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- Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out!
-
-
- Thanks a lot for buying our game! We appreciate your business and
- hope you have lots of laughs playing it!
-
- But before you barge in and start flailing away at all those beautiful
- babes, take a moment to scan through this file. After you do, read the
- Larry 6 leaflet in the box. We promise you'll learn something!
-
-
- This file covers the following topics:
- 1. MINIMUM HARDWARE
- 2. INSTALLING UNDER DOS
- 3. INSTALLING UNDER WINDOWS
- 4. TO WINDOWS OR NOT TO WINDOWS?
- 5. BAD DIGITAL SOUND EFFECTS
- 6. THE RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON
- 7. GRAVIS ULTRASOUND CARD
- 8. MICROSOFT SOUND SYSTEM
- 9. FOR EXPERTS ONLY! (DELETING UNNECESSARY FILES)
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- 1. MINIMUM HARDWARE
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- 286/16mhz MS-DOS compatible (386/16 recommended)
- VGA card and monitor
- Microsoft-compatible mouse
- 10.5 megs of free hard disk space
- 586,500 bytes of free low memory, if no sound card
-
- The more memory you free up, the better the game runs! If you're having
- problems, let the DOS INSTALL program create a boot disk for you. Signs
- of low memory or overtaxed hardware include slow animation and/or sound
- breakups.
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- Some sound cards require additional free low memory, if you're in doubt,
- give us more memory! Minimum memory requirements for some cards:
- 597,000 bytes for SoundBlaster
- 599,999 bytes for Pro Audio Spectrum card
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- Performance improvers:
- faster CPU (486/25 or better)
- more low memory (630,000 bytes is nice)
- more extended or expanded memory (8 megs is plenty)
- a music card
- a DAC card for sampled audio
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- 2. INSTALLING UNDER DOS
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- Place Disk #1 in your disk drive, change to that drive and type INSTALL.
- Follow the menus to choose your display, music device, sound effects
- device, memory setup, and where to write the game files.
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- If you later change hardware or wish to change the game settings, return
- to that directory and run INSTALL again. There's no need to re-install
- the game from the original floppies unless you delete a file or do
- something equally disastrous.
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-
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- 3. INSTALLING UNDER WINDOWS
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- Larry 6 runs only in Windows' Enhanced Mode. It will not run in Standard
- mode. To run in Windows, you must install under Windows. (The DOS
- version will NOT run in a Windows DOS shell.)
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- Start Windows, turn off any screen savers you may have running, then in
- Program Manager, select File | Run. Enter "A:\SETUP" at the prompt.
- Setup will copy the disks, then ask if you want BASE level or EXTENDED
- level sound.
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- WINDOWS SOUND
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- Choose BASE level sound for sound cards like SoundBlaster, ProAudio,
- Adlib, or any FM Yamaha 3812-type card.
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- Choose EXTENDED level sound for cards like the LAPC-I, MT-32, SCC-1,
- Sound Canvas, Turtle Beach MultiSound, or any General MIDI device.
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- To hear sound from your sound card, you must configure it to work under
- Windows. If you haven't, you may need to add drivers and/or change your
- "Midi mapping." Consult your Windows manual, the sound card's manuals,
- and anyone you know who got their card to work!
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- MINIMUM WINDOWS HARDWARE
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- You already know this, but if you want to run Windows, you need more than
- the minimum machine we describe above. You can't run Enhanced Mode with
- a 286, so a 386 is required. And you can't do anything if you have less
- than 2 megs of memory.
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- 4. TO WINDOWS OR NOT TO WINDOWS?
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- Try Windows first if you want, but understand there are trade-offs. Read
- the Larry 6 leaflet that came with your game!
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- 256-COLOR MODE ONLY!
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- LARRY 6 runs only in 256-color mode. If you are in a high-color mode, you
- must change before running the program. To do this: in Program Manager,
- select the Windows Setup icon, then select OPTIONS. Change DISPLAY to
- use 256-colors, then select "Restart Windows."
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-
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- 5. BAD DIGITAL SOUND EFFECTS
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- If you are playing from DOS, try adding this line to the file
- "RESOURCE.CFG":
- audioSize = 8k
- Experiment with the size. Try 12k, or even 16k, to see what works best.
- Making this larger decreases the amount of memory available to the game.
- If you increase audioSize, you may need to free up more low memory to
- play the game. (This does not apply to the Windows version.)
-
- If you still have problems in DOS (or you have problems running under
- Windows), your hard disk could be fragmented. Delete the game from your
- hard disk, use a utility program to defragment and compact your drive,
- then reinstall the game.
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-
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- 6. THE RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON
-
- Click it to cycle through the available cursors. But, if there is text
- on the screen, clicking it will skip through conversations or multiple
- text messages. Be careful! You may miss crucial dialogue, information
- or clues.
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-
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- 7. GRAVIS ULTRASOUND CARD
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- If you have a GUS card and run the game from DOS, you may have better
- results by using a special TSR driver co-developed by Gravis and
- Sierra. It is in your LSL6 directory in a self-extracting archive
- named GUSDRV.COM. Run it by typing GUSDRV in the LSL6 directory.
- Follow the instructions given in READIT.
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- 8. MICROSOFT SOUND SYSTEM
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- Ironically enough, MicroSoft's Sound System doesn't work very well under
- Windows. If you have the MSS card, we recommend playing Larry 6 under
- DOS (which MicroSoft also wrote!).
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-
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- 9. FOR EXPERTS ONLY! (DELETING UNNECESSARY FILES)
-
- If you don't have DAC audio, you may delete the file "RESOURCE.SFX" to
- free up several megs of hard disk space. If you later buy a DAC, you
- won't hear any sound effects until you reinstall the game from your
- original floppy disks.
-
- Once you have the game up and running correctly, you may delete any
- unused drivers to free up a little hard disk space. But before you do,
- be sure you have good sound and video! Remember: if you later change
- your hardware setup, you'll have to reinstall the game from your
- original disks. CONSIDER YOURSELF WARNED!
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- VIDEO DRIVERS:
- VGA320.DRV Provides beautiful 256-color VGA graphics.
- VGA320BW.DRV Provides "beautiful" 256-gray scale VGA graphics.
-
- MUSIC DRIVERS:
- MT32.DRV Roland MT-32 and LAPC-1
- ADL.DRV AdLib and true compatibles
- (SoundBlaster, Thunderboard, etc)
- SBPRO.DRV SoundBlaster Pro
- PROAUDIO.DRV Pro Audio Spectrum
- MICROSOF.DRV Microsoft Sound System
- GENMIDI.DRV any card not mentioned above that supports
- the "General Midi" standard
- GMGUS.DRV Gravis UltraSound
- GUSDRV.EXE self-extracting archive containing Gravis TSR
- STD.DRV plain old PC internal speaker
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- DIGITIZED SOUND EFFECTS DRIVERS:
- AUDBLAST.DRV SoundBlaster
- AUDDISNY.DRV Disney Sound Source
- AUDMSSYS.DRV Microsoft Sound System
- AUDPRO.DRV Pro Audio Spectrum
- AUDPRO16.DRV Pro Audio Spectrum 16 (16-bit samples)
- AUDPS1.DRV IBM PS/1
- AUDTHUND.DRV Thunderboard
- AUDGUS.DRV Gravis UntraSound
- AUDNONE.DRV if you haven't yet bought a sound board with a DAC
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