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(re: Leisure-Suit Larry on XP platform) can you explain what you’ve tried so far, and what the result was? are you able to install the game? do you get any error messages when you try to run it?
i don’t have the original larry on floppies but i have one of the collections. i can try to help you install it on XP but it would help first to know what you’ve tried and where you’re stuck. (i assume when you say “original,” you mean you’re trying to install the AGI (text) version?)
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Hi Emily. I tried runnign the game directly from the 3 1/2″ disk. When it asked for the original disk, which was already in the A drive, I pressed Enter, but nothing happened. I then did the isntallh and put it on the hard drive. it again asked for the original disk, but again did nothing when I hit Enter. I then copied the entire disk into a folder on the hard drive and tried to run it from there. Same problem. I then tried the install from that folder, got the message for the origianl disk, and had the same problem. My girl friend and I both have Sony Vaio laptops running XP. When I originally tried to install it to the hard drive on her machine, I did see one case where it said ‘0 file copied’. It copied everyhting over, except one file, so I assumed the disk had a corrupted file as you said. However, I then did the same thing on my Sony, and did not get that error message, but the result was the same, namely, not being able to play the game. Very frustrating to say the least.
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Hi collector. I did try to run it from the hard drive with no luck. This is an original 3 1/2 Larry 1 disk, and I’m beginning to suspect there is a corrupted file since you folks have been able to make it run. I used the VDMS to successfully run the Space Quest collection games on the same laptop, but I did have a problem with Space Quest 2, in that the text comes up garbled even though the graphics are fine. Quite honestly, I don’t know what to do about that either.
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(re: Leisure-Suit Larry on XP platform)
hmm. i don’t think i’ll be able to help, since my game is on a CD and not a 3.5 disk.
however, i have run other old sierra games from disks. this sounds a little weird because those games were (i think) too old to have any kind of copy protection on the disk. in other words, having an “original disk” wasn’t a requirement back then… which is why the manuals contained copy protection.
have you tried running the install from a dos prompt? XP only has dos emulation but it might still work. you can get to the dos prompt through your start menu somehow… it might be in Accessories or System Tools. a little dos window will open up.
first change the dos prompt to a:\ (it’ll probably start out as c:\ … if it has something after it, such as c:\windows, type “cd..” without the quotes until you have c:\ as your prompt. then type “a:\” without the quotes and you should have an a:\ prompt.)
when you have an a:\ prompt, type “install.bat” (or whatever the name of the install program is) — you might actually have to type “run install.bat”, i’m not sure. (again, no quotes on either of those.)
-emily
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(re: re: Leisure-Suit Larry on XP platform) Hi Emily. Yes I did try running and installing from the dos (command) prompt. Once I had the A: prompt I tried running from the disk, and also installing to the hard drive from the disk. All efforts resulted in the game asking for the original disk. When I typed in the drive letter that contained it, nothing happend. I’m pretty well convinced that this little 3 1/2″ disk is corrupted. It is, after all, 15 years old. I’m currently haunting Ebay to try and get the Larry collection on CD. I have the Space Quest, Police Quest and Quest for Glory collections on CD, and want to add Larry and King’s Quest. However, I just emailed Al Lowe because I have still another problem. The Space Quest EGA versions from cd show up fine as far as graphics, but the text boxes are garbled and unreadable, so of course, this makes the games unplayable. If you hear of anyone who has had this problem and has fixed it, I’d certainly appreciate hearing about it. I think it may be a problem with the interpretor on my Sony Vaio, because apparently people have played these same games from CD on other XP machines without this problem. Anyway, thanks for the help. Have a good evening.
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(re: re: re: Leisure-Suit Larry on XP platform) The garbled text is a problem that some modern graphics cards have with AGI games. You can fix this by running the game with DOSBox or a third party AGI Interpreter such as NAGI or SARIEN.
DOSBox –
Link: http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/(http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/) NAGI –
Link: http://www.agidev.com/projects/nagi/(http://www.agidev.com/projects/nagi/) SARIEN –
Link: http://sarien.sourceforge.net/(http://sarien.sourceforge.net/) -
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(re: re: re: re: re: Leisure-Suit Larry on XP platform) DOSBox is not that obvious on how to use it, but a simple way is to drag a shortcut from “dosbox.exe” to your desktop and drag and drop your game’s executable onto this shortcut. NAGI is very easy to use. You just move your AGI game folders to inside the NAGI folder and launch NAGI. you will then be presented with a list of all your game inside the NAGI folder and you just select which one you want to play. You will even get all three MIDI voices through your sound card instead of just one through your PC speaker.
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(re: re: re: re: re: re: Leisure-Suit Larry on XP platform) Collector. My many thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Dosbox wouldn’t seem to work for me, but I did what you said with NAGI and it worked like a charm. And the smaller box isn’t a problem on my 19″ monitor. Many thanks again.
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