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King's Quest III: To Heir Is Human

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King's Quest III: To Heir Is Human
King's Quest III: To Heir Is Human cover
Developers
Sierra On-Line
Publishers
Retail Sierra On-Line
Digital Activision
Engines
AGI
Release dates
DOS October 1, 1986
Mac OS (Classic) 1988
Windows 3.x 1994
Windows (ScummVM) August 24, 2010[1]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Series King's Quest
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Adventure in Serenia 1982
King's Quest: Quest for the Crown‎ 1984
King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne 1985
King's Quest III: To Heir Is Human 1986
King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella 1988
King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder! 1990
King Graham's Board Game Challenge 1992
King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow 1992
King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride 1994
King's Quest: Mask of Eternity 1998
The Silver Lining (unofficial) 2010
King's Quest (2015) 2015

Warnings

The Windows 3.x version of this game does not work on 64-bit versions of Windows (see Availability for affected versions).

Key points

The manual is required to pass the in-game copy protection (digital versions include it)
Can be run under ScummVM.

General information

Sierra Help Pages - King's Quest III: To Heir Is Human
King's Quest Omnipedia - A huge wiki for the King's Quest series
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions for game series

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Floppy disk check (requires the original floppy in the drive to play)
Prompts for answers from manual, code wheel, etc.
CPC Copy Protection DRM. The game could only be completed by creating spells that had to be learned from the manual.
DOS
Mac OS
Retail
Prompts for answers from manual, code wheel, etc.
King's Quest Collections and The Roberta Williams Anthology.
DOS
Windows 3.x
GOG.com
DRM-free
Bundled with King's Quest: Quest for the Crown and King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne. Pre-packaged with ScummVM
DOSBox version is also available (when using GOG Galaxy).[2]
Windows
Steam
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Comes bundled with all other King's Quest games (excluding King's Quest 8).
Windows
The King's Quest Collection, the collection on Steam, is not properly configured for modern systems[3]
A web browser version is also available.

Essential improvements

King's Quest III Unofficial Remakes

There are two complete and free remakes of the game available. Both of them add new VGA/SVGA style graphics, dialogue, speech, an updated Point-and-Click UI, and a complete soundtrack. Each of them have their own extra features and which one is the best is based on personal taste:

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\RESOURCE.CFG
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/10100/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game>\KQ3SG.*[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/10100/pfx/[Note 2]
These are the default paths used by the game. The save file location can be determined by the user

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud
ScummVM 2.1+ supports cloud saves on third-party cloud storage services. See the ScummVM documentation for details.

Video

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
For DOSBox toggle with Alt+ Enter (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
All speech is text-based.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes CGA, EGA, Hercules, Tandy CGA (4 colour), EGA (16 colour), Hercules (2 colour), Tandy (16 colour). The game also lists VGA, but only because VGA is backwards compatible with EGA
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
64-bit requires a 64-bit build of ScummVM.
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

DOS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 2.11
Processor (CPU) Intel 8088
System memory (RAM) 256 KB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.5 MB
Video card (GPU) CGA, EGA, Hercules, Tandy, VGA
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 30 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible
Mac OS
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU) Motorola 68000
System memory (RAM) 256 KB
Hard disk drive (HDD)


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/10100/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (10100) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References