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Posted March 21, 2019
We used this year’s spring cleaning to dust off some of the great DOS classics.

Thanks to the partnership and long-time cooperation with the DOSBox Crew, together we’ve managed to enhance with cloud saves feature over 100 classics, with more to come.

Since the introduction of the Universal Cloud Saves to GOG Galaxy, the feature has been added to more and more all-time classics that never offered save syncing and cloud backups. Working closely with DOSBox Crew and adding cloud saves to older games is another step that we take to improve gamers experience with good old games.

Many of these cloud saves enabled DOS classics joined the Spring Sale line up offering savings for such must-haves like Colonization (-75%), Dungeon Keeper Gold (-75%), Heroes of Might and Magic (-75%), Alone in the Dark: The Trilogy 1+2+3 (-75%), Wing Commander III (-75%), classic X-COMs (-75%), and many more.
Posted March 21, 2019
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You've been asking for a list of games that support cloud saves. For all games with cloud saves support you can go to this listing.

As for the current list of DOS games supporting cloud saves, they are:

Albion
Alien Rampage
Alone in the Dark 1+2+3
Al-Quadim: The Genie's Curse
An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire
Apache Longbow
Battle Chess Special Edition
Battle Isle Platinum
Bio Menace
Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold
Blake Stone: Planet Strike
Blood: One Unit Whole Blood
BloodNet
Caesar
Caesar II
Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet
Cannon Fodder
Cannon Fodder 2
Capitalism Plus
Castles 1+2
Catacombs Pack
Challenge of the Five Realms
Conquest of the New World
Constructor
Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure
Crusader: No Remorse
Crusader: No Regret
Crystal Caves
Cyberia
Cyberia 2: Resurrection
Dangerous Dave Pack
D&D Stronghold: Kingdom Simulator
Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Sun Series
Dungeons & Dragons: Krynn Series
Dungeons & Dragons: Ravenloft Series
Death Gate
DOOM II + Final DOOM
Dragon Wars
Dragonsphere
Duke Nukem 1+2
Duke Nukem 3D
Dungeon Keeper Gold
Eradicator
F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter 2.0
Falcon Collection
Fantasy General
Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection One
Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection Two
Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection Three
Fragile Allegiance
Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist
Harvester
Hind
Hocus Pocus
Heroes of Might and Magic
Heroes of Might and Magic 2: Gold
Ignition
Ishar Compilation
Jagged Alliance
Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games
Jazz Jackrabbit Collection
Jill of the Jungle: The Complete Trilogy
Kingdom: The Far Reaches
Knights of the Sky
Litil Divil
Little Big Adventure
Little Big Adventure 2
Lords of the Realm: Royal Edition
Lost Eden
Magic Carpet Plus
Magic Carpet 2: The Netherworlds
Master of Magic
Master of Orion 1+2
Megarace 1
Might and Magic 6-pack Limited Edition
Monster Bash
Normality
Patrician 1+2
Personal Nightmare
Pinball World
Pirates! Gold Plus
Police Quest Collection
Police Quest: SWAT 1+2
Populous
Populous 2: Trials of the Olympian Gods
Privateer 2: The Darkening
Quest for Glory 1-5
Rayman Forever
Realms of Arkania 2 & 3
Realms of Chaos
Red Baron 1
Return to Zork
Rex Nebular
Rise of the Triad
Robinson's Requiem
Screamer
Secret Agent
Sensible World of Soccer 96/97
Seven Cities of Gold: Commemorative Edition
Sid Meier's Colonization
Sid Meier's Covert Action
SimCity 2000 Special Edition
Softporn Adventure
Space Rogue Classic
Starflight 1 & 2
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary
Star Trek: Judgment Rites
Stargunner
Strike Commander
Subwar 2050 Complete
Syndicate Plus
Syndicate Wars
Terminal Velocity
Terra Nova
Tex Murphy 1 & 2
The Adventures of Willy Beamish
The Dame Was Loaded
The Elder Scrolls: Arena
The Last Express
Theme Hospital
Theme Park
The Ultimate DOOM
Time Commando
Tyrian 2000
Ultima Worlds of Adventure 2: Martian Dreams
Ultima 1+2+3
Ultima 4+5+6
Ultima 4: Quest of the Avatar
Ultima 8 Gold Edition
Ultima Underworld 1+2
VR Soccer '96
Wacky Wheels
Waxworks
Wing Commander: Privateer
Wing Commander 1+2
Wing Commander 3 Heart of the Tiger
Wing Commander: Privateer
Wolfenstein 3D + Spear of Destiny
World Rally Fever: Born on the Road
Worlds of Ultima™ : The Savage Empire
Worms United
X-COM: Apocalypse
X-COM: Terror from the Deep
X-COM: Ufo Defense
Zork Anthology
Zork Nemesis

EDIT: will be updating the list as more games are being added
Post edited March 22, 2019 by Thiev
Posted March 21, 2019
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trusteft: Ah....you confused me.

I am worried about downloading these new installers (and I hate that I don't have the option to download previous versions but anyway) since I heard people having issues with them. I don't care about the client and only want offline installers. As far as I know the client is no longer attached with the offline installers, so...yeah, no idea.
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MightyPinecone: The client itself doesn't come with the non-Galaxy stand alone versions of the games, but there are some files that Galaxy make use of that also comes with the non-Galaxy versions. This is supposedly so that it becomes easy to import the games into Galaxy should you ever want to, and also–I'd wager‒because keeping multiple versions of the games up to date and running without a hitch is a pain in the ass. So yes, non-Galaxy versions of games also contains some Galaxy related files, and when these get updated, both Galaxy bundled installers and non-Galaxy installers becomes updated.
I'm one of those who only download and use non-Galaxy, offline, standalone (or whatever you want to call them) installers and too was concerned about what had changed in these installers to accommodate Galaxy cloud saves.

So, I tested out three different games and installed both the prior and new standalone installation versions of these games. I then compared the installed game folders and can confirm that the changes are as follows:

1. DosBox has been updated from version 0.74 to 0.74-2.1
2. The DosBox config files have been updated to accommodate the new version of DosBox. From what I could see there have been no changes made to the DosBox game specific settings in these config files (although this may be game specific).
3. A couple of GOG dll files have been deleted (GameuxInstallHelper.dll & goggame.dll).
4. A few other goggame files have changed.
5. A new goglog.ini file has been added.
6. The GOG DosBox Configuration utility (Launch Settings / Launch Setup) shortcut has been deleted. The utility is still available via the Windows Start menu.
7. The game uninstall program and files have been changed accordingly.
8. A new webcache.zip file (~300 to 400kB) is installed.
9. A new (empty) cloud_saves folder has been added.

The new installation folders are around 1 to 2 MB larger.than before.

There are NO changes to any of the original DOS game files.

BTW - I had no issues installing the new versions of games with Norton Security running, e.g. the new DosBox SDL.dll and SDL_net.dll were left untouched.
Post edited March 21, 2019 by ikrananka
Posted March 21, 2019
Wow! What a great feature! Well done, Qbix and the rest of the team! I'm looking forward to you adding it to the SVN!
Posted March 21, 2019
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KevinAmedy: I just tried that on a few games, and I get two error messages.

SDL_net.dll not found

SDL.dll not found

What do they mean?
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squid_80: For some reason BitDefender has started detecting these files as malicious and removes them, even though they're exactly the same as the ones included in earlier installs.
Disable BitDefender and verify your games with the galaxy client (look a few posts up for instructions).
I do not have BitDefender. I have windows 10 64bit with Wndows Defender.
Post edited March 21, 2019 by KevinAmedy
Posted March 21, 2019
So have you installed Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable?
Posted March 21, 2019
Very well, job well done, congratulations guys, a lot of work must have gotten into this :)
Posted March 21, 2019
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teceem: So have you installed Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable?
I have finished installing Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable, and now the two error messages have changed. They still say the two SDL.dll files are missing, but they now suggest that progams may need to be reinstalled.

Am I making progress? It will be so much fun to have to uninstall and reinstall all 15 DOS games. Thank you so much, GOG.

I have e-mailed GOG tech support about my problem.
Posted March 21, 2019
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teceem: So have you installed Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable?
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KevinAmedy: I have finished installing Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable, and now the two error messages have changed. They still say the two SDL.dll files are missing, but they now suggest that progams may need to be reinstalled.

Am I making progress? It will be so much fun to have to uninstall and reinstall all 15 DOS games. Thank you so much, GOG.

I have e-mailed GOG tech support about my problem.
So try to reinstall one and see if it helps. You're not playing all 15 at once, right?
Posted March 21, 2019
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KevinAmedy: I have finished installing Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable, and now the two error messages have changed. They still say the two SDL.dll files are missing, but they now suggest that progams may need to be reinstalled.

Am I making progress? It will be so much fun to have to uninstall and reinstall all 15 DOS games. Thank you so much, GOG.

I have e-mailed GOG tech support about my problem.
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teceem: So try to reinstall one and see if it helps. You're not playing all 15 at once, right?
I did the reinstall, and the game works now. Thank you to everyone who helped me.
Posted March 21, 2019
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elcook: You've been asking for a list of games that support cloud saves. For all games with cloud saves support you can go to this listing.

As for the current list of DOS games supporting cloud saves, they are:

*SNIP*
This is super helpful, thanks for the reply.
Posted March 22, 2019
this is a great day
Posted March 22, 2019
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elcook: DOOM II + Final DOOM
Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection One
Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection Two
Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection Three
Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist
Master of Magic
Pirates! Gold Plus
Police Quest Collection
Police Quest: SWAT 1+2
Populous
Populous 2: Trials of the Olympian Gods
Quest for Glory 1-5
Sid Meier's Colonization
SimCity 2000 Special Edition
Theme Hospital
The Ultimate DOOM
Wing Commander 1+2
Wing Commander: Privateer
Just these alone are cause to celebrate. Now if you could get the Civilization series to support cloud saves, I could die happy.
Also, I'm amazed that there are new features released for games no longer for sale, ex. Duke Nukem. I was not expecting that.
Post edited March 22, 2019 by Reynard_Muldrake
Posted March 22, 2019
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MightyPinecone: The client itself doesn't come with the non-Galaxy stand alone versions of the games, but there are some files that Galaxy make use of that also comes with the non-Galaxy versions. This is supposedly so that it becomes easy to import the games into Galaxy should you ever want to, and also–I'd wager‒because keeping multiple versions of the games up to date and running without a hitch is a pain in the ass. So yes, non-Galaxy versions of games also contains some Galaxy related files, and when these get updated, both Galaxy bundled installers and non-Galaxy installers becomes updated.
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ikrananka: I'm one of those who only download and use non-Galaxy, offline, standalone (or whatever you want to call them) installers and too was concerned about what had changed in these installers to accommodate Galaxy cloud saves.

So, I tested out three different games and installed both the prior and new standalone installation versions of these games. I then compared the installed game folders and can confirm that the changes are as follows:

1. DosBox has been updated from version 0.74 to 0.74-2.1
2. The DosBox config files have been updated to accommodate the new version of DosBox. From what I could see there have been no changes made to the DosBox game specific settings in these config files (although this may be game specific).
3. A couple of GOG dll files have been deleted (GameuxInstallHelper.dll & goggame.dll).
4. A few other goggame files have changed.
5. A new goglog.ini file has been added.
6. The GOG DosBox Configuration utility (Launch Settings / Launch Setup) shortcut has been deleted. The utility is still available via the Windows Start menu.
7. The game uninstall program and files have been changed accordingly.
8. A new webcache.zip file (~300 to 400kB) is installed.
9. A new (empty) cloud_saves folder has been added.

The new installation folders are around 1 to 2 MB larger.than before.

There are NO changes to any of the original DOS game files.

BTW - I had no issues installing the new versions of games with Norton Security running, e.g. the new DosBox SDL.dll and SDL_net.dll were left untouched.
Thank you. I will take your word for it that it is safe.
The more I think about this the more I don't like it.
Post edited March 22, 2019 by trusteft
Posted March 22, 2019
Thank you for everything you do for us and make our gaming experience better every time
Posted March 22, 2019
Albion with cloud saves.

You just made my day. Two thumbs up for GOG! <3
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