🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 06 Jul 2013 00:24:37 +0400, "Andrew Rybenkov"
<arybenkov@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Sat, 06 Jul 2013 00:03:59 +0400, John Lewis <john.dsl@frontier.com> wrote:
>
>> updated for modern
>> OS
>
>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)?
>

Access to source-code, use DOSBox and/or hand-modify the .exes and/or
.dlls?  Who cares?.... as long as the game run flawlessly and the
presence of the enabler is completely buried in the GOG-installer,
which it is...  And, remember, GOG requires a DRM-free image, so 
they may well have to go in and reverse-engineer game executables or
.dlls from developers long since vanished.

You may not know, but GOG.com is an offshoot of CDProjekt Red, the
Witcher developer, so I'm sure GOG has access to some pretty competent
game programmers if needed. Some games that require more than DOSbox
or "Setting to XP/98/whatever mode" have been fixed by GOG.  Quantic
Dreams  classic "Omikron" (originally releaed for Win98/ME) in its
original CD form had sluggish UI and froze up completely on the Map
screen under WinXP also  refused to run on Win7, The GOG release runs
just fine in XP and Win7-64 on the latest hardware..

Do you have some grudge against GOG ??

I personally have acquired pretty large collections of both Steam- and
GOG- sourced games, but for games available on both, will always
choose GOG when the price becomes "right". 

For instance, "Tales of Monkey Island Complete" went in the GOG Summer
Sale (just ended) for $5.24, (totally DRM-free, of course); the price
on Steam was $34.99.

John Lewis


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>Andrew Rybenkov