New Horizon on 31/1/2012 at 17:02
Quote Posted by TheJoe
It's obviously not an original executable, but whether it's freshly compiled from the source code leak, I have no idea. Some files and utilities I saw in the leak are present here, but I don't know if they came from DROMED or were included on an original CD version or something. They are QUAKE.BND, UNREAL.BND, BSP.EXE, 3DS2E.EXE and CSGMERGE.EXE.
The source code 'leak' and the source code given to Eidos by the former LGS developer are two different source packages.
The leak was from a Sega Dreamcast port of the game that never got very far, that code was supposedly newer than the version given to Eidos by the LGS developer.
Dante on 31/1/2012 at 17:13
I'd really love to play this on my Mac using CrossOver games but I'm so scared it won't work. I bought the GamersGate TDP and it just white-screened when I tried to run it after installation.
lost_soul on 31/1/2012 at 17:14
That's a DDFix+wine problem. I had it a wile ago and someone pointed me to a solution. Sorry, it was forever ago and I don't remember what it was.
Dante on 31/1/2012 at 17:17
Oh, thanks. I'll do some digging then. In the event that I can't find the solution—the same problem should occur with the GOG version, right?
wonderfield on 31/1/2012 at 17:52
As I recall, GoG took some heat for not properly attributing the authors of DOSBox, but I can't find any articles about it.
The price is high, though. GoG should not have even allowed the $9.99 price point, as it's continually abused by publishers who want to milk their back catalog for every cent they possibly can.
Downloading now. I'm curious as to whether the included soundtrack was arranged by Child of Karras.
Briareos H on 31/1/2012 at 18:01
Sounds like it.
Sneaksie on 31/1/2012 at 18:25
So, they chose not to include anything. Judging by posts on gog forum, the exe runs only on one core (this is doable in a minute via imagecfg.exe utility by anyone), but that's it. No ddfix and no widescreen support mean the usual problems only fixable by... ddfix.
I still can't grasp why people keep throwing money at that company. To get old games legally? But apparently gog.com couldn't care less about legal issues when owner of the rights is not a big corporation like Square Enix and can't sue them to nowhere.
BTW, .BND files are simply keyboard mappings. Unreal one is similar to Unreal control scheme and Quake... you got it.
wonderfield on 31/1/2012 at 19:01
They didn't remove CoK's name from the soundtrack tags, so that's something, at least.
Yandros on 31/1/2012 at 19:11
That's something, but is CoK going to get a cent from GoG for each $9.99 paid for the game? I'm guessing not. If they didn't request and get his permission to redistribute the files, he might have a case against them.
lost_soul on 31/1/2012 at 19:18
But technically, was the soundtrack officially sanctioned to begin with? If not, it would kind of be like "You used our content without permission, now we're using that altered content without your permission". lol
