GOG Sierra Bundles

[BagginsKQ]

Quest for Glory has finally been released on GOG, all V episodes and both versions of the first QFG.
http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/quest_for_glory

This finally explains who maintains the ownership for the series. Activision.

Highly recommended for fans of KQ series is Quest for Glory series. It was an RPG/Adventure hybrid series (last game is pure Action-RPG stripped of most adventure aspects). It had a few nods to the KQ series as easter eggs, and like KQ the game took ideas from both fairy tales and myths from around around the world

[GuybrushWilco]

Excellent! Quest for Glory is my second favorite series, after Space Quest. I was wondering when these games would finally be re-released .

[Valiento]

A "Greated Hits and Misses" collection of Leisure Suit Larry has been added to GOG. Can't tell if this is the anniverary collection with 1-6 (only had the floppy non-talky version of 6, and both EGA and VGA remake of Larry 1), or the 2006 Vivendi version that lacked Larry 7, and the EGA Larry 1.

No idea why they didn't go with the Ulimate Pleasure Pack that had the complete Larry series up to 7 and Larry's Casino.

Edit:
Apparently it has both versions of Larry 1, and the CD Talkie version of Larry 6 (but only utilizes the VGA graphics).

[inm8#2]

Maybe the other Larry games will come in the future, hopefully.

[Jennifer]

The GOG.com version only has the VGA version of Larry 6 (rather than the SVGA version) and no Larry 7 because they use ScummVM and ScummVM doesn't support those games yet.

Hopefully once ScummVM gets support for SCI 2.1x and SCI 3 these games will get added to GOG.

[MusicallyInspired]

I don't understand why they're using ScummVM. DOSBox is still the better choice for Sierra games. Especially SCI1.1 games. The speed is way off in ScummVM for those games. And they use DOSBox for plenty of other games in their library.

[inm8#2]

Yea I would have also thought they would use DosBox for the Larry games.

[BagginsKQ]

I thought someone said the package has a weird mix of some using scummvm and some using dosbox.

The missing SVGA/VESA mode of Larry 6 is inexplicable considering the VESA dos version works as good as KQ7 or SQ6 in dosbox. It looks a whole lot better.

[Jennifer]

Originally Posted by BagginsKQ

I thought someone said the package has a weird mix of some using scummvm and some using dosbox.

The only game that uses DOSBox is Softporn Adventure.

But, yeah, that makes it even more strange that they didn't use DOSBox for the SVGA version of Larry 6 since they are using DOSBox in the same collection.

[BagginsKQ]

I gotta reply back from GOG on the missing LSL6 Vesa/SVGA;

"Hello, thank you for your concern, but we already have access to this version. We didn't release it due to technical issues. We just weren't able to make it run swiftly on modern systems.

Regards,
GOG.com Support"

This of course doesn't make much sense. In my experience the SVGA version actually runs faster and more efficiently in Dosbox .74 than the VGA version, even at full screen.

It doesn't work at all in ScummVM.

[Jennifer]

Originally Posted by BagginsKQ

This of course doesn't make much sense. In my experience the SVGA version actually runs faster and more efficiently in Dosbox .74 than the VGA version, even at full screen.

It doesn't work at all in ScummVM.

The VGA version does work in ScummVM though (the 1.001.x version at least, which is what's available on GOG.com), which is probably what they mean by technical issues since they don't seem to want to use DOSBox for the LSL series.

[inm8#2]

I don't see why they didn't simply use DosBox for LSL 6 SVGA. Almost effortless. I doubt anyone would mind having ScummVM and DosBox in the package installer.

[MusicallyInspired]

It's not as effortless as ScummVM. It's sad to see GoG taking the easy way out with some of these releases. Oh well.

[Blackthorne519]

Well, they may have an update in the future. They do that pretty frequently.


Bt

[BagginsKQ]

"The VGA version does work in ScummVM though (the 1.001.x version at least, which is what's available on GOG.com), which is probably what they mean by technical issues since they don't seem to want to use DOSBox for the LSL series."

I've been testing them. The VGA version runs better in Dosbox, than it does in ScummVM. Both run rather slowly, compared to the SVGA version. But SCUMMVM version seems more sluggish than in Dosbox. ALso seemed that there were some animation glitches in ScummVM for example during the Sierra logo appearance. Cycling of the colors seemed a little off in ScummVM. General animation seemed a bit jerky and that's even with detail pushed all the way up.

Even the initial load up of the game seems slow on both scummvm and in dosbox (initial load might actually be slightly slower in Dosbox).

Now the SVGA version running in Dosbox runs fast, and very smoothly. It loads quickly too, even with detail turned all the way up and in full screen. I'd say its one of the best running SCI/VESA games I've seen running in Dosbox.

Also keep this in mind, in the past, look at KQ6. They didn't just strip out files, they included the Enhanced version. Although the enhanced version was not supported in Gog's installation. You could access it using ScummVM. Which makes no sense why they didn't just keep the SVGA folders (it's only an extra 16 mb), and let people try to use it themselves.

[inm8#2]

^ Baggins, in case you haven't already, you should send your config options to GOG! You'll be a hero.

[BagginsKQ]

My config options for Dosbox, is the basic "mount c: c:/" go to the folder in C drive, and then load the game using the "sierra.exe".

As in I was just using default config options. The game runs quite well on default settings.

Why bother trying to fine tune something that works well already?

You could also build a shortcut to the same thing, but I'm lazy, LOL.

http://www.sierrahelp.com/Utilities/...eShortcut.html

[exo]

or you guys could just look up exodos vol1, which has preconfigured settings for every dos adventure game to run in dosbox..... ya know... just sayin...

[inm8#2]

Ah nevermind then, I thought you might have tinkered with config options. I wasn't talking about shortcuts.

So if the SVGA version runs well 'out of the box' in DosBox, y u no include it, GOG? I wouldn't see any customers having a problem with LSL1-5 using ScummVM and LSL6 using DosBox.

[BagginsKQ]

As I said on the other board my theory, and I'm stick to it until I get more evidence is;

They must have tried to test LSL6 SVGA on SCUMMVM only (as the pack is primarily using SCUMMVM), and because of the simplicity of installing games into SCUMMVM. Because LSL6 SVGA/VESA does not work in SCUMMVM (it loads in the daily builds but runs very slowly, and is broken and has unplayable menus), they decided "technical issues" so they didn't include it.

Which is silly because in the past they included other files like the KQ6 Enhanced, when dosbox couldn't handle the files (SCUMMVM can by the way)!