https://github.com/deckarep/larry-pops-up
Larry Pops Up! A modern recreation of an small desktop widget/toy to promote Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail
https://github.com/deckarep/larry-pops-up
desktop-toy desktop-widget leisure-suit-larry raylib sci sierra sierra-online wav wave ziglang
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Larry Pops Up! A modern recreation of an small desktop widget/toy to promote Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/deckarep/larry-pops-up
- Owner: deckarep
- Created: 2024-08-06T19:42:52.000Z (9 months ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-08-09T20:34:58.000Z (9 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-02-11T14:52:07.181Z (3 months ago)
- Topics: desktop-toy, desktop-widget, leisure-suit-larry, raylib, sci, sierra, sierra-online, wav, wave, ziglang
- Language: Zig
- Homepage:
- Size: 5.58 MB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 3
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# Larry Pops Up!
[Larry Pops Up!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisure_Suit_Larry) is a modern re-creation of a small desktop widget/toy originally created in 1996 to promote Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail. Now available for MacOS, Windows and Linux desktops!
This desktop widget is comprised of *all* add-on packs that were ever released: 1 through 5.
Made with ♥️ - Please enjoy!
-Deckarep
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# Further Details
Larry Pops Up! is more of just a fun desktop widget gag. The original version runs in the background as idle and waits for a period of inactivity. After some timeout, Larry pops on the screen in a very small 125x125 window and some random audio wav file plays where he says something funny; to you, the desktop user. Then the app simply disappears but goes back to an idle, invisible state awaiting for another timeout of inactivity. The user was able to drop in any additional WAV audio files into the widgets directory to allow any audio file sample to play. This new version does not yet do all of that and currently only plays a list of hardcoded audio samples that originally shipped with the game but also includes all add-on packs. For now, this version will also just run and play on some random interval that can be scheduled/configured by the user.
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# Like this project? Tip Al!
If you enjoy this project or have ever enjoyed any of Al Lowe's work in the past, feel free to give him a tip (buy him a coffee) over at his original homepage. Al has stated that he does not earn royalties on his games and work at Sierra. Show him some gratitude if you can. [Click here to leave him a tip! to visit: allowe.com](https://allowe.com/more/tipjar.html)
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Original version by: Don Munsil - [further details on Al Lowe's website](https://allowe.com/games/larry/even-more-larry/larry-links.html)
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# Disclaimer
This is just a fan-made resurrection of an old simple desktop toy originally created by Sierra On-Line, [Al Lowe](https://allowe.com) and Don Munsil. Larry's voice by: [Jan Rabson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Rabson). The original version was a Windows-only desktop widget.