Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail!

What works

Install works from "setup.exe" (autoplay.exe has not worked for some time)

Game starts fine using the "SIERW5.exe" installed on the hard drive.

Game also seems to play fine.

What does not

Installation also doesn't create any icons to run the game from.

Configure Wine->Windows version must be Win9x and not be WinXP, but this is the same for in real WinXP where compatibility mode must be used.

Game will not run from "autoplay.exe"

Workarounds

What was not tested

Didn't go through entire game, but gameplay looks good

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Must run the SIERW5.exe that was installed on the hard drive to get the game to run in this version of Wine. Do not run system tests! They don't work in Windows and they don't work in Wine. Make sure you follow the instructions below - especially step 1 and on the alternate ways to run the game. These instructions are also for the Win 3.x 9x version of the game. An XP version also exists, but that may require a separate version entry because Sierra tends to repackage apps wrapped in dosbox emulation.

To Install:
*Failure to set Wine Windows version to Win 98 or 95 may result in a "not enough space on drive" error.

1. Set Wine Windows version to Win 3.1, Win 95, or Win 98
2. Go to the CDROM directory containing the Leisure Suit Larry 7 Love For Sail! disk.
3. Run setup.exe using Wine (or autoplay.exe).
4. Select "Install"
5. Choose "No" for the system test.
6. Choose "Yes" to install with a failed/no system test
7. Choose "Yes" to verify the installation path
8. Click "OK" for full installation (small install has not been tested-but feel free to try if you like)
9. Installation will begin.
   
10. Creation of menu items & icons will fail. Click "OK" to these errors
11. A dialog will appear asking if you want to register.
12. After registration (or not) installation is finished

To Run:

1. Go to the CDROM directory containing the Leisure Suit Larry 7 Love For Sail! disk.
2. Run autoplay.exe using Wine.
3. Select "Run" to run the game.

Failure to Run game from Autoplay.exe on the CD:

I've seen this in previous versions of Wine where "Run" can not be selected after install in "autoplay.exe".  It looks like it came back somewhere around 1.1.2* and will likely disappear & reappear again, so I'll leave the note here.

1. Try running sierw5.exe from the CD

2. If that failed (or crashed), try running sierw5.exe from the hard drive.
   It should be installed at 
   "~/.wine/drive_c/SIERRA/LSL7/SIERW5.exe"

3. Good luck. Hope it worked.
   

* Thanks to Nick Boughton for bringing this to my attention.