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King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow

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King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow cover
Developers
Sierra On-Line
Publishers
Retail Sierra On-Line
Digital Activision
Engines
SCI1.1
Release dates
DOS September 30, 1992
Mac OS (Classic) 1993
Windows 3.x 1993
Windows (ScummVM) February 25, 2010
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Series King's Quest
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King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow guide on StrategyWiki
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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 VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
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
Prompts for answers from manual, code wheel, etc.
DOS
Mac OS
Windows 3.x
GOG.com
DRM-free
Bundled with King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella and King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder!
Pre-packaged with ScummVM
DOSBox version is also available (when using GOG Galaxy).[1]
Windows
Steam
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Comes bundled with all other King's Quest games (excluding King's Quest 8).
Windows
The Steam collection is not properly configured for modern systems[2]

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS
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>\KQ6SG.***[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
For the GOG.com re-release, the C:\ drive is mapped to <path-to-game>

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

In-game options menu
In-game options menu

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
English subtitles can be enabled in combination with voice acting via ScummVM.
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
Can be enabled in combination with voice acting via ScummVM.
French
Floppy version only
German
Floppy version only

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes EGA, MCGA, VGA
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Use ScummVM (a 64-bit build is also available).
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

DOS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 5.0
Processor (CPU) Intel 386 SX
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 MB
Video card (GPU) EGA, MCGA, VGA
Windows 3.x
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 3.0 MME
Processor (CPU) Intel 386
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 MB
Mac OS
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 MB
Video card (GPU) 256 Colours


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