The GOG Preservation Program Makes Games Live Forever | GOG.COM
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GOG commits its own resources to maintain classic titles playable, now and in the future. We are launching the program with 100 games and will add more in the next few months.
  • btaf45@lemmy.worldEnglish
    741·
    1 month ago

    [We still strive to get as many DRM-free titles as possible on GOG, regardless of when they were first released.]

    This is why I will always buy a game on GOG rather than Steam if I can.

  • cmnyboEnglish
    44·
    1 month ago

    I just hope they will also provide the unmodified versions for people that want to play them on original hardware.

    • qyron@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      191·
      1 month ago

      At some point it just makes more sense to run emulators, like it is already done with the classic gaming consoles.

      Ideally, we would get a push to release source after a given time, in order to have true conservation efforts.

      7 Kingdoms had its source released and was almost instantly ported to run natively on Linux. And from someone who played that game as a teen and truly enjoyed it, I admit it’s not that much of a game! There are thousands of titles that deserve this attention.

      Off the top of my head I can think of:

      • Black&White
      • The Punisher (this title was even censored due to graphical content)
      • the original Starcraft and Warcraft
      • Pharaoh
      • Anno 1602 (I am aware a FOSS “clone” exists)
      • Evolva
      • Syndicate

      I could go on forever…

    • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.mlEnglish
      7·
      1 month ago

      Don’t they just slap a custom configured dosbox in the folder and point to it for launch? Could just strip out dosbox and have the thing.

      • adr1an@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        22 days ago

        I played that on a LOTR-themed felucca-only shard, and hosted a runUO server myself for friends later when no one was playing it anymore. Great memories, I kind of enjoyed the “blue vs. red” factions of the early game, like 1999.

  • mPony@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 month ago

    I love that they have Ultima 4 available for free. I spent SO many hours in that world. The “what kind of person are you” value judgment questions at the beginning were remarkably heavy for introspective teenage me.

    • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
      15·
      1 month ago

      I think you’ve missed the point.

      Yes, they’re looking to continue selling older titles and your point is that pirating / torrenting is free, but GoG are ensuring the game will actually run on a modern machine - the pirated ones will have problems (not even covering the potential malware ridden ones)

      I’ve been there, done it, got the t-shirt, the t-shirt faded, got ripped and is now a rag somewhere… this is a good move by GoG.