However nearly all the DOS releases shipped with a corrupted file namely '72.out' HorrorSoft released the game in England, USA and Germany(in English) However the DOS version never saw a VGA release and users had to make do with EGA graphics. Which made it impossible to complete the DOS game due to a nasty crash. Your father is the pastor of your village. Lately Kirben from ScummVM began working on support for this game within the AGOSĮngine in ScummVM. While the original source code was available parts of it were A strange letter from him made you decide to return to your village, only to find out your father is no where to be found, and everyone is being hostile and strange. Written in assembly and needed re-writing. A couple of months ago PN support made it into the SVN trunkĪnd since then the game is supported fully. However after a long search for the fabled HorrorSoft patch ScummVM was unable to fix the crash in the DOS version of the game since the decompression codeĬould not handle the corrupt file. Who was able to provide details of the original uncorrupted '72.out' file, which impressively differed by only Kirben managed to make contact with Alan Bridgman It became evident that this was lost in time. One byte and later that day ScummVM was fitted with a nice workaround for the crash. This is great for users who want to use ScummVM to play the game( who wouldnt :p )īut I thought it might be nice for people who did not wish to use ScummVM and still ran DOS machines or DOSBox. This needs to be applied over the '72.out' file, and only if your vicarage section crashes.Īlthough the patched file will still work with ScummVM, I state here that the patch is ONLY designed so that I created a patch using the IPS patching format as it seems there are clients around for most common OS's Kirben kindly provided me with the details allowing me to create a patch for the file. Users can play through the game under DOS/DOSBox. However if you do not wish to patch the file using this method you can follow the following instructions, using a hex editorĬhange the byte at position 53714(D1D2) from 0x20 to 0x40. The link is dead and scummvm support the game at 50% so gog released it on dosbox.
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