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Older PC games coming, downloadable and DRM-free
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The following comments relate to this news article:
article published on 12 July, 2008
Good Old Games, a European gaming company, has announced that it will begin allowing gamers to access and download old PC games that are very hard to find legally or have been abandoned.
The company will provide titles from as far back as the early 80's and in a downloadable format that is completely DRM-free. The games will also be reasonably priced, ranging from $5.99 to $9.99 per title. ... [ read the full article ]
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SuckRaven
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12. July 2008 @ 00:56 |
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It's everything I've always wanted... I can finally play the awesome DOS title 'Crime' on modern hardware. SWEEETNESS !!!
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dragnandy
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12. July 2008 @ 01:11 |
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woo! Oregon trail! =D
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windsong
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12. July 2008 @ 01:19 |
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Um...FAIL.
Every game known to man..on P2P or Usenet. Just go to the "old games" newsgroup and request whatever you want..for free.
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osteotome
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12. July 2008 @ 01:21 |
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Originally posted by windsong:
Um...FAIL.
Every game known to man..on P2P or Usenet. Just go to the "old games" newsgroup and request whatever you want..for free.
So much for this lead.
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12. July 2008 @ 01:32 |
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Originally posted by windsong:
Um...FAIL.
Every game known to man..on P2P or Usenet. Just go to the "old games" newsgroup and request whatever you want..for free.
That is also not legal, as you very well know.
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12. July 2008 @ 01:43 |
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Originally posted by dragnandy:
woo! Oregon trail! =D
Haha, that gave me a good laugh.
On topic though, this could potentially be a big hit if they do it correctly. I have wanted to play several of my old games that don't run on XP (much less Vista!) and haven't been able to.
Their are also several games that are, as stated in the article, older and no longer available for purchase. With the exception to illegal and possibly shady sources of pirated copies up until this launches I've been outta luck. =(
I'll happily give this service a whirl when it launches in September.
Peace
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12. July 2008 @ 06:10 |
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Originally posted by DVDBack23:
Originally posted by windsong:
Um...FAIL.
Every game known to man..on P2P or Usenet. Just go to the "old games" newsgroup and request whatever you want..for free.
That is also not legal, as you very well know.
Not good.
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Xian
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12. July 2008 @ 07:51 |
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A lot of the older DOS games are completely playable on the DOSBox emulator but a lot of people have issues getting them to run properly, especially if they were not familar with the DOS command line and installation procedures from years ago. Having a nice front end for running them and being able to obtain the games legally DRM free like GoG is trying to do sounds great to me, especially at the price point they are talking about.
Even if I would obtain the old games through alternate means or find them on Ebay, I might not be able to install them anyway. I don't see a 5 1/4" floppy on my current computer, or a 3.5" for that matter. Several of the older games like ones from Access Software and others would look at the floppy disk volume label during installation.
I am really behind the idea and hope that they can get many more copyright holders of old games on board and allow them to be offered.
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narmo
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12. July 2008 @ 11:01 |
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would games like counter strike be there. i can't find it in stores. that would be the only game i would buy. best game ever
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12. July 2008 @ 11:16 |
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Hey i liked Oregon Trail. :)
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12. July 2008 @ 11:17 |
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Originally posted by narmo:
would games like counter strike be there. i can't find it in stores. that would be the only game i would buy. best game ever
Although its DRM-laced you can get CS directly from Steam for $9.99, see here.
Since CS is a newer game (release date 2000) I don't think they will have that one for a while.
I could be wrong but this site is looking to get older games back in peoples hands and on their minds.
From the looks of it I don't think something as recent as CS is going to be on their for a while, if ever.
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12. July 2008 @ 11:58 |
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12. July 2008 @ 12:59 |
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How about just use Gametap?
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xdgen84
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12. July 2008 @ 16:46 |
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This is some cool news, can't wait
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PeterKang
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12. July 2008 @ 20:10 |
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Sounds wonderful but who's the company and do they have a website where they show what games they are thinking of releasing?
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Peter
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varnull
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12. July 2008 @ 20:16 |
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Fleecing money out of people for discontinued games and abandonware.. In a sensible world these would have been public domain years ago, like all the sinclair roms are.
Go get them people.. they are all over the net already, free and illegal. Who in their right mind pays for something like Pitstop II anyway.. the company who wrote it are long long gone so you aren't doing the developers out of anything, just some greedy "buy it to stop people having it" POS publisher like Amstrad.
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pmshah
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17. July 2008 @ 00:50 |
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Originally posted by Xian:
A lot of the older DOS games are completely playable on the DOSBox emulator but a lot of people have issues getting them to run properly, especially if they were not familar with the DOS command line and installation procedures from years ago. Having a nice front end for running them and being able to obtain the games legally DRM free like GoG is trying to do sounds great to me, especially at the price point they are talking about.
Even if I would obtain the old games through alternate means or find them on Ebay, I might not be able to install them anyway. I don't see a 5 1/4" floppy on my current computer, or a 3.5" for that matter. Several of the older games like ones from Access Software and others would look at the floppy disk volume label during installation.
I am really behind the idea and hope that they can get many more copyright holders of old games on board and allow them to be offered.
So far as the actual drives are concerned you need only a free utility called filedisk. It creates virtual drives which allow loading of floppy disk images absolutely flawlessly. I haven't used floppy drive in about 6 years. This "filedisk" system has never failed me. Only thing you can't do is boot from it. But then you have BCDW to take care of that problem.
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hel13
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