With Quest 5.0 currently under development as free and open-source software, it doesn't make much sense to continue trying to sell copies of Quest Pro 4.x. So I'm happy to announce that the new release, version 4.1.4 is now available and is completely free.

There is no longer a separate Quest Pro product. Instead, all of the benefits of that edition have been folded into the free version. So, Quest 4.1.4 is now free and includes:

- an unrestricted version of the editor, QDK - you can now make games as big as you like
- the Quest Compiler, which lets you encrypt your ASL file so players can't edit your game
- the Quest Packager, which lets you turn your game into a stand-alone Setup EXE file for Windows machines

There have also been a handful of bug fixes, both from this version and from version 4.1.3, which was only quietly announced on the forums:

- CAS resources: Fixed bug where subsequent calls to get an embedded picture or sound would fail. Also the performance of extracting resources has been improved.
- In games written for Quest 3.1 and earlier, object "look" scripts would not run.
- In QDK, when changing the game default font size, editing existing text would result in it being saved at the old font size. Also when editing text containing bold, italic and underline tags, formatting information could be lost.
- Deleting a verb from an object didn't work.

You can download Quest 4.1.4 from http://www.axeuk.com/quest/

Cool! Thank You

Hey,

Thanks Alex! This might come in real handy with Slackers Inc. Now that Quest is free I might be able to find more people that are willing to get it, and help code games!

Awesome Alex(already had the pro version) but making it completely free might even attract more people, Good job on fixing them bugs to.

awesome news on it being free! hopefully this can attract a bunch more people.

and ultra mega thanks for addressing these bugs, particularly that nasty little CAS issue with images and sound.

Free? Was just about to pay the 40 dollars. Was looking for a link to pay. Thanks

I'm sure Alex isn't opposed to donations if you're pleased with the final product

Is this the only previous version that will be released for free, or were you planning to release earlier versions? I'm only noting this because QuestNet was not available post-4.0.5 if I remember correctly.

You're right, QuestNet was only available up to v4.0.5.

I don't plan to release any previous versions, but if you're particularly interested I could send QuestNet Server to you. I'm not going to recommend it though unless you have some very specific private project in mind, as Quest doesn't include a way of connecting to QuestNet Server any more either, so it will be very hard to find anybody who wants to play a QuestNet game ('twas ever thus... hence why I withdrew it)

I should be fine. I do have a copy of Pro for an earlier version of Quest 3 (or was it 2?) and I believe it had QuestNet as well. I don't have any specific projects in mind at the moment and it's not worth getting into, I guess.