Sent a message here: http://www.gog.com/support/contact

I think I will try contacting Al Lowe (well, send a email; we'll see if it gets through) and see if maybe he has anything he'd be able to bring to GOG as bonus material. :)

Well I tried to send a message, and tried to upload the rar file I made of the Hires folder (minus the resource.aud), and gave them instructions for how maybe to get it to work.

Note: I don't know if any other folder will be required, for example the VESA folder, or anything in the main LSL6/CD folder. I limited it only to the hires folder.

Not sure if the file actually uploaded its about 16 megabytes. But I didn't get any popups or options to show me that it was 'uploaded'. So I don't know if they have a limit to size of the extras. In anycase, I'll wait for them to discuss things with me more, and maybe find an alternative way of uploading it to them.

Again I'm leary of uploading it directly to a 3rd party website as it would technically be the 'entire game' (without the speech files).

"Do you own any of Sierra game based books. I have the LSL book that came with the 1997 LSL collection and I own the 4th Edition of the King's Quest Companion. I want to get my hands on the 2nd Edition Space Quest Collection."

Ya, all four editions of King's Quest Companoin, both editions of Roger Wilco's Guide to Space Adventures, 2nd edition of the SQ Companion. American 1st (or second edition, I'm a bit unclear on the history behind this one) of QFG Authorized Guide (covers games 1-4), I have 2nd edition of LSL bedsite companion, and whatever the edition of the book included with the LSL collections (the red one). I have the three KQ novels, the two GK novels, several assorted smaller Sierra hintbooks (KQ6, FPFP, and maybe a couple of others). I have the KQ7 hintbook by Lorelei Shannon, and the GK2 hintbook (also interesting as it novelizes the game somewhat, includes the scripts of most of the movies, and includes the characters full names). I have the PQ Casebook 2nd edition. The Official Guide to Police Quest 2nd edition.

Those are probably the most interesting of my collection... Beyond that I have the KQ8 official strategy guide, GK3 hintbook, and I think PQ5:SWAT hintbook. Nothing interesting in them, pretty much just straight hintbooks. No bonus material.

Note: If I have more than one edition, of a certain book, its generally because during my research I came across the fact that there were variant "bonus" materials included in the book. For example, alternate artwork and maps and inclusion of an extra chapter in the early editions of the KQ companion. Or the two interpretations of SQ1 story in novelized form in the Space Adventures guide editions (one based on the original SQ1 version, and the other modified to include the remake version).

I'm still looking for a copy of the original (and I think it was UK only) edition of the Quest for Glory: Authorized Guide for first two games. As it apparently has original artwork included in it.

http://questforglory.wikia.com/wiki/Quest_for_Glory:_The_Authorized_Strategy_Guide_for_%22So_You_Want_to_be_a_Hero%22_and_%22Trial_by_Fire%22

I'm guessing that LSL6 came on both CD (with speech) and diskettes (without) on DOS, and the Windows version only came on CD. The DOS versions only came with VGA graphics, while the Windows version had SVGA graphics as well, and looked the best of them all.

Once SCUMMVM finally supports the Windows SVGA version, I'm sure it will be included in our collection. RIght now, only the lo-res version is supported (that is the DOS version).

LSL7 will probably come later. That is pure Windows... it's a shame we can't use the CyberSniff 2000 though. Still one of the best LSL games, such a shame we never got the planned sequel.

Do you own LSL 7 or Casino in any form on CD. I have the original CD for LSL 7 and Casino. LSL 7 and Casino are the only LSL games I own the original copies of. I too use the installers for Sierra games on the Sierra Help Pages.

I own Larry 7 and Casino original CDs.

Casino never really worked for me was pretty unstable, in VIsta, and not sure how it works in later versions of windows.

I never checked to see if there was a dos variant installation.

I'd check out the installers, but unfortunately I'm separated from most of my collection at the moment.

I just found my copy of Larry: Box Office Bust. Damn! I own almost every LSL game on CD. I am only missing the original version of LSL 1 and the VGA talkie of LSL 6. This is because I got the first 6 games through the Vivendi Cillection in 2006. At least I was able to recover the LSL 6 SVGA talkie from the 1996 collection . Lost the CDs from that collection that had the first 6 games.

I am going to try to play LSL: BOB to see how bad it is. I also think that LSL: MCL is not that bad a game.

"LSL 6 SVGA talkie from the 1996 collection "

Again I recommend you check the folder on that disk carefullly. BOth versions "lores" and "hires" of the game shold be in that folder, and in the subfolders. It was on my 1996/7 collection.

To make LSL6 VGA talkie, all you need to do is move one file: "Resource.aud" into the "lores" folder. Then use the "Sierra.exe" in the Lores folder to start the game.

I finally got LSL6 VGA talkie to work from my CD. Thanks for the help. I got it to work on Scumm VM, but not on DOSBOX. The VGA talkie is really inferior to the SVGA talkie. Glad I have the SVGA talkie on CD.

I sent an e-mail to Al Lowe, and here is his response (not the whole e-mail, only the important part): I sent another e-mail to Codemasters and I'm waiting for a response from them.

So, I bet all they did to make their QFG6 was take the Lores folder, rename it, and insert the resource.aud file. That's all that is needed for it to work.

This works for the Hires, as well. It would be incredibly easy for me to upload the contents of the Hiress folder minus the resource aud to everyone. You could recontruct your folders. But I don't want to break any of GOG's anti-piracy policies on that issue!

It's probably not so much as a 'hybrid', but it would be better described as a stripped down version of the game (as in all the extra duplicate/alternate sized files & subfolders are removed from the installation).

Can someone post a screen shot of the GOG LSL6 folder contents (including the file sizes) ? ...and contents of any related subfolders within the folder? It should be easy enough to compare and confirm.

For those wanting to compare, here is the contents of the Lores folder from the full release of the game (that comes with the 2nd and 3rd Larry Collections from sierra)

The two files off to the side of the Patches subfolder, are the two patch files included in the release.

Here's my take on that: I think you could upload those files to, say, Dropbox, and share a link here. (Maybe create a new post about it.) As long as you don't post a full game, I don't think you'd get in trouble. People post links to files all the time, files that provide upgrades or other services or whatnot. As long as people still have to purchase x game to make any use of those files, I don't see why you'd get in trouble.

Ultimately it's up to you, though.
Interesting. I still haven't sent an email to Al yet; I was thinking about asking him if he had any special bonus content he wouldn't mind allowing to be added to the release package. (I'm guessing most of what he wanted to release is on his site, though.)

Problem is it is essentially the full game. It can run stand alone (just like the lores version can run standalone with just the lores folder), without the speech file (resource.aud), and you can switch it to the text box subtitle mode (in the ingame settings). I can't just send you bits of it, to merge with the other files, since it has files made specifically for it. I did mess around to see what would happen if I tried to send only part of the files that seemed unique or important to the Hires version (any patches, vesa driver, any files with a different file sizes, but shared the same name, etc), but all it ended up doing was crashing. So not sure you can just mix and match the files from both versions.

Better not do it. Don't get yourself, and your GOG account in jeopardy.

I know it sucks but if we ask GOG and Codemasters long enough, I'm sure something will happen.