yes but DOSbox also fixes those since you can run the game at a set speed if not then QFG4 would crash contently and other Sierra releases here would be neigh unplayable due to timing issues the point is they could of use DOSbox easily but they went with scumm probley because of it would require less testing and they could toss it out faster.

And because of that we suffer with a bastardized version of Larry 6 also it still no excuse to cut the SVGA files out

Didn't got my hand on QfG4 so far, but scummvm is indeed for some games not the perfect choice yet and needs some fixes. To switch to dosbox is in such cases a good decision, but maybe they're still in contact with the scummvm-team to fix this and we get an update soon.

Edit: I'm too slow or your too fast for me ;-) About the rest of your posting, I believe it's a long run decision to have with scummvm an easier way to fix such games, because the scummvm-team already spent much time in fixing this oldies. For gog it's of course easier and faster to use scummvm. But, if some games are really unplayable with scummvm at the moment, they should of course use dosbox for now..

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That is my point Larry 6 hi-res/SVGA is in mine and alot of others experiance quite playable and winable in DOSbox and runs as fine as any other Sierra game that used the same version of the SCI engine so I don't see why they didn't just DOSbox that version from the get go, if they honestly felt there was some performance issue then they could of just had both Larry 6 VGA with Speech running under scumm and had the SVGA version under dosbox saying "Look we tried to get this version running at a decent speed(or whatever) but for whatever reason it's a bit slow or what so we have included the lower res version running under scumm" much like Carmageddon.

Ah-ha! So it's only a question of "when"! You've planned something nasty, haven't you?

I'm still watching your every move, though! :P

I know but the thing is their policey seems to be remove files we don't use, which in the cases of Larry 6 removing the SVGA files because there not using them so "there useless" was a dumb move because it's workable and winnable in Dosbox and so when someone see that their using the graphically inferior VGA version of the game there going to go poking around and see if they can't just dosbox up the SVGA version instead not finding any files there going to wonder why there missing and so there going to post their query on the boards and people are going to see and wonder why they got the less ideal version with the better version removed completely when it was workable in Dosbox. Also removing the setup files for Ultima Underworld was silly as well since i know either have to use Pix's patcher to set the config files to use non roland MT sound or go in and change it manually which had the set up program stayed in the package I could of just booted that up and change it manually

That doesn't make them look good either, as I said I get removing broken windows versions from releases since as time goes on they become less and less workable on more and more machines but with this game that is not the case

From the DOSBox site
Game details
Leisure Suit Larry 6 - Sierra (1993)
Tested By: DesDZ

DOSBox version: 0.72 (supported)
http://www.dosbox.com/comp_list.php?showID=177&letter=L

Oh and this one of many videos on Youtube of the Hires version of this game running on Dosbox:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8yJaDtMrOw

Again not to beat a dead horse here but honestly I hate to say it but it feels like they removed it to keep people from asking "why are you guys running the lo-res VGA version and not the better SVGA one" hopefully it's not the case but honestly I really see no reason for this outside of hey slap these in scumm and we can get both mac and windows suppourted with less work and if that really was the case then that is just wrong.

But yeah my point is they really should look at that policy of just removing unused files from their releases as honestly alot of people would be less upset at the Larry release if the SVGA version was still there, yeah we would wonder why they didn't use it but we be more content as we could just slap it into dosbox ourselves.

I asked for the support if they would be able to give me the files if I bought the game, but the answer wasn't encouraging:

Great, it's Earth 2140 all over again.

Okay first it was
""We couldn't release Hi-Res version of Leisure Suit Larry 6 due to technical difficulties." and "Unfortunately it didn't run swiftly on all of our testbeds so we had to discard that version." so they yanked them out beause they couldn't run them in Scumm properly or at least that is the most logical reason we have since we have yet to see them explain what happened and if they tried to use DOSbox and they ran into issues or if they ever bothered to test it in dosbox at all.

and now there saying "yeah were not going to give you those files sorry" I'm sorry but this is getting ridiculous barring some legal licensing reason I don't see why those files should not be put back end of story. they have been shown to run just fine under dosbox and if GOG doesn't want to bother fiddling with getting it to work under DOSbox and Boxer then fine let those of us who want to bother do it then it's not like I don't have to tweak some of their dosbox releases anyway like Police Quest 2 which runs WAY to fast since they set the cycles to max in the config.

I think it'd be cool to put the files up as a bonus.