• btaf45@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    [We still strive to get as many DRM-free titles as possible on GOG, regardless of when they were first released.]

    This is why I will always buy a game on GOG rather than Steam if I can.

  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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    21 days ago

    I just hope they will also provide the unmodified versions for people that want to play them on original hardware.

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      20 days ago

      At some point it just makes more sense to run emulators, like it is already done with the classic gaming consoles.

      Ideally, we would get a push to release source after a given time, in order to have true conservation efforts.

      7 Kingdoms had its source released and was almost instantly ported to run natively on Linux. And from someone who played that game as a teen and truly enjoyed it, I admit it’s not that much of a game! There are thousands of titles that deserve this attention.

      Off the top of my head I can think of:

      • Black&White
      • The Punisher (this title was even censored due to graphical content)
      • the original Starcraft and Warcraft
      • Pharaoh
      • Anno 1602 (I am aware a FOSS “clone” exists)
      • Evolva
      • Syndicate

      I could go on forever…

    • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml
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      20 days ago

      Don’t they just slap a custom configured dosbox in the folder and point to it for launch? Could just strip out dosbox and have the thing.

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        4 days ago

        I played that on a LOTR-themed felucca-only shard, and hosted a runUO server myself for friends later when no one was playing it anymore. Great memories, I kind of enjoyed the “blue vs. red” factions of the early game, like 1999.

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    20 days ago

    I love that they have Ultima 4 available for free. I spent SO many hours in that world. The “what kind of person are you” value judgment questions at the beginning were remarkably heavy for introspective teenage me.

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      19 days ago

      I think you’ve missed the point.

      Yes, they’re looking to continue selling older titles and your point is that pirating / torrenting is free, but GoG are ensuring the game will actually run on a modern machine - the pirated ones will have problems (not even covering the potential malware ridden ones)

      I’ve been there, done it, got the t-shirt, the t-shirt faded, got ripped and is now a rag somewhere… this is a good move by GoG.