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The Colonels Bequest
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One verified detail of the day about the game and its history.
The Colonel’s Bequest was released for DOS in November 1989.
The Colonel’s Bequest is one of Sierra’s early adventure games and a good example of the studio’s blend of exploration, dialogue, and careful attention to time and missed clues. Our release is not about reimagining the game, but about making the supported original version easy and reliable to launch. That preserves the feel of the adventure while giving players who already own the original files a straightforward way to revisit it under DOSBox.
Our loader bypasses the protection check in the supported version and adds a useful MT-32 and AdLib sound toggle where available. The protection logic has been adjusted so that the game’s documented randomness is not needlessly affected. To use it, we place LOAD.COM in the installation directory and start the game through it; our release is intended for owners of the original game or its original files, offering a clean legacy fix instead of a manual workaround.
Available versions
Download our release directly or use the available mirror.
Loader v1.0
File security SHA-256 verified · VirusTotal: 0 detections
- File
- colonelsbequest_loader_v1.0.rar
- Size
- 681 KB
- SHA-256
bb5fb4aaf6b32448013b09ca6a4129bd2782046f6e5f899a50a9c7a7dd119651- Integrity check
- The file stored on DOSGAME.AT matches this hash.
- Malware scan
- No detection in the latest VirusTotal report. (63 Engines)
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With the matching keyfile, the waiting period in our loader/trainer is removed. Your purchase also supports our volunteer preservation work.
Optional — this release also works without a keyfile.
Purchase KeyfileKey Features of this Release
A quick overview of what our release fixes, unlocks, or adds when starting and playing the game.
- Bypasses the copy-protection or protection check of the supported original version.
- Offers MT-32 and AdLib sound switching where available.
