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Re: Gog.com Soon On More Platforms

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Post by mstromb » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 4:49 PM UTC

gioele wrote: post #30

Did they start selling the raw ISO/floppy images? I do not understand why they keep (kept?) bundling the games' datafiles with the emulators/runtimes.

So that customers who don't want to have to mess with emulators can just buy a game and play it?

That's one of the primary reasons to use GOG - even the ancient games they sell (in my experience) Just Work. They would be far, far less successful if every customer had to become an expert in DOSBOX in order to play an impulse buy of a game from their youth.

Re: Gog.com Soon On More Platforms

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Post by Zancarius » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 7:01 PM UTC

toast0 wrote: post #28

mapleoin wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn't call Fedora 7 recent. It was released 7 years ago.

It was recent at the time when I tried (several years ago). I imagine it would fare worse now. How many sound apis have we gone through, etc

Somewhat OT, but I've actually had really fantastic luck running older Windows titles under Wine, even when those same titles won't work under Windows Vista or later. I've actually found it substantially more work to get the Linux port of Tribes 2 (from Loki) working under a modern distro than to simply run the Windows version under Wine. Gosh I wish the Tribes franchise got more attention in those days, but I think the learning curve didn't exactly help.

I really like what Loki did. It's a shame they were too early to market.

Re: Gog.com Soon On More Platforms

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Post by sentenza » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 7:39 PM UTC

nolok wrote: post #9

sentenza wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a whole load of games from GOG that you can already play on linux, be it throuhg the PlayOnLinux project or by using Dosbox. However, there are a lot of games where it feels like they should work on linux, but they just don't. For instance, Interstate76 runs fine in PlayOnLinux, but Interstate82 doesn't. There are probably a bunch of those games where the GOG team is in a position to make it work under linux…

> There's a whole load of games from GOG that you can already play on linux, be it throuhg the PlayOnLinux project or by using Dosbox. Yeah but for those that have no native linux clients that's not an officially supported way to play them, neither from GOG nor from other retailers. The reason it matters is not for people like the typical HN user but for, say, my dad which is now using a linux laptop and plays some G…

I'd still recommend PlayOnLinux for him (or rather for you to install on his laptop), since POL takes care of a lot of things for you, among which there are the different versions of Wine.

Game only works on a particular version of Wine? No problem, POL will install that specific Wine version for this game without any adverse effect on the other games.

Re: Gog.com Soon On More Platforms

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Post by barbs » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 10:29 PM UTC

mxfh wrote: post #15

If they add a native version of Alpha Centauri im sold. Loki's Alpha Centauri port was the game that didn't make me miss Windows anymore. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki_Software#Games_published That list is pretty much all I'll ever need.

Is it much different to the WINE version? I believe GOG.com wrapped it in a Wineskin wrapper for Mac...