years ago.

Hi again

I now play it in the DOS that comes with Win.98.
And when I first got it, I played it in the DOS that came with Win.95.

It doesn't need EMS as far as I know but I think my son in law did do some Upper and Lower memory tweaking stuff (if those are the correct terms ??) so I just leave it permanently installed as he doesn't live nearby any more to do any re-tweakin'

Cheers.

Mad

So what else do I have to DL from that site to play? SCUMM something or other? What version?
I'm Win98. c

Under release binaries, get the Windows Installer, the top one.

That should do it - then you load up ScummVM, and ADD GAME, navigate to the place where you unzipped the FOTAQ file, select that. Then when you go back in ScummVM, the game should be displayed and you click it and PLAY!!! Woohoo!!!

It's legal. The developers released the code to the Scummm engine people. Similar to the way Revolution made Beneath A Steel sky available and released Lure of the Temptress as freeware.

It's great to see some developers who knowing their game isn't available for retail purchase - make it available to gamers.

Hi

It's great to see some developers who knowing their game isn't available for retail purchase - make it available to gamers .

I couldn't agree more !!



Cheers.

Mad

I downloaded the ScummVM stuff, Flight of the Amazon Queen, and Beneath a Steel Sky. I've only played a few hours, but so far not a single glitch.

To the ScummVM folks and the original game developers that have been so generous, I say THANK YOU! After seeing a review at Mr. Bill's, Flight of the Amazon Queen has been at the top of my BAAG list for years. I was fortunate to get BASS in a "Complete Revolution" package from Software First several years ago (before they went under), and look forward to seeing how this latest version compares. The original had a few bugs and crash problems under Win98.

This is worth a look folks. I know these are some hefty downloads if you don't have broadband, but hey, the price is right. Free!

Albert

Yes, the people behind SCUMMVM are awesome!

I bought FotAQ on Ebay a few months ago, but oh well. It's great it's developers have agreed to make it freeware!

--Erwin

Just a quick question from a computer dummy. I have the game FOAQ but could never get it to run despite the kind and generous help of GBs. If I downloaded this SCUMM thing, could I play the game off my disks? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Confused]" src="confused.gif" />

Anyone know what would give the best image settings in the video prefs. (SCUMM)? I don't regognize any of them. c

Skip it I read the Readme;iimagine that!

Just to let you know I went through the list of graphic sttings and definitely by far the eagle one gave the best graphics!c

When I tried to replay my orginal game,it stated on the back of jewel case that you needed 582k of EMS. When I went into DOS on my old Win98 and typed in MEM I was informed that I had 585k of EMS,but when I tried to play the game in DOS it told me I did not have enough memory.As said this is one fustrating game to get to work

That's the beauty of the ScummVM people - it JUST WORKS - so, there's no need to use your own disks.

You can always get the non-talkie version of you're on dialup - this is quite a bit smaller - 6.7MB - should take you about 30 minutes.

Been trying to play this one for 2 years now (a friend sent it to me for a gift) and couldn't get it to run, trying I don't know how many DOS configurations (Win 98 SE, usually can handle most games). Yesterday I downloaded the latest version of Scummvm and FOTAQ and it ran perfectly!!! Thanks for the info Derman!!!
Happy Gaming All!!!
Bill

Any idea if this requires the most recent version of the SCUMMVM engine (6.0 I think) or if I can run it with the earlier version I downloaded some months ago to play Beneath a Steel Sky?

Cheers,
jasper

You have to download the new one Jasper. Just install it to the same directory you had the older version. then download FOTAQ from the site unless you already have the disks.

TheDerman..I downloaded both the SCUMMVM and the Amazon Queen [short version] and they are both there..but I can't figure out how to "get the game connected with the SCUMMVM" got some instructions for this 'Puter not-so-smart?? Glynn

Ditlihi I'm playing in Win98 not DOS with no problem. c

Glynn - once you download the Amazon Queen file, unzip it to a new folder somewhere.

Then you fire up ScummVM, and select ADD GAME - then navigate to the place you unzipped the Amaon Queen file, and select that.

Then, go back to the main ScummVM screen, and Amazon Queen should be listed - click it, and START.

Hi Derman..well try as I may, I can't get it to work...both the game & Scumm is downloaded and un-zipped, when I click on the Scumm thingy, I get a full window which says "Add Game", which has a window labled A through F.. but there's no way I can get to the game, since the entire screen is taken up by the Scumm window..I must be "dense as a forrest" will try again later, Thanks for your help! Glynn

A through F are your drives - double click whichever drive has the Amazon Queen file, probably C, then keep double clicking the folders on that drive until you get to the file, then click CHOOSE.

Then, at the first ScummVM screen, you should be able to select "Flight of the Amazon Queen" and click START, and well, start.

Hope you get there.

Hi Derman...Thanks! I got there, finally...who would have thought to keep clicking on the "C" after the first time I clicked on it, and it said "empty"?? well....Ya gotta give me credit, if there is one thing I do well, it's messing up downloads!!! Now..one more question, how do I figure out what I am supposed to do, since I downloaded the short version, is there supposed to be text? Thanks again! Glynn

Should be the same game as the other version as I understand it, just without the voices - so there should be text so you know what they're saying.

There should have been an intro, and you should find yourself stuck in a room somewhere - then you just play the game like any other adventure.

Thanks again! It looks like a good game! Glynn

Downloaded and got the game working OK but it's SOOOO SLOOOOW. Every time he takes a step you can see 3 separate movements for each foot and cut scenes take forever. Any ideas on how to speed things up?

Hmmmmm don't know Bristol - how fast is your PC?

Nice and fast and smooth for me.

Hi Bristol...did you check out the "options" ? Not sure if it has one for speedy walking, but you can slow down/speed up the text..worth a shot! Mine works just fine. Glynn

Same here Bristol, running perfectly

Thanks for the help. I went back into options and set graphics for Normal and all the rest as default and the game works fine now.

Now I'm stuck...I can't get "What's his face" to put on the red dress! any clues??

Ok...got unstuck there..now I am in the Jungle! Neat game!! Glynn

Even after I downloaded the newest version of SCUMMVM,I could not get Amazon Queen to run using orginal disk,so I downloaded the talkie version of the game just fine.The original game would only run off the CD disk and you could not install to harddrive tho you could save games on your harddrive,that was probably why I could not get the game to run on orginal disks.I wish SCUMMVM could get one Sierra games to run