You’re looking at a one-of-a-kind opportunity to own a piece of computer game history: my archives of LSL1: Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards.
When I finished creating Larry 1, I thought I should keep a clean archive of everything needed to recreate the game, so I copied all the source code, text, animation, background art, music, sound effect… everything I could to these floppies. I then packed them in a box (that once contained blank floppies that I bought to produce my games before my Sierra days). I then put that yellow box into a black storage box where it sat, undisturbed, for over 30 years!
Now you can own that box. Look carefully at the photos to see all the treasuries I found. Even I was surprised! You see, back then, programmers like me had to keep track of their own resources. Sierra never kept any archives. If I didn’t keep everything, it would have been lost.
You’ll have the original shipping master disk that I gave to Sierra and from which all subsequent copies were made. There’s also a 3.5" disk that contains a complete ZIP file of Larry 1, plus a ZIP of The Black Cauldron, which has no business being here. (I don’t know why, but it’s yours if you want it!) I noticed that I used the Larry labels to indicate Disk 1 and Disk 2, even of the source code and animation (which we always called “views”).
Realize that, while you’ll have my data as of the day of Larry 1’s creation, you will not own the intellectual property rights to the game, the code, the art, or anything else. Nor do I. The I. P. rights were sold over and over again, until they are now owned by a German game company.
But you will have a piece of history that no one else on the planet has.
If you like this, you may also be interested in my similar sale of the LSL2: Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places) archive that is also currently for bid.
ADDENDUM
To clarify, this source code is for the game only, not the game engine. I've never seen the AGI or SCI codebase. And without that, you cannot recreate a working game. But you can read comments and see how all the pieces were joined together. My code is, of course, self-documenting. <wry smile> Actually, as I recall, the comments are as funny as the game.

You’re looking at a one-of-a-kind opportunity to own a piece of computer game history: my archives of LSL2: Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places).
When I finished creating Larry 2, I thought I should keep a clean archive of everything needed to recreate the game, so I copied all the source code, text, animation, background art, music, sound effect… everything I could to these floppies. I then packed them in a box (that once contained blank floppies that I bought to produce my games before my Sierra days). I then put that yellow box into a black storage box where it sat, undisturbed, for over 30 years!
Now you can own that box. Look carefully at the photos to see all the treasuries therein. Back then, programmers like me had to keep track of their own resources. Sierra never kept any archives. If I didn’t keep everything, it would have been lost.
You even see the holes drilled in the upper-left of the 3.5" floppies to “convert” them from single density to double density (so they’d hold twice as much data). I drilled those in my own garage! (And evidently cracked one in the process.) The 6 game disks are the master disks I gave to Sierra from which all subsequent copies were made. Notice that I backed up everything to both 5.25" disks and 3.5" disks; who knew if those new-fangled little floppies were going to keep? There’s even a set of 4 backup disks for the Atari ST version using a new program called Fastback Plus and dated 12/14/88.
Realize that, while you’ll have my data as of the day of Larry 2’s creation, you will not own the intellectual property rights to the game, the code, the art, or anything else. Nor do I. The I. P. rights were sold over and over again, until they are now owned by a German game company.
But you will have a piece of history that no one else on the planet has. Including the master patch disk for Version 2, which fixed a parser bug inserted on the last day of testing.
If you like this, you may also be interested in my similar sale of the LSL1: Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards archive that is also currently for bid.
To clarify, this source code is for the game only, not the game engine. I've never seen the AGI or SCI codebase. And without that, you cannot recreate a working game. But you can read comments and see how all the pieces were joined together. My code is, of course, self-documenting. <wry smile> Actually, as I recall, the comments are as funny as the game.

This is not just a 32-year-old computer game disk; it’s the disk that inspired me to create Leisure Suit Larry!
In 1986, I was looking for a new project and asked Ken Williams what he wanted from me next. He mused about how Softporn had been a huge hit in the early days of Sierra.
At a time when Apple had only sold 100,000 Apple ][’s, Ken had sold 25,000 copies of Softporn. And everyone I knew had a pirated version! It’s safe to say it was the most popular game of the period. Heck, when Time Magazine began to cover home computers, half of their first section was about Softporn. It was a big deal.
Ken wondered if I could “bring it up to date” by using Sierra’s new AGI engine. I said that, while I had played it back in its day, I couldn’t remember much about it. He gave me this disk and sent me home to play it. I did.
I reported back to him that “this game is so out of touch it should be wearing a leisure suit!” and got a big laugh from everyone in the room. I continued, “The only way I could do this game is if I could make fun ofit. Make it a comedy.” Since I was going to create the new game on spec, with no advances, he agreed.
Wait. What? Did I just volunteer to create a comedy computer game? At a time when I could count all the funny games I’d ever heard of on the thumbs of my hands? Yep. And that’s how Leisure Suit Larry was born.
And now you have the opportunity to own the disk that made Larry possible. This is that disk,the one Ken gave me, the one I played and didn’t think could be remade, the one that birthed Larry Laffer. Sure, there’s no box – because I didn’t get a box. But you get a unique piece of video game history!
This is a 5.25-inch floppy, with the old “Sierra On-Line, Inc Mudge Ranch Road” label, complete with Sierra’s then-phone number and its Telex number. (You kids can look that up on Wikipedia.) It’s inside a genuine brown Sierra On-Line, Inc Tyvex sleeve, complete with handling and care information on the back. The copyright date is 1981, which was when the original Softporn for the Apple ][ came out.

This is the original disk that I used to create one of the early Sierra Christmas Cards, disks that were originally sent to friends and family of the company, and in later years, were made available to the public.
Since I don’t have a way to read this disk any more, I can’t tell you what year it's from. All I know is: I worked on the first one and didn’t work on any after that, so this has to be early on!
Since it’s lettered in my handwriting, I suspect this is the disk that was used to create the master disk. It’s a little bit of history that many of us remember fondly. How many game companies give away Christmas gift disks?

Bop-A-Bet is an extremely rare, 1982 Apple ][ educational game from Sunnyside Soft, the software company that I created along with my wife and the MacChesneys. My second game, I wrote it in my home office, before our new daughter took it away from me for her bedroom, relegating me to code in our laundry room. Sunnyside Soft sold these games out of our home (yes, that’sour home address and telephone number on the packaging) for a few months in genuine zip-lock baggies(!) before Sierra bought the rights and repackaged it in their boxes.
Only 200 copies of this version were made and all were sold, except this one copy, numbered “18,” which I’ve lovingly stored for 36 years! I’m sure it’s the best-preserved example on Earth!
This game is complete (see the photos) and in excellent condition for its 36 years. It includes the game disk in its original “ElephantDisk – ‘Never Forgets’” sleeve, the parent’s guide and a genuine Sunnyside Soft registration card. Those disks came in bright yellow boxes, which I saved and used to archive other games. See my other auctions here for LSL1: Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards and LSL2: Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places) source code.
The front of the package says that this game requires 48KB of RAM. If you have less than that, please don’t bid! Otherwise, “bid early, bid often!” And DOS 3.3 refers to Apple DOS.
Bop-A-Bet was also released in a Sierra box in 1983, but even that version is extremely rare. It was never a big seller and I doubt you’ll find another copy for sale. This may be your only chance to add this game to your collection.
As always, I’ll autograph it for you, if you want. Or not. Your call.

Dragon’s Keep is an extremely rare, 1982 Apple ][ educational game from Sunnyside Soft, the software company that I created along with my wife and the MacChesneys. My very first game, I wrote it in my hom eoffice, before our new daughter took it away from me for her bedroom, relegating me to code in our laundry room. Seriously.
Sunnyside Soft sold these games out of our home (yes, that’sour home address and telephone number on the packaging) for a few months in genuine zip-lock baggies(!) before Sierra bought the rights and repackaged it in their boxes.
Only 200 copies of this version were made and all were sold, except this one copy, numbered “016,” which I’ve lovingly stored for 36 years! I’m sure it’s the best-preserved example on Earth!
This game is complete (see the photos) and in excellent condition for its 36 years. It includes the game disk in its original “ElephantDisk – ‘Never Forgets’” sleeve, the parent’s guide and a genuine Sunnyside Soft registration card. Those disks came in bright yellow boxes, which I saved and used to archive other games. See my other auctions here for the sourcecode to LSL1: Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards and LSL2: Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places).
The front of the package says that this game requires 48KB of RAM. If you have less than that, please don’t bid! Otherwise, “bid early, bid often!” And DOS 3.3 refers to Apple DOS.
Dragon’s Keep was also released in a Sierra box in 1983, but even that version is extremely rare. It was never a big seller. This may be your only chance to add this game, inits original packaging and in mint condition, to your collection.
As always, I’ll autograph it for you, if you want. Or not. Your call.

Gast schrieb am 29.06.2010, 21:44:
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