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
game files wherever he or she wants to. Currently only one version of
King's Quest 1 is supported, namely one from the year 1987 (there might
be another version around made during the year 1986). Also the irritating
problem that the game is not able to close its screen upon quiting when
using OS 2.04 or newer is corrected.

Note that this fix is only for the original King's Quest 1. If you have
problems with other old (original) Sierra games, you can always write to
me at <timok@cs.tut.fi>.

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[generic]                  344     612  56.2% -lh5- b427 Mar 21  1997 KQ1-fix.info
[generic]                 3847    8827  43.6% -lh5- 2ce0 Nov 16  1997 KQ1-fix/KQ1-fix.doc
[generic]                  452     856  52.8% -lh5- 1d05 Jul 27  1997 KQ1-fix/KQ1-fix.doc.info
[generic]                  735    1361  54.0% -lh5- 8473 Nov 16  1997 KQ1-fix/KQ1-fix.readme
[generic]                   74      80  92.5% -lh5- 1791 Jul 26  1997 KQ1-fix/pointer
[generic]                  425     456  93.2% -lh5- d319 Nov 16  1997 KQ1-fix/Sierra.pch
[generic]                 9285   14636  63.4% -lh5- e89d Jul 26  1997 KQ1-fix/spatch
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 Total         7 files   15162   26828  56.5%            Jan 25  1998