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(re: ultimate pleasure pack)
Just go to http://geocities.com/belzorash/ and download the patch for LSL6. It will fix the speed bugs. Fixes for the other Larry games’ timer bugs can also be found there.
(re: Current Inside Copy) This is the first I’ve heard of it….
It sounds funny though…
Scott Murphy had a wild sense of humor, and the culture at Sierra was to encourage this sort of off-the-wall humor.
I know Scott monitors this website – maybe he’ll pitch in some memories.
-Ken W(re: re: re: re: Possible Reference to Space Quest in Half-life… Tell me what you think!)
That’s why the reference is IN – Half Life for tribute TO – Space Quest
(re: Game Arts)
Very cool info there Binky!
I remember laughing at all my friends playing their crappy 8-bit nintendo system while I was living it up on my computer with Sierra games!!! All the while I secretly played nintendo 🙂
(re: ultimate pleasure pack)
two solutions: get a floppy version that runs on 3.1 (XP runs all 3.x programs perfectly), or the give your system specs, because i have the pleasure pack and have never had that bug show up on a P2 w/ 384 MB RAM, Geforce 4 w/ 64 MB RAM and a SoundBlaster MP3+
(re: Why was there never a third game?)
go to http://www.virtualapple.com (for WinXP users) to play Manhunter New York on the II GS emulator.
I think Manhunter would’be been cool as a Japanese-styled turn-based RPG, but then again, it’s actually really fun as is!
(re: re: re: re: Why was there never a third game?)
i once came across this site(believe the site is/was from the murray’s)
at the moment when i click on the manhunter 3 link it doesn’t show anything anymore,dunno if this is temporarily or not.
but it had info and 2 or 3 pics on “manhunter 3”manhunter was my most favorite sierra game.
(re: Thank you Larry for my A in English Class!)
Sierra taught me how to type, and since I was the only fella with a SoundBlaster, I had games and Windows 3.1 making all kinds of “real” sounds instead of the standard bloop and beeps.
A friend of mine can play all Sierra and Square Enix game tunes by ear, and has written many techno pieces based on the Sierra games in the late ’90s before being killed in Iraq.
He was working on something during the war (it’s a war: they shoot at us, we shoot at them) which I was mailed. Also, being from Germany as a child, he, too, learned English from video games, mostly Sierra games in the late 80s and early 90s and Square Enix games in the mid and late 90s.
Most of my other friends just played Larry for the sexual content, and kept killing Graham in the remake of King’s Quest 1. I recently gave that game to my fiancee’s brothers and sisters, and they keep killing Graham, thinking it’s funny. They also torute Pac-Man in Pac-Man 2, and get into arguements with the computer in Larry 3.
I know that almost everybody has some Sierra games if they owned a PC in the late 80s/early 90s.
(re: re: Sam and Max 2 Cancelled – Ken Comments?)
Wow. I just signed that about two minutes ago, and there are already 10 people who have signed after me.
(re: re: re: Phantasmagoria Memories? Questions for Ken or Roberta)
You have the shirt. That’s so cool. ~green waves of jealousy waft off me a-la Pepe le Peu~
(re: Am I just a wimp?)
Nope. ;D I was the same way, though not with the first one as much. Now the 2nd one….WOW. Every time I would log on to the computer in the game and the files would change to..uhm..other things… it would scare the heck outta me. If someone put a copy down right now, infront of me, I’m not sure if I would play it….ok..yes I would. ;D
(This is so wonderful!)
I can only hope that all of my old friends will eventually use FauxINN and I can see ’em all!
(Re: Major upgrades soon) Ken,
I have not really dug into the system update yet, but so far everything seems to be running well and I’m enjoying the improvements.(Re: Quest For Glory V Soundtrack – Pictures) Nicky, you can still find this soundtrack on eBay from time to time! Hope this helps you:
(Virtual Apple and classic Sierra) Virtual Apple has many EGA classics on their site for play. Only catch is no saving. Many Sierra games are on the IIgs emulator. Go to
Link: http://www.virutalapple.com(http://www.virutalapple.com)
to play the classics.From the Corporate Offices of Warbasse Kyokai, total owner of Anime Strike, Manga Wolf Comics, Disenfranchised Comic Shop, and etc. etc. etc.
(Older Sierra gamers and new PCs) For folks needing to play older games, see if you can find a Windows version of Microsoft’s Virutal PC. After installation, you can set a computer to use Windows 3.1, DOS 5, 6 or 7, Windwos 95 and so on, even Linux (real reason for creation). A new version for OS X Pather is due, too, with no Windows XP packaged, so a user can do the same for Mac with PC OSs.
I used it just fine on my PC, by putting DOS 2000 and Windows 95a. All of older Sierra and Virgin/Westwood games run fine, but I also had a brutal time convincing the program to tweak for an old Pentium II.
I hope this helps anybody have the troubles I’ve had with older Sierra and Virgin/Westwood games to play.
The other solution for the sound card problem for me was to just install in an open ISA slot and SoundBlaster Pro and disable my on-board sound. Despite WinXP “wanting” a 16-bit or better sound card, all of my sounds are fine, and my WinXP games, like Half-Life, work just peachy. However, the on-board must be disabled physically.
Lastly, most Windows 3.x software will run 100% fine under WinXP, as long as it doesn’t have a Win95 autorun setting (any Sierra game published from, more or less, Sep. ’95 and later). You must, though, have the ability to adjust your video mode to 256 colors or 16 colors, and, for King’s Quest 5 CD, you must adjust the resolution to 640 x 480 x 256 colors. Other than that, everything works great!
Then again, just buy Virutal PC and forget about the last two solutions.
From the Corporate Offices of Warbasse Kyokai, total owner of Anime Strike, Manga Wolf Comics, Disenfranchised Comic Shop, and etc. etc. etc.
(WorldStream and Peter Spear) Ken, did you quit WorldStream? Last I wrote to you, you told you were at that company. That was four years ago.
By the way, does anyone know that Peter Spear died in 1998? Sad, I say.
From the Corporate Offices of Warbasse Kyokai, total owner of Anime Strike, Manga Wolf Comics, Disenfranchised Comic Shop, and etc. etc. etc.
(re: Major upgrades soon) The new version is installed!!!!
Thus far, it looks good — other than a few pictures I’ve noticed that are missing.
I unsubscribed EVERYONE from the email list. If you would like to be on the
Link:sierragamers@talkspot.com (mailto:sierragamers@talkspot.com)
mailing list, just select it on the “My Account” page, on the “System” menu.
One other thing to note:
On the message boards, they are now in “correct” sequence, meaning that are displayed in forward chronological order, not in reverse order, as they were. To get to the most recently posted message, on the longer threads, just click on the >> symbol at the top of the page. I am working on something that will make this simpler — but, wanted to get this version online before doing anything else.
You should notice dramatic speed increase on the message boards…
-Ken W
PS Email me with any bizarre behaviour, and I’ll look into it right away.(re: Building Old Computers For Sierra Gaming)
Here’s what I have.
Sierra games from 1979-1983 go onto an old IBM PC from 1982 I found in a neighbor’s trash. He threw the monitor away, too. It has a 8086 processor, two 1.2 MB floppy drives (seems like a waste), one external 720 KB floppy drive, a 15 MB hard disk, an old mouse, an AdLib card, and a high-res (640 x 480) EGA card. The cache and RAM slots (with the old push-in RAM modules, not the nice chips we have today) are all filled to the max, giving me a whopping 960 KB of RAM. It even has an old modem which is too slow for anything. I play really old, boot-from-disk (Flopper) games on this dinosaur. My neighbor left Window 1.5 on it and it’s useless.
I have a Tandy 1800 DLX for DOS Sierra games from 1984-1995. Amazingly, only Police Quest 4 and SWAT 1 doesn’t run on this. The RAM is maxxed to 8 MB (with those risky RAM expanders that allow more chips to fit onto the extra slots), it has a 2x Creative CD-ROM, two large 520 MB hard disks, an external 1.2 MB floppy drive, and two 2.88 MB floppy drives (the format that never made it). I also stuck Windows 3.5 on it, and I replaced the modem with a 56kbps and a broadband card. Have Internet Explorer 5.1 for Win3.1 on it, though the Cirrus Logic card has no problems ever displaying graphics. I use the on-board Tandy 3-Voice for both music and digitzed sound. And a PBTV for watching TV (in 64 colors) through Windows. DOS 2000 in the main OS. It’s great for a good many of games that require 4 MB of RAM. The processor is much too slow, though, for the Police Quest games, and a few others that started coming out from 1993 onwards. I have no problem with Larry 7, strangely enough, nor with Larry 6, and the early Sierra CD games.
My last old PC in a PowerLeap’d AT&T Pentium 150. It has a PCI SoundBlaster Live!, am AMD K6 550, 1024 MB RAM, a PCI TV card, WinXP Home, 240 GB total internal HD space, a PCI broadband/FireWire/USB 2.0 card, two DVD-/+RWs internal and such. I run, using Virtual PC if needs be, all my old games made since 2002 on this machine, unless the game needs a Pentium III and up, which then I’m using the PC I’m using to type this.
I also have a Power Macintosh 7800/180 PowerPC for Sierra games I have on the Mac. Under System 7.5.5, the Mac ran everything great. Under 9.2.2, it’s very choosy. So I hacked OS X Panther onto it (lost my warranty according to Apple) and it plays nothing old! Luckily, I have the old LC III and an Apple IIe Platium, which I still send to Apple and upgrade to a Apple IIgs instead.
Then, of course, it my gaming consoles: TurboGrafx-16 w/ CD-ROM, Sega Master System, PC Engine Turbo Duo, FamiCom Titler, Super NES II, Genesis CDX w/ 32X, PlayStation with MOD chip, Japanese PS2, for those region 2 movies and adult games only found in Japan, an old NES, Atari Jaguar, 5200, 7800, Super Arcade II and Lynx, a ColecoVision, a Sega Saturn with super MOD chip, a 3DO FZ-10, a Dreamcast, Super Famicom, Nintendo64 with a Japanese Disk Drive (works, but I don’t know what to do), a Memorex CD-i w/ MPEG, a Goldstar CD-i/DVD combo, a Pioneer LaserActive, GameCube with Game Boy Player, Game Gear, Sega Nomad, Game Boy Advance, and, finally a NUON DVD player. Total games: 2500, 60% on PC alone. I also still have, but not hooked up: VIC-20, Apple 1 (pain in the butt), TRS-80 monochrome, TI-99 w/ tape drive (tapes were high tech!), and a Bandai Playdia with no games. In other words, if there’s a game I want to play, I’ll play it not matter what!
(re: Funniest Leisure Suit Larry Moments)
In Larry 1, type in “jack off” and the Al Lowe (the narrator) will respond, “The whole idea was to stop doing that, Larry.”
Also in Larry 1, type in something off the wall like, “Fuck you!” and the narrator will respond, “Yeah, and I bet you would, too!”
Larry 1 again, the guy with barrel is supposed to be either Steve Jobs or the Woz. I can’t remember.
In the VGA version of Larry 1, Al Lowe is one of the perverts in the disco.
In Larry 2, the simple name of No Nookie (as is sex) is more funny scary than just funny.
Larry 2, type “piss” and the narrator will say, “You feel a warm feeling spread down you leg. Your leisure suit is not as white as it used to be.”
Both Larry 2 and 3, why is Larry’s father-in-law on None Tonight island looking like Ken W.?
In Larry 2, the Spanish in the music shop is really stupid, but funny how Larry doesn’t know what he’s saying.
Larry 2 and Larry 5, name of the airline is Aerodork.
Larry 3 had the best narrator to get into an arguement with. I’d type dumb stuff and the narrator would respond. For instance, type “jack off” and the response is, “Aren’t your hand hairy enough?” or type “fuck you” and the response is, “Same to you, buddy!”
Larry 2 had a Filth-O-Meter. After adjusting the filth to filthy, the narrator you say, “You filthy little bastard.”
If, in Larry 3, you used the cheat code to by-pass the questions, the narrator calls you a cheater and amount of filth you want in the game.
In Larry 4, Borderbund made Carmen Sandiego steal the floppies and called the game Where in the Hell is Leisure Suit Larry? If you believe this . . .
In Larry 5, Larry can piss in the fountain outside of PPC, foundles the Titty award, drops coffee on Silas Screw ‘Em All, who then keeps calling Larry names like Woapner, Luffner, Loser and etc. etc.
In Larry 5, Silas thinks Larry’s first and middle names are the same.
In Larry 5, when Patti jumps the guy in the record booth. Or gets him drunk. Whichever.
Larry 3, Larry gets a bad case of crabs with Tawni. Then dances on stage in the hotel. Not to mention that both Roger Wilco and Elvis are sometimes at the bar!
Larry 3, Larry, in Sierra’s prop storage, sees how the taxi’s are done in Larry 1.
Larry 5, Patti gets a hooter shooter. Larry medallion is an award for a Dan Quayle look-alike contest. The doctor at the FBI does some nasty things to Patti’s “area”, unbuttoning Chi Chi’s chi chis, mudwrestling till Larry’s naked, the radio station’s name is KRAP and in the airplane when Larry’s dreaming and crushing his peanuts, the stewardess asks, “Mr. Laffer, is there something wrong with your nuts?”
Larry 6 was alright, funny is all of the video clips with rockets and stuff going up.
Larry 7, what were Larry and the Captain doing it on?
(re: re: re: Possible Reference to Space Quest in Half-life… Tell me what you think!)
They’re all “Last name, Initial”
Einstein, A — Albert Einstein
Wilco, R — Roger Wilco
Gordon, F — Flash Gordon
Freeman, G — Gordon FreemanBTW, you mixed up the title of this thread a little. It’s not an SQ reference in HL, but would be a HL reference in SQ.
Besides, SQV is five years older than HL. Why would anyone include a reference to a game that won’t be released for another 5 years? Nobody would get it.
(re: re: Possible Reference to Space Quest in Half-life… Tell me what you think!)
Possibly, but i would think that would be Flash G. not Gordon F. I still prefer my interpretation but yours could very well be right. Thanks for the input.
(re: Possible Reference to Space Quest in Half-life… Tell me what you think!)
Gordon, F. is Flash Gordon
(re: Quest For Glory V Soundtrack – Pictures)
You have no idea how badly I wanted and still want this CD. But it is impossible to find nowadays. Oh well. Thanks for sharing.
