January 24, 1998 Dear Adventurer, Welcome to the ninth edition of the Famous Adventurer's Correspondence School! The official Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire Soundtrack/Sneak Peek Demo has been released. Now we can concentrate on delivering what we feel will be the greatest rpg/adventure game ever made. Some reports complaining about CD-ROM drives unable to read the demo, random crashes and the just new to my ears 'error 2' are trickling in but over all it appears to be working well. If you have any problems with the demo try our support button at http://wwww.qg5.com. This is a direct link to Technical Support via the web. Though we tried to make the demo as clean as possible the deadline forced us to hold some of the fixes for the full product. And, unlike the demo, we will have a beta test process to help flush out bugs that only customers seem to find. We're just about to finish up creating a patch that will fix the latency problem in multiplayer. When the patch becomes available I'll announce it at the Dragon Fire web site. Since we have released the Dragon Fire Sneak Peek demo I've tried to be as visible as possible and help answer any and all questions. I visit the qfg board at sierra.com daily and have been trying to attend some of the chats. The qfg board is a great place to meet other fans and it's a great place to let your ideas about Quest for Glory be known. I read everything there and the really good ones I send to Lori Cole. Believe me, the fans really do have input. Btw, we are planning a chat with Lori Cole and Chance Thomas to be hosted by TalkCity still to be announced. When I find out the date and time I will announce it at the web site (qg5.com) and send a short blurb in a newsletter to all the subscribers. Since I mentioned Chance, here he is in person! The Conductor's Platform - Contributed by Chance Thomas Hi again! I love staying in touch with all of you through this newsletter, and always look forward to your feedback on our efforts. I have particularly enjoyed the enthusiastic response from those of you who already have copies of the Dragon Fire Soundtrack whirling around in your CD players. Your praise for the music has been a rich reward, and on behalf of everyone involved, we're glad you like it! It was our passion to give the fans of Quest For Glory a full, rich musical experience on a Soundtrack album that would truly foreshadow the coming game. I think we've done that. I've received several requests to post additional music clips from the Dragon Fire Soundtrack up on the Internet. And you know we always try to accommodate when we can. So we've added a new link to our "Soundtrack" page in order to fulfill your requests. If you'll go to www.QG5.com, and follow the "Music" and "Soundtrack" buttons, you'll find a link to Sonic Images near the top of the page. Take that link, and then click on the "Clips and Credits" button to discover SEVEN new samples, including "The Rite of Destiny", "The Rite of Conquest", "Frolic at Gnome Ann's Land Inn", a new part of the "Overture", and a few others. We really do aim to please... Now the bulk of composition work for this game is complete. And I have enjoyed it! From the earliest sketches plunked out in October of 1996, through the months of writing melodies and fine-tuning arrangements, through a number of live recording sessions and a Hollywood mastering session, and finally to the December 31 release of the Dragon Fire Soundtrack/Sneak Peek Game Demo CD - this has been an awesome experience. There remain a number of background pieces still to be written for the game, most of which will be derivative of works embodied in the Soundtrack. And of course we still have months of programming implementation to work through. So although the composition phase is waning, you can see that there's still much to do. Until next time... Chance Thanks Chance! Remember, if you want to see the latest info on Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire visit our web site at http://www.qg5.com. Come on by and see what's new today. Well, that's about it for this edition of the Famous Adventurer's Correspondence School. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please feel free to email them to qfg@sierranet.net. Thank you for being a member of our F.A.C.S. newsletter, and we'll catch you in a few weeks with some more info on Dragon Fire. Until next time, Robin Bradley Web Boy /Quality Assurance Team Dragon Fire Sierra On-Line, Oakhurst.