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Article #350748Re: GOG.com Weekend Sale (thru Sunday, July 7) --- 60% off classic Adventure games, DRM free
From: Mike S.
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 01:10
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 01:10
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On Sat, 06 Jul 2013 00:24:37 +0400, "Andrew Rybenkov" <arybenkov@gmail.com> wrote: >do you believe this crap yourself? > >No kidding, do you believe they have sources for all games they sell, >or maybe they disassembly .com/.exe's? > >How without reprogramming you can modify a program to run on "modern systems" >(if it did not run initially)? It isn't crap. John Lewis is correct. I can't get Might and Magic VII to run properly on my Vista computer. The GOG version of the same game just works. I don't know what they did and I don't care. They can have my $5.99 for a copy of the game that installs and runs trouble free.
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