Giveaway - Gabriel Knight : Sins of the Fathers

*stepurhan* · 08-26-2006, 12:59 AM

St George's Books. Home, sweet, home.

At the friendly neighbourhood voodoo shop.

Chatting with Grace

The classic first game in the series A must-have for the serious AGer.

Gabriel Knight, womaniser, struggling author and bookshop owner is investigating the local "Voodoo Murders" for his new book. Little does hw know his ancestry is about to catch up with him.

Check out the AG review

Up for grabs is the Sierra Originals CD edition. Being the CD version you not only have both the DOS and Windows versions of the gaem but, more importantly, the fully voiced soundtrack.

For XP users I have successfully run the game using DOSBOX and the Windows XP patch (check out the Technical Requests forum for hints on this) and this CD seems to run OK under both. However, I've only played a couple of opeining scenes so I can't guarantee long-term stability. On the other hand, this is a freebie so what have you got to lose.

Barring unforeseen problems I'm aiming to make the draw around noon Monday (UK time) so you've got about 50 hours to put your name up. Some suitably random method will be applied to select the winner.

Best of luck everyone.

Jelena · 08-26-2006, 01:09 AM

Count me in. First time to sign up for a giveaway.

I've heard so much about the Gabriel Knight games to make me interested.

custard · 08-26-2006, 01:13 AM

Count me in, posting it would be simple since i'm also in the south of england

Never played it ¬¬

HeinzHarald · 08-26-2006, 01:14 AM

I just wanted to say that you don't need to use Dosbox with XP. You can use this installer instead:
http://vogons.zetafleet.com/gkpatches/

Worked for me.

Erwin_Br · 08-26-2006, 01:20 AM

I'm in, too!

It's the only GK game I never played.

--Erwin

*stepurhan* · 08-26-2006, 01:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HeinzHarald

I just wanted to say that you don't need to use Dosbox with XP. You can use this installer instead:
http://vogons.zetafleet.com/gkpatches/

Worked for me.

I think that's the thing I referred to as an XP patch. I'm sure I saw a warning about there still being potential instability issues under XP (XP being a funny beast) but I can't locate that at the moment. Thanks for posting the link though. It's good to have that to hand for any eventual winner.

I tried it on both because there is s slightly different look to the two versions and there are some people who prefer DOS. (I know I always go on about how great it was and kids today not knowing they're born

)

HeinzHarald · 08-26-2006, 01:33 AM

Ah. I didn't realize that you were referring to two different ways of running the game.

Karmillo · 08-26-2006, 01:45 AM

OOOH! Sign me up!

Great of you to do this, and Im sure you have no trouble finding someone who wants it unlike me with that half life

wilco · 08-26-2006, 02:14 AM

Count me in, please. I never really played a Gabriel Knight...

Tobbe · 08-26-2006, 02:38 AM

Count me in too!

I Love Cookiemonster · 08-26-2006, 02:57 AM

Me Me Me Me!!!!!!!!

I would love to play this game but i can't get it anywere

Koypiout · 08-26-2006, 03:36 AM

Count me in !

Mordalles · 08-26-2006, 04:30 AM

again, very generous thing to do! i'll sign up, but not sure if it'll help, i live in africa.

Lucien21 · 08-26-2006, 04:46 AM

Very Generous.

Count me in.

RLacey · 08-26-2006, 05:16 AM

The French version is better

.

TheGreyMatter · 08-26-2006, 05:57 AM

count me in

fajerkaos · 08-26-2006, 06:52 AM

i have answered on three threads the last 6 weeks, and two of them have been giveaways.
my timing is better then perfect

.

BTW: i´d love to test this so please count me in too

Dasilva · 08-26-2006, 06:57 AM

end up getting the first GK. Count me in, please. Thank you!

DREAMWEB · 08-26-2006, 07:35 AM

Ho! count me too!!

the gnome · 08-26-2006, 07:38 AM

Me too, me too, oh most benevolent one!

08-26-2006, 12:59 AM	#1
stepurhan Freeware Co-ordinator Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: South East England. Posts: 7,309	Giveaway - Gabriel Knight : Sins of the Fathers St George's Books. Home, sweet, home. At the friendly neighbourhood voodoo shop. Chatting with Grace The classic first game in the series A must-have for the serious AGer. Gabriel Knight, womaniser, struggling author and bookshop owner is investigating the local "Voodoo Murders" for his new book. Little does hw know his ancestry is about to catch up with him. Check out the AG review Up for grabs is the Sierra Originals CD edition. Being the CD version you not only have both the DOS and Windows versions of the gaem but, more importantly, the fully voiced soundtrack. For XP users I have successfully run the game using DOSBOX and the Windows XP patch (check out the Technical Requests forum for hints on this) and this CD seems to run OK under both. However, I've only played a couple of opeining scenes so I can't guarantee long-term stability. On the other hand, this is a freebie so what have you got to lose. Barring unforeseen problems I'm aiming to make the draw around noon Monday (UK time) so you've got about 50 hours to put your name up. Some suitably random method will be applied to select the winner. Best of luck everyone. Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ No Nonsense Nonsonnets #43 Cold Topic A thread most controversial, that’s what I want to start Full of impassioned arguments, of posting from the heart And for this stimulation all will be thankful to me On come on everybody it won’t work if you agree

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HeinzHarald Bogart incarnate Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Sweden, Skåne Posts: 130	I just wanted to say that you don't need to use Dosbox with XP. You can use this installer instead: http://vogons.zetafleet.com/gkpatches/ Worked for me. Share Share this post on Twitter

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