The 7th Guest 1993 CD-ROM
Trilobyte released The 7th Guest on IBM PC MS-DOS in April of 1993. The 7th Guest is notable for its employment of cinematized pre-rendered animations.
The 7th Guest it an historically significant computer game because it helped to popularize the CD-ROM format, FMVs and pre-rendered animated graphics. The other big CD-ROM release of the early 1990s was Origin Systems' Wing Commander 3 of 1994.
The 7th Guest is an interactive movie adventure game designed and programmed by Graeme Devine for MS-DOS 5.0 with MSCDEX 2.2.
In 7th Guest players explore a 22-room haunted mansion via point-and-click hardware mouse cursor. Puzzle-solving is also employed.
The 7th Guest requires an i80386DX-33 MHz CPU, 2 megs of RAM, 512K vRAM, FM/PCM sound card and 150K per sec. transfer rate CD-ROM drive, but 486SX-20 MHz, 4 megs of RAM and 300K per sec. drive with <300 ms access time is recommended, along with a local bus video card with 1 meg of vRAM and 16-bit PCM sound card.
The 7th Guest displays in 256-color SVGA 640x480, but its pre-rendered drawspace is only 640x320. The 7th Guest features 10 megs of audio and 620 megs of pre-rendered animated graphics.
The 7th Guest was distributed on 2x CD-ROM and extracts and installs to hard disk drive via The 7th Guest Setup and Installation Program. The install size is 5 megs and consists of 104 files. If the CD-ROM files are copied to the hard disk drive, the install size becomes 630 megs.
The 7th Guest supports music via Pro Audio Studio 16, Pro Audio Spectrum Plus/16, Pro Audio Spectrum, Sound Blaster ASP 16, Sound Blaster Pro 1, Sound Blaster Pro 2, Sound Blaster or compatibles, General MIDI, Roland MT-32/LAPC-1, AdLib Gold, AdLib, Aria, Tandy Sensation and Microsoft Windows Sound System.
The 7th Guest supports digitized speech audio and sound effects via Pro Audio Studio 16, Pro Audio Spectrum Plus/16, Pro Audio Spectrum, Sound Blaster ASP 16, Sound Blaster Pro 1, Sound Blaster Pro 2, Sound Blaster or compatibles, AdLib Gold, Aria, Tandy Sensation, ATI Stereo Effects, Covox Sound Master II and Microsoft Windows Sound System.
For example, one can run The 7th Guest with Roland MT-32 music and Sound Blaster ASP 16 digitized speech and sound effects.
- The 7th Guest Manual: 41 pages.
- The 7th Guest: The Stauf Files: 20 pages.
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