Add Simon the Sorcerer

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Adding Simon the Sorcerer (1994) (Adventure Soft)

Source Media

• Original English DOS CD-ROM talkie release.
• The source ISO is 181,475,328 bytes with MD5 9fac9022c4fd73e3ec615047421071d9 and SHA-1 da7acfb3e959212248793b17d9c12665b2e65725.
• The disc has one MODE1/2048 data track and no CD-audio tracks. Its volume label is CD.
• This is the 1994 CD-ROM talkie release, not the original 1993 floppy release. The DOS Days release record documents the DOS CD-ROM release separately and lists the same disc contents.

Installation Options

• The primary DOSZ retains all 17 files from the CD unchanged. Gameplay can read the voice, effects, and game data directly from those files, so installed duplicates were not retained.
• The original installer was run once from a read-only D: CD mount into a clean writable C:\SIMON directory. Its default full installation copied SIMON.GME and unpacked the DIGPAK drivers before launching the release sound setup.
• Sound setup auto-detected Sound Blaster 16 at port 220, IRQ 7, and DMA 1. The resulting SOUNDRV.COM is setup-generated configuration and is carried in the DOSC.
• The DOSC launches RUNVGA with /C /1 and explicit paths to SIMON.VOC, EFFECTS.VOC, and SIMON.GME, avoiding the installer during normal startup.

Official Patches

No official patch was applied or found necessary for this CD release.

DOSC Contents

• Auto start
• Release-generated Sound Blaster 16 configuration
• Direct launch from the retained CD files

Installation Variants

The source ISO is included as an installation variant converted to an uncompressed CHD with chdman 0.205. Extracting the CHD reproduces the source ISO byte-for-byte.

Digital Store Variants

No digital-store variant is included. The current GOG and Steam products are the separate 25th Anniversary Edition with Legacy packages and were not used as source media for this entry.

Unofficial Patch Variants

No unofficial patch variant is included.