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  1. magikot

    magikot Well-Known Member

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    http://www.gog.com/?pp=f1f836cb4ea6efb2a0b1b99f41ad8b103eff4b59

    Gold old games went live in September and is a lot like Steam and Direct2Drive where you get to download all sorts of classic PC games for cheap. I just downloaded Fallout 1 & 2, as well as Gothic for under $25 and got them all in about half an hour. They are working on getting licensing for other favorites like Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, and Planescape Torment.
     
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    Philes Well-Known Member

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    Good. It's good old games.

    And yeah, if I didn't already still have working copies of all my fallout games I'd seriously give it a try.

    IF they get XCOM: UFO Defense (or UFO: Enemy Unknown to you non-US types) on there I'll sign up in a heartbeat.
     
  3. Dark Elf

    Dark Elf Administrator Staff Member

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    I knew there was something missing in my game library. I fucking love the UFO games, I remember having a full squad of grenade launcher experts in Aftermath. In open areas, shit died the hard way.
     
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    UFO was great.

    I don't have it anymore. :(

    Now I'm nostalgic. :-(
     
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    Philes Well-Known Member

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    I actually still have the old DOS version of the game that ran off a CD. Probably one of the first that did.

    I spent an entire day like 2 years ago figuring out how to get it to run on a modern XP computer using DOSBox and other programs.

    It was SO worth it.
     
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    Grossenschwamm Well-Known Member

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    They have Giants!
    I thought that game was badass. You basically start out two branches of the story as a third-person RTS, just building things to prepare new weapons or spells. The REAL game begins when you gain control of Kabuto, the giant, and you start eating things and grow to an incredible size, eventually crushing all beneath you like Godzilla.
     
  7. DarkFool

    DarkFool Nemesis of the Ancients

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    DOSBox... *shudders* whyn't just go buy an old system? I've an old 486 I'm thinking of cobbling together into a functioning machine...
     
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    Jungle Japes Well-Known Member

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    I used DOSbox to run Betrayal at Krondor a while back. It worked out pretty well. I even got the sound to work.
     
  9. Dark Elf

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    I've never been able to get the sound working in KQ6 though. A shame, that.
     
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    DarkFool Nemesis of the Ancients

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    You got BoK to work? Shit, I couldn't even get that game to run when we had a system with it's recommended specs.
     
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    If you buy FO1, FO2, or FOT, be sure to do it through the GoG ad. Helps pay the fee.
     
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    Is six the one with the girl, or the one with the prince on the islands (heir today, gone tomorrow)?

    In Heir today, I lost my manual and was subsequently unable to get through the middle-of-the-game copy protection puzzle.
     
  13. Dark Elf

    Dark Elf Administrator Staff Member

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    Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow. One of the best point-and-click adventures out there if you ask me. I've still got the manual, the disc however evaporated several years ago so I'm stuck with Dosbox which means no music or dialogue.

    There are walkthroughs for the puzzles by the way.
     
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    DarkFool Nemesis of the Ancients

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    I've all three of those. What ad are you talking about?
     
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    Last time I searched was maybe four or five years ago, to no avail. :( Many of the walkthroughs simply cut that section out. :(
     
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    By the way, for those talking about X-Com: UFO Defense.
    Try abandonware sites like http://www.abandonia.com; You can find these games on this site and can be run with DosBox. It has given me some great games, along my old favourite Master of Magic (no, not Might and Magic or Heroes of Might and Magic (I do have the serie of the later))
     
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