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Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail!

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Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail!
Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail! cover
Developers
Sierra On-Line
Publishers
Retail Sierra On-Line
Digital Codemasters
Digital Assemble Entertainment
Engines
SCI3
Release dates
DOS November 26, 1996
Windows 3.x November 26, 1996
Windows November 26, 1996
Mac OS (Classic) January 18, 1997
Windows (DOSBox) February 19, 2013
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox) February 19, 2013
Windows (ScummVM) April 26, 2018[1]
Linux (ScummVM) May 14, 2018[2]
macOS (OS X) (ScummVM) August 2, 2019[3]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure
Art styles Cartoon
Themes Adult, Comedy, Contemporary, Romance
Series Leisure Suit Larry
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Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail! on IGDB
Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail! on MobyGames
Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail! on Wikipedia
Softporn Adventure 1981
Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards 1987
Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places) 1988
Leisure Suit Larry III: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals 1989
Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work 1991
Leisure Suit Larry's Casino 1992
Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out! 1993
Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail! 1996
Leisure Suit Larry's Casino (1998) 1998
Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude 2004
Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust 2009
Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards: Reloaded 2013
Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don't Dry 2018
Leisure Suit Larry - Wet Dreams Dry Twice 2020

Warnings

The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.

Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail! is a singleplayer adventure game in the Leisure Suit Larry series.

The retail version's setup executable is 16-bit and does not work on 64-bit systems; use the SquirtTheCat Installer to install the game.

General information

Can be run under ScummVM.
Leisure Suit Larry Omnipedia - Leisure Suit Larry Wiki
Al Lowe's Humor Site - The series on Al Lowe's official website
Sierra Gamers - Game page on Ken Williams' official website
Hardcore Gaming 101 - Comprehensive feature on the series
Larry Laffer Dot Net - Active fan site featuring music from Larry games
The Sierra Help Pages - Extensive troubleshooting guide
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
DOS
Windows 3.x
Windows
Mac OS
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Pre-packaged with ScummVM.
Windows
Linux
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Windows
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
Pre-packaged with DOSBox.
Windows
ZOOM Platform (unavailable)
DRM-free
Delisted on March 31, 2023.[4]
Windows
A demo is available from ScummVM.

Essential improvements

Installing the retail version on 64-bit systems

Use SquirtTheCat Installer
  1. Download SquirtTheCat Installer.
  2. Follow the instructions.
  3. Play the game.

Play without the disc

Copy file ad modify configuration file
  1. Install the game normally.
  2. Copy all the *.000, *.AUD and *.SFX files and the Movies folder from the CD to <path-to-game>.
  3. Edit <path-to-game>\RESOURCE.WIN or <path-to-game>\RESOURCE.CFG with a text editor.
  4. Modify the following values:
  • audio=<path-to-game>\MUSIC\ to audio=.\MUSIC\
  • resSfx=D:\ to resSfx=.\
  • resAud=D:\ to resAud=.\
  • resMap=D:\ to resMap=.\
  • movieDir=D:\movie to movieDir=.\movie

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\RESOURCE.CFG
Windows <path-to-game>\RESOURCE.WIN[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 2]
Linux
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/765890/pfx/[Note 3]
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\
Windows %APPDATA%\Sierra\Leisure Suit Larry 7\
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 2]
Linux
GOG.com <path-to-game>/data/lsl7.<number>, lsl7-larry7.prf
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/765890/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud
ScummVM 2.1+ supports cloud saves on third-party cloud storage services. See the ScummVM documentation for details.

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
640x480 fixed resolution, upscaled to desktop resolution (pillarboxed) in the digital re-release.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Original release plays in a 640x480 window; the digital re-release uses fullscreen.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
For DOSBox set in the DOSBox configuration file.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Controller types

Audio

Audio settings
Audio settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, Sound Effects and Voice
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Partial closed captioning
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Polish
Retail and GOG only. In case of GOG version is problem with typing diacritical letters in console. There is a little solution (in polish), but the letters Ąą, Śś and Żż for some reason still cannot be typed.
Russian
Retail version only
Spanish

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes VGA, SVGA
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Windows 3.x version might be playable on a 64-bit OS using ScummVM.
macOS (OS X)
[5]
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 4.0
Processor (CPU) Intel i486DX2 66 MHz
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 22 MB
Video card (GPU) VGA
Sound (audio device) Sound Blaster
Other 2x CD-ROM drive
Windows 3.x
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 3.1
Processor (CPU) Intel i486DX2 66 MHz
System memory (RAM) 12 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 22 MB
Video card (GPU) 640x480 resolution, 256 colors
Other 2x CD-ROM drive
Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel i486DX2
System memory (RAM) 12 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 640x480 resolution, 256 colors
Other 2x CD-ROM drive
Mac OS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7.1
Processor (CPU) Motorola 68040
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 25 MB
Other 2x CD-ROM drive
QuickTime 2.5
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.7.5
Processor (CPU) Intel Core Duo 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04
Processor (CPU) 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 256 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data. For the GOG.com release, file changes in DOSBox are redirected to <path-to-game>/cloud_saves/ even if GOG Galaxy is not used (this folder contains all redirected files, so some files in the cloud_saves folder might be temporary files or other files that do not contain saves or settings).
  3. 3.0 3.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/765890/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (765890) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Update - last accessed on May 2023
  2. Update - last accessed on May 2023
  3. Update - last accessed on May 2023
  4. Electronic Arts - Codemasters De-Listing Notice - last accessed on 2023-03-21
  5. Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail! on GOG.com - last accessed on 2019-12-07
    "Mac notice: The game is 32-bit only and will not work on macOS 10.15 and up."