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Article #350762Re: GOG.com Weekend Sale (thru Sunday, July 7) --- 60% off classic Adventure games, DRM free
From: Xocyll
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 12:53
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 12:53
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john.dsl@frontier.com (John Lewis) looked up from reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say: <ss2> >available on Steam on May 10, 2013. This version, considered by >GOG.com to be a "collector's edition", includes updates to the >original game to make it work on modern systems while still allowing So exactly what do they call a "modern system" I still play this game occasionally and have never had a problem with it - I do NOT have this "updated" GOG.com version, but the original re-release from EA Classics from Summer 2000. Despite being designed for a 200MHz Pentium it runs just fine on a 3.2GHz Quad core Phenom 2. Of course I don't have ATi Video hardware and I could see that maybe making a difference since they apparently drop support for old games from their drivers all the time. Xocyll
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