Sneaksie on 19/1/2010 at 07:28
Personally, i just don't get this GOG.com hype. When i first heard about it, i was excited - someone finally decided to make old games compatible with modern systems and make money from it. Great. But in fact they just get some old game, throw in freeware and opensource DosBox and sell this for 5 or 9 bucks. What's the point? Why pay for this?
Jah on 19/1/2010 at 09:35
Quote Posted by Sneaksie
What's the point? Why pay for this?
Because you can't get those old games from your local games store, and purchasing a digital download is easier than hunting for a second-hand copy at eBay?
Timeslip on 19/1/2010 at 15:29
Quote Posted by Brian The Dog
Edit - I tried having ddfix.dll called ddraw.dll in the game directories, and it worked fine providing the Video Fix was NOT enabled in the .ini file. Slightly wierd things happened when playing the movies in-game otherwise!
I tried doing that in the official releases, but it caused a lot of conflicts with other programs. (Some third party video codecs and fraps spring to mind.) It works for some, but it's not something that would work in general.
On the other hand, GoG already use sfall (my ddfix equivalent for fallout 1/2) in their fallout 1 downloads, (but apparently not fallout 2, oddly...) so they aren't adverse to bundling that sort of program. They are usually pretty good at checking that things work on modern systems, and hunting down appropriate patches when they don't.
theBlackman on 20/1/2010 at 02:25
I have the "Complete Collection" with Gold/TMA/TDS and installed and am running it on XP with no patches or tweaks needed to run or install.
TDS is Ver. 1.1 and XP accepts all of them easily for installation and playing without jumping through any hoops.
Gold is Ver. 1.37, TMA is version 1.18 and the collection is by Mastertronics via SOLDOUT.
