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Posted February 16, 2017
Night at the museum.


<span class="bold">The Dagger of Amon Ra</span>, Laura Bow's sophomore adventure as an intrepid journalist/crime-solver, is now available, DRM-free on GOG.com!

A year after dealing with the Colonel's Bequest, Laura attempts to take a bite out of The Big Apple when assigned a story about the prized Egyptian dagger that just became part of the Leyendecker Museum's collection. Of course, the night of the grand opening will be riddled with bloody murder, shocked aristocrats, and many many clues.
Posted February 17, 2017
I have so many great memories of this game. It was the first adventure game I completed without a walkthrough, when I was 11.
Posted February 17, 2017
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lostwolfe: some of their stuff is SUPER weird [inca comes to mind.]
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tfishell: Ha ha, I saw this video just last week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Deqzy_tifRU
i did a lp of it a couple of years back.
i...still am blown away by how bizarre the whole experience is. to this day. [plus, that difficulty curve is obscene.]
Posted February 17, 2017
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keviny01: It does not have audio speech, only audio sound f/x and music. One of the screenshots shows on-screen text for the dialog. As you may know, only the non-speech version has on-screen text for dialog. The speech version doesn't. The two versions used to be sold as two separate games. The Activation people may not even know there is a speech version. It is pure laziness not to dig up both versions. No surprise here.
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Baggins: BTW you are way off the mark. Only the second game had speech.

This version includes the CD-speech version, look at the size of the game, just under 300 megabytes. There is a toggle in the game to switch between speech or no speech and/or both IIRC though.
Now I'm confused...

I'm asking about the second game, The Dagger of Amon Ra, as only that is labeled as "Audio and text: English" on GOG. The first one is labeled as "Text only: English", so I assume it has no voice over.

Can anyone who already has played the GOG version of the second game confirm if it has voice support or not?
Post edited February 17, 2017 by eiii
Posted February 17, 2017
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Baggins: BTW you are way off the mark. Only the second game had speech.

This version includes the CD-speech version, look at the size of the game, just under 300 megabytes. There is a toggle in the game to switch between speech or no speech and/or both IIRC though.
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eiii: Now I'm confused...

I'm asking about the second game, The Dagger of Amon Ra, as only that is labeled as "Audio and text: English" on GOG. The first one is labeled as "Text only: English", so I assume it has no voice over.

Can anyone who already has played the GOG version of the second game confirm if it has voice support or not?
The Dagger of Amon Ra has actual speech as it's the CD-ROM version :)
Posted February 17, 2017
Are the DOS executable files included, like with Last Crusade?

That would be awesome, then I can play it on my real DOS machine :D
Posted February 17, 2017
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PhilsComputerLab: Are the DOS executable files included, like with Last Crusade?
It do work in the dosbox, I just tested it. So does the Colonel's Bequest. :-)
Posted February 18, 2017
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JudasIscariot: The Dagger of Amon Ra has actual speech as it's the CD-ROM version :)
Thanks for confirmation!
Posted February 18, 2017
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Erich_Zann: Uh ? Woodruff is a french game. Same designer as Gobliiins. Awesome voiceovers, too.
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F4LL0UT: Not trying to take any credit away from the French game industry but as lostwolfe pointed out, Coktelvision was bought by Sierra the year Goblins 3 was released. Woodruff was part of Sierra's catalogue all along and I actually got my copy from a "gaming mag" (rather a glorified brochure, really) called Best of Sierra which was distributed in Germany for several years and always included one to three Sierra titles which were past their shelf life. In terms of licensing and digging up classics it's a Sierra title as far as I'm concerned.
Oh, I'm not arguing with any of that, matters of publishers & ownership not being stuff I'm overly interested with anyway.
It was just the point of the english version not being the original one, but a translation. They could have been owned by Konami for all I care.

Now someone more knowledgeable than me may point out that Tramis, Gilhodes & co in fact wrote the damn thing in english first & the french version is actually a translation, and I'm back under my rock. Haha.
Post edited February 18, 2017 by Erich_Zann
Posted February 18, 2017
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Klumpen0815: I've got Hunter Hunted, 3D Ultra Minigolf, Woodruff and a few other games that still didn't make it to GOG from those mags, hopefully they'll arrive here some day.
Haha, I always felt like I was the only one who even knew about Best of Sierra. I actually own all 16 issues, from the one that came with Gabriel Knight and Earthsiege up to the final one that came with King's Quest VIII.

Personally I can't praise Hunter Hunted enough. It may be quirky as heck but it's also one of the most fun and original platform games I've ever played, especially in splitscreen. Hoping very much that it will come here eventually. Not to mention Lode Runner: The Legend Returns which is probably Lode Runner's best incarnation of all time (although apparently there was an improved version titled Lode Runner Online which I've never played).
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Erich_Zann: Oh, I'm not arguing with any of that, matters of publishers & ownership not being stuff I'm overly interested with anyway.
It was just the point of the english version not being the original one, but a translation.
Ah, sorry, my mistake.

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Erich_Zann: Now someone more knowledgeable than me may point out that Tramis, Gilhodes & co in fact wrote the damn thing in english first & the french version is actually a translation, and I'm back under my rock. Haha.
Lol, on one hand developers would usually first write their games in their own language back then, then again, few studios were owned by an American powerhouse like Sierra. I'd say your odds are 50:50. :D
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JudasIscariot: The Dagger of Amon Ra has actual speech as it's the CD-ROM version :)
Awesome! I didn't even know that there was a talkie version of Dagger of Amon Ra. My version, despite being distributed on CD, sadly came without speech. The setup program allowed choosing a device that would be used for voices but I figured that that was just an oversight because the game used the same setup program as many other Sierra titles at the time. It was the same with Freddy Pharkas and only now I see that that game also had a version with voice overs. God dammit, #ruinedchildhood.
Post edited February 18, 2017 by F4LL0UT
Posted February 18, 2017
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PhilsComputerLab: Are the DOS executable files included, like with Last Crusade?

That would be awesome, then I can play it on my real DOS machine :D
you have a real DOS machine ?
do you have a real win3x machine aswell?
then you could run Bermuda Syndrome .

I bought Bermuda Syndrome the minute i saw it in our shops (netherlands) but it wont run on windows starting from Vista.

The game does run on:

Windows 3.1, 95, 98, ME, XP and Vista 32. In other words, every other older version of Windows.

People who want to play this game but are running Linux or Mac OS X need not despair. You could just use DOSBox, install Windows 3.1 and play it that way.

But i paid for it ( 49-79 guilders back then )and i wanted to play it .............
chances it will arrive here are extremely small but now i can at least play my game i paid good money for.

So using the DOS box and the old win3.x filemanager it works, i dont know if the game will be playable through the end cause on the original windows it already had at least one bug : when the girl gets taken away by a pteradactyle
it gets trick somehow you have to free her and thats where the game crashes.

Anyway i can try it now cause i got it to work (googled)

Touche Adventure of the 5th musketeer works with scummMV , i also bought that game when it arrived in the shops on cd, its a weird adventure but a good one, would fit very nice on GoG i guess, but until then i will have to play it in a complicated way.
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Post edited February 18, 2017 by gamesfreak64
Posted February 18, 2017
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PhilsComputerLab: Are the DOS executable files included, like with Last Crusade?

That would be awesome, then I can play it on my real DOS machine :D
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gamesfreak64: you have a real DOS machine ?
do you have a real win3x machine aswell?
then you could run Bermuda Syndrome .

I bought Bermuda Syndrome the minute i saw it in our shops (netherlands) but it wont run on windows starting from Vista.
Bermuda Syndrome has been OpenSourced a while ago and can be made to run anywhere without emulation:
https://github.com/cyxx/bermuda
http://cyxdown.free.fr/bs/

It's a great but very much unforgiving game with good visuals.
Post edited February 18, 2017 by Klumpen0815
Posted February 19, 2017
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Klumpen0815: I've got Hunter Hunted, 3D Ultra Minigolf, Woodruff and a few other games that still didn't make it to GOG from those mags, hopefully they'll arrive here some day.
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F4LL0UT: Haha, I always felt like I was the only one who even knew about Best of Sierra. I actually own all 16 issues, from the one that came with Gabriel Knight and Earthsiege up to the final one that came with King's Quest VIII.

Personally I can't praise Hunter Hunted enough. It may be quirky as heck but it's also one of the most fun and original platform games I've ever played, especially in splitscreen. Hoping very much that it will come here eventually. Not to mention Lode Runner: The Legend Returns which is probably Lode Runner's best incarnation of all time (although apparently there was an improved version titled Lode Runner Online which I've never played).
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Erich_Zann: Oh, I'm not arguing with any of that, matters of publishers & ownership not being stuff I'm overly interested with anyway.
It was just the point of the english version not being the original one, but a translation.
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F4LL0UT: Ah, sorry, my mistake.

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Erich_Zann: Now someone more knowledgeable than me may point out that Tramis, Gilhodes & co in fact wrote the damn thing in english first & the french version is actually a translation, and I'm back under my rock. Haha.
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F4LL0UT: Lol, on one hand developers would usually first write their games in their own language back then, then again, few studios were owned by an American powerhouse like Sierra. I'd say your odds are 50:50. :D
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JudasIscariot: The Dagger of Amon Ra has actual speech as it's the CD-ROM version :)
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F4LL0UT: Awesome! I didn't even know that there was a talkie version of Dagger of Amon Ra. My version, despite being distributed on CD, sadly came without speech. The setup program allowed choosing a device that would be used for voices but I figured that that was just an oversight because the game used the same setup program as many other Sierra titles at the time. It was the same with Freddy Pharkas and only now I see that that game also had a version with voice overs. God dammit, #ruinedchildhood.
Yeah, in case you don't hear speech in the game when you first start it up, open the in-game options and change everything there. The good thing is that you can have both text and speech at the same time.
Posted February 19, 2017
At first I wanted to pick just one Laura's game today but then I said to myself: to hell with it....And picked them both :-D
Post edited February 19, 2017 by tburger
Posted February 20, 2017
I have a terrible story about this game.

Back in the day, I occasionally saw a woman romantically. I hadn't seen her in a year or two and she invited me over.

She happened to have this game playing on her PC, and I started playing it. For a long time. The evening went on while I played and she sat in the other room until it was time to go home.

I never saw her again.
Post edited February 20, 2017 by Craig234
Posted February 20, 2017
The most recent sierra classics are some what over priced, but I'll buy just this one to vote with my wallet and support such release.

Please follow up with the Man-hunters, The Eco-quests, Conquests and especially the mixed upped (I really want to play these with my nieces.) And please bundle and price them reasonable.
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