LGR - Playing Leisuire Suit Larry on an IBM PCjr
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Date: 2022-04-14
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King
Hahaha, I own one of these, bought it for 20$ and it came with just about everything you would need. Watching this made me burst out laughing at a few different points, especially when you had to make backups of the disks. lol Using this computer is definitely a love/hate relationship. XD I am going to have to look around for some more stuff for it, I mean I tried to become a Commodore 64 user but after buying two overpriced dead commodores I give up. Long live the IBM compatible (well mostly in the PCjr's case. :P) is what I say.
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Hahaha, I own one of these, bought it for 20$ and it came with just about everything you would need. Watching this made me burst out laughing at a few different points, especially when you had to make backups of the disks. lol Using this computer is definitely a love/hate relationship. XD I am going to have to look around for some more stuff for it, I mean I tried to become a Commodore 64 user but after buying two overpriced dead commodores I give up. Long live the IBM compatible (well mostly in the PCjr's case. :P) is what I say.
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Gh0st620
Super late to the party, That's one thing about Sierra games, save often, you can miss a gamebreaking item easily. for this game you need the pills out of the dumpster is one of those, sort of if you aren't using the look command every time, you die. Others, if there is a desert or whatever, you have to know the exact combination so you can go get the game-breaking item you absolutely have to have to progress. This was the 80s and 90s before the internet, so you had to call the Sierra hint line 900 number to know.
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Super late to the party, That's one thing about Sierra games, save often, you can miss a gamebreaking item easily. for this game you need the pills out of the dumpster is one of those, sort of if you aren't using the look command every time, you die. Others, if there is a desert or whatever, you have to know the exact combination so you can go get the game-breaking item you absolutely have to have to progress. This was the 80s and 90s before the internet, so you had to call the Sierra hint line 900 number to know.
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Harmon1ca
This is a fantastic video. I had to close the door to my office because I was laughing so hard at some of your comments.
I had a genuine moment of nostalgia upon hearing the drives running and seeing the unboxing of larry, I seem to remember many Sierra games had that beige inside box with the Sierra mountain photograph.
I remember fondly the utter joy at getting a game to work after hours of (admittedly my father's) work. Boot discs for specific games were always a favorite.
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This is a fantastic video. I had to close the door to my office because I was laughing so hard at some of your comments.
I had a genuine moment of nostalgia upon hearing the drives running and seeing the unboxing of larry, I seem to remember many Sierra games had that beige inside box with the Sierra mountain photograph.
I remember fondly the utter joy at getting a game to work after hours of (admittedly my father's) work. Boot discs for specific games were always a favorite.
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damnstrad.
The PCjr was a pretty bad computer. It's cartridge slots were barely ever utilised, it had no DMA, the upgrade sidecars were bulky and large and added width to the unit, the wireless keyboard had low battery life and poor range, and with a 14- monitor, how far away could you want to be from it? Also the original chiclet keyboard was poorly designed and difficult to type on. But the PCjr did have several great features like its high res graphics modes, and its 3-voice sound chip.
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The PCjr was a pretty bad computer. It's cartridge slots were barely ever utilised, it had no DMA, the upgrade sidecars were bulky and large and added width to the unit, the wireless keyboard had low battery life and poor range, and with a 14- monitor, how far away could you want to be from it? Also the original chiclet keyboard was poorly designed and difficult to type on. But the PCjr did have several great features like its high res graphics modes, and its 3-voice sound chip.
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tonytechvt
I know this is a really old video and someone may have mentioned this since this was published but in case nobody did MSDOS had a command called Diskcopy where it would use whatever available memory you had to copy as many files as it could. The syntax is Diskcopy [drive 1] [drive 2] also MSDOS supported a virtual B floppy drive so you could use Diskcopy A: B: even though you only had one drive. This might make for a less painful copy procedure in the future.
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I know this is a really old video and someone may have mentioned this since this was published but in case nobody did MSDOS had a command called Diskcopy where it would use whatever available memory you had to copy as many files as it could. The syntax is Diskcopy [drive 1] [drive 2] also MSDOS supported a virtual B floppy drive so you could use Diskcopy A: B: even though you only had one drive. This might make for a less painful copy procedure in the future.
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Lachlant1984
Holy shit, what a great big miss. Why can't you just run the game from the original disk without first backing it up? Wow, all that effort just to load a game, I can't appreciate DOS as it's been years since i last used it, i wouldn't know where to start if ylu sat me down in front of a DOS machine without a reference manual to hand. I don't think I want to use a PF Junior anytime soon, I'd rather use one of the later Tandy 1000's.
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Holy shit, what a great big miss. Why can't you just run the game from the original disk without first backing it up? Wow, all that effort just to load a game, I can't appreciate DOS as it's been years since i last used it, i wouldn't know where to start if ylu sat me down in front of a DOS machine without a reference manual to hand. I don't think I want to use a PF Junior anytime soon, I'd rather use one of the later Tandy 1000's.
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World
I beat the first three Leisure Suit Larry games on my Commodore Amiga 500 back in the day. You could install the games onto a hdd, but I didn-t own one for a very long time. Luckily, you could play the games directly from the provided 3. 5- floppies without having to make a -backup- disk the way Clint did. The only thing you needed (if I remember correctly) was a formatted floppy to save your game progress to.
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I beat the first three Leisure Suit Larry games on my Commodore Amiga 500 back in the day. You could install the games onto a hdd, but I didn-t own one for a very long time. Luckily, you could play the games directly from the provided 3. 5- floppies without having to make a -backup- disk the way Clint did. The only thing you needed (if I remember correctly) was a formatted floppy to save your game progress to.
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reignick1133
I don't think the song when you encounter the drunk in the bathroom area is -Because he lives-, if I remember correctly ( and this is a BIG -if-, mind you as I haven't played Larry 1 all the way through in almost 10 years) The song they were going for was -How dry I am. -
At least it makes a bit more sense to me in -memory- that way. As the guy is a stumble drunkard passed out on the floor.
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I don't think the song when you encounter the drunk in the bathroom area is -Because he lives-, if I remember correctly ( and this is a BIG -if-, mind you as I haven't played Larry 1 all the way through in almost 10 years) The song they were going for was -How dry I am. -
At least it makes a bit more sense to me in -memory- that way. As the guy is a stumble drunkard passed out on the floor.
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jimbox114
Remember when I was 12 a kid snuck this game into the computer lap in middle school. We had a substitute teacher that day so wasn't doing anything. None of us could answer the questions at the beginning so the teacher gave us the answers not knowing what type of game it was lol. I don't remember what type of IBM those computers were but I remember they had two 3. 5 drives and no HD.
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Remember when I was 12 a kid snuck this game into the computer lap in middle school. We had a substitute teacher that day so wasn't doing anything. None of us could answer the questions at the beginning so the teacher gave us the answers not knowing what type of game it was lol. I don't remember what type of IBM those computers were but I remember they had two 3. 5 drives and no HD.
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LGR
-sweetpeahiker Well that's actually what this entire video was about, because the only way the PCjr works at all is through a boot disk since there is no hard drive. Even then this turned out to be a special case because of the Jr's unique hardware config with the memory upgrade and its associated program, so I would say this was anything but straightforward, even back in the day.
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-sweetpeahiker Well that's actually what this entire video was about, because the only way the PCjr works at all is through a boot disk since there is no hard drive. Even then this turned out to be a special case because of the Jr's unique hardware config with the memory upgrade and its associated program, so I would say this was anything but straightforward, even back in the day.
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