Exhuminator wrote:Awesome. I'm not "in the know" for GOG. I had no idea the emu was built in. Assumed you had the file but the rest was up to you.
When you download a GOG game, it has no DRM, meaning you can play the game offline or back up the installation executable however you like. When you install GOG versions of DOS games, the install makes a shortcut on your desktop. You just double click the shortcut and the game starts up perfectly, no screwing around with emulator settings required. Each game is tailored specific by the GOG crew to utilize DOSbox perfectly per instance. It's a fantastic service.[/quote]
Also note, you can apply patches to these games, and they should continue to work without issue. For instance, there are a few games on GOG (that are non-D&D, so I won't name names for the purpose of this thread) that were older releases which lack certain features found in later versions (such as features added to a European release that were not in an American release). Updates for these can often be found on the GOG forums, along with mods or the like that might be necessary to modernize the experience, such as adding in more modern resolutions, better utilized mouse support, etc.
And if you really want the majority of the work taken out of your hands, GOG has a downloadable service called Galaxy which operates similar to Steam (albeit still not fully featured and in Beta), though you can still go in the back end to back up installation files and the like if you would prefer or choose to ignore the service entirely and do things the old fashioned way.
Anyway, to add to the discussion at hand, I also recommend the Eye of the Beholder games, and they are real time. I really need to get back to Eye of the Beholder II some day...
On my backlog.
