{"id":66200,"date":"2018-11-30T21:47:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T21:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/331913"},"modified":"2018-11-30T21:47:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T21:47:00","slug":"former-sierra-on-line-dev-posts-original-source-codes-to-ebay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/30\/former-sierra-on-line-dev-posts-original-source-codes-to-ebay\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Sierra On-Line dev posts original source codes to eBay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Sierra On-Line developer and creator of the Leisure Suit Larry <\/em>games Al Lowe is listing the original source code for games he worked on\u00a0<\/em>to eBay<\/a>, with more to follow.<\/p>\n

It’s always nice to see a developer unearth\u00a0and share their old collection of work with the rest of the community.<\/p>\n

However, it’s a bit of a shame the games aren’t being donated (at the time of publication) to an organization\u00a0like the Video Game History Foundation<\/a>\u00a0for preservation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As reported by Ars Technica,<\/a>\u00a0Lowe plans on listing more of his collection to eBay, which will likely\u00a0include his other Leisure Suit Larry<\/em>\u00a0games, Kings Quest III, <\/em>and Police Quest I<\/em>.<\/p>\n

As of right now,\u00a0the source code for\u00a0Leisure Suit Larry 2\u00a0<\/em>is currently bidding at\u00a0over $2,000 USD.<\/p>\n

In addition, Lowe explains that he saved the original backups of his complete programming pipeline, which include\u00a0the Sierra utilities that converted plain-text, ASCII commands to interpreted code.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lowe warns potential buyers that the disks haven’t been tested so there’s no guarantee that they will work, and owning the disks does not grant legal rights to commercially redistribute\u00a0them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Realize that, while you\u2019ll have my data as of the day of\u00a0Larry 1<\/em>\u2019s creation, you will not own the intellectual property rights to the game, the code, the art, or anything else,” Lowe says in\u00a0the Leisure Suit Larry 1\u00a0<\/em>listing<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Interested developers can see what Lowe has listed of his collection so far by clicking here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Sierra On-Line developer and creator of the Leisure Suit Larry games Al Lowe is listing the original source code for games he worked on\u00a0to eBay, with more to follow. It’s always nice to see a developer unearth\u00a0and share their old collection of work with the rest of the community. However, it’s a bit of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}