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Posted August 21, 2015
We're casting True Resurrection on Eye of the Beholder and twelve more D&D GoldBox classics.

You are sitting in a tavern. The mighty Wizards of the Coast bestow upon you their greatest treasures: Forgotten Realms: The Archives - long lost relics of an RPG renaissance that changed the face of gaming forever. Today, one of the forgotten grails of gaming history is within your grasp, should you travel to a magical, DRM-free realm known as GOG.com

Eye of the Beholder, Pool of Radiance, Menzoberranzan - the list of groundbreaking RPG classics goes on. We set out on the quest for Forgotten Realms: The Archives a long time ago, and though it was a perilous journey - after years of searching, huge help from our friends at Hasbro and Wizards of The Coast, as well as months of technical work - we get to be freaking excited to sit here and say:
Forgotten Realms: The Archives are available now, DRM-free on GOG.com





The Archives are a set of thirteen D&D GoldBox classics packaged across three collections:
--<span class="bold">Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection One</span> features Eye of the Beholder I, II, and III. It's the three and only, the gold-standard in classic RPG dungeon crawling.

--<span class="bold">Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection Two</span> features more gameplay hours and secrets than we could ever count - with Pool of Radiance, Hillsfar, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Gateway to the Savage Frontier, Pools of Darkness, Secret of the Silver Blades, Treasures of the Savage Frontier, and D&D: Unlimited Adventures.

--<span class="bold">Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection Three</span> features near-infinite replay value and and an important chunk of RPG history with Dungeon Hack and Menzoberranzan.





We are now home to precisely 20 years of digital D&D RPG history - from Pool of Radiance (1988) to Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir (2008). You can also complete your personal collection with all the remaining D&D titles on sale at up to 80% off in our early D&D Weekend Promo! Planescape Torment, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights - they're all here, so head straight to the promo page, or read more about it.






Stream watch:

We'll be featuring lots of D&D classics at Twitch.tv/GOGcom - follow us to not miss 'em or read on for the full Dungeon-and-Dragon-filled schedule below!

THURSDAY, August 20th:
2pm GMT / 4pm CEST / 10am EDT / 7am PDT: Pool of Radiance with Classicor
4pm GMT / 6pm CEST / 12pm EDT / 9am PDT: Eye of the Beholder II with MegapiemanPHD
6pm GMT / 8pm CEST / 2pm EDT / 11am PDT: Eye of the Beholder with Outstar
10pm GMT / 12am CEST / 6pm EDT / 3pm PDT: Menzoberranzan with Classicor

FRIDAY, August 21st:
6pm GMT / 8pm CEST / 2pm EDT / 11am PDT: Curse of the Azure Bonds with Piranjade

SUNDAY, August 23rd:
10pm GMT / 12am CEST / 6pm EDT / 3pm PDT: Dungeon Hack with Classicor
Posted August 21, 2015
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Ghildrean: A minor thing, but I noticed Pools of Darkness doesn't have a typical GOG icon (a round icon with a cover picture), instead it just have a square GOG logo.
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JudasIscariot: Where do you see this?
Why isn't there a working support page for these games?

I ran into troubles with Pool of Radiance, but it isn't possible eben to contact GOG about this if you use the Links in the support section.

Would be nice to get some help here, GOG.

In my case i can't navigate Pool of Radiance menus, graphics and letters are incomplete, an the arrow buttons or page up / page down doens't work.

At least not if i play in fullscreen mode. In the rather small windowed mode the graphics look alright, and if I use Pos1 and the End key i can move the cursor up and down.

Do i have to answer the copy protection at the start, or has this been disabled for comfort reasons?

:(
Post edited August 21, 2015 by xwormwood
Posted August 21, 2015
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xwormwood: In my case i can't navigate Pool of Radiance menus, graphics and letters are incomplete, an the arrow buttons or page up / page down doens't work.
:(
No idea about incomplete graphics and letters, but as for going up and down, have you tried using Home and End, or 7 and 1 on the numpad (or the regular number keys)? The game has a clunky control scheme by design.

I think the copy protection is disabled, just try to input random letters and press return.
Post edited August 21, 2015 by Leroux
Posted August 21, 2015
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xwormwood: Why isn't there a working support page for these games?

I ran into troubles with Pool of Radiance, but it isn't possible eben to contact GOG about this if you use the Links in the support section.

Would be nice to get some help here, GOG.
There are.

Collection One
Collection Two
Collection Three
Posted August 21, 2015
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xwormwood: Why isn't there a working support page for these games?

I ran into troubles with Pool of Radiance, but it isn't possible eben to contact GOG about this if you use the Links in the support section.

Would be nice to get some help here, GOG.
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Grargar: There are.

Collection One
Collection Two
Collection Three
Well, now try to ask a question on this page
http://www.gog.com/support/pool_of_radiance
and tell me how well that worked out for you.

But thanks for the other links, much appreciated.
Posted August 21, 2015
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xwormwood: Well, now try to ask a question on this page
http://www.gog.com/support/pool_of_radiance
and tell me how well that worked out for you.

But thanks for the other links, much appreciated.
They don't make it obvious on what to do if your issue isn't covered on that page, but click on Contact Us in the upper right. This will take you to another page where you can choose the type of issue you need help with (technical help for games, website issues, orders and payments, other, etc.)
Posted August 21, 2015
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xwormwood: Well, now try to ask a question on this page
http://www.gog.com/support/pool_of_radiance
and tell me how well that worked out for you.

But thanks for the other links, much appreciated.
Support links for games in a bundle work weirdly. Your best bet is to go directly to support, enter the bundle's name in the search field (Forgotte Realms Collection Two and not Pool of Radiance), click it, and then click the link on the right that says "I can't find solution for my problem".
Post edited August 21, 2015 by Grargar
Posted August 21, 2015
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gamesfreak64: look at those 'innocent' faces :D

see attachment
Such fine Young Republicans
Post edited August 21, 2015 by PetrusOctavianus
Posted August 21, 2015
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xwormwood: Well, now try to ask a question on this page
http://www.gog.com/support/pool_of_radiance
and tell me how well that worked out for you.

But thanks for the other links, much appreciated.
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Grargar: Support links for games in a bundle work weirdly. Your best bet is to go directly to support, enter the bundle's name in the search field (Forgotte Realms Collection Two and not Pool of Radiance), click it, and then click the link on the right that says "I can't find solution for my problem".
Will do, thanks.
Posted August 21, 2015
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JudasIscariot: Where do you see this?
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xwormwood: Why isn't there a working support page for these games?

I ran into troubles with Pool of Radiance, but it isn't possible eben to contact GOG about this if you use the Links in the support section.

Would be nice to get some help here, GOG.

In my case i can't navigate Pool of Radiance menus, graphics and letters are incomplete, an the arrow buttons or page up / page down doens't work.

At least not if i play in fullscreen mode. In the rather small windowed mode the graphics look alright, and if I use Pos1 and the End key i can move the cursor up and down.

Do i have to answer the copy protection at the start, or has this been disabled for comfort reasons?

:(
Even if it's not, you can relatively easily disable the copy protection yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGmvyZcqqSQ

And a little tip regarding "enhancing" the graphics a bit (I use the following parameters for my Let's Plays - looks ok for the most part)

Relevant parameters in dosbox.conf:

[sdl]
fullscreen=false
fulldouble=false
fullresolution=original
windowresolution=960x600
output=overlay

[render]
frameskip=0
aspect=false
scaler=hq3x
Post edited August 21, 2015 by DoctorPirx
Posted August 21, 2015
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xwormwood: Well, now try to ask a question on this page
http://www.gog.com/support/pool_of_radiance
and tell me how well that worked out for you.

But thanks for the other links, much appreciated.
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GR00T: They don't make it obvious on what to do if your issue isn't covered on that page, but click on Contact Us in the upper right. This will take you to another page where you can choose the type of issue you need help with (technical help for games, website issues, orders and payments, other, etc.)
Doesn't work if you chose a single game from a compilation.
Try my link and see where that will end!
:)
Posted August 21, 2015
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xwormwood: Doesn't work if you chose a single game from a compilation.
Try my link and see where that will end!
:)
I did. It takes you to the page I mentioned where you choose technical issues, etc. Click on Contact Us to the right of 'Policies' (In the grey header bar under the 'Support for Games and Customers' heading). Be sure to scroll down, as the page is exactly the same as the previous one on the top section.

*edit* Ah, I went further. Yeah, I see the issue now. It's running you in circles. Follow Grargar's advice, then. Apologies.
Post edited August 21, 2015 by GR00T
Posted August 21, 2015
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blakstar: The Phantasie games (or at least I and III, since I don't have II) definitely work well under DOSBox.

Got an old Wizardworks box with the two games, plus Questron II, in it, on both 3 1/2" and 5 1/4" floppies, and fortunately they were still readable, so I was able to copy off the files and play the games for a while -- felt somewhat nostalgic playing old CGA games again. :-)

Kept the archive copies just in case the disks actually fail -- I'm surprised they lasted this long actually!
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DCT: yeah sadly Phantase 2 for whatever reason never saw a PC/MS Dos version the only way to play it is on the Commodore 64, Amiga or Atari XT. As for that collection I had that one too. Played the hell out of it, never did complete Questron 2 or Phantase 3 but I did finish Phantase 1.
If you wanna play Phantasie 1-3 I recommend the glorious 16 bit Atari ST versions. The Steem emulator is very easy to use.
Posted August 21, 2015
OMFG so this was the big news!
Well done Gog!
Posted August 21, 2015
Cheers gOg! Nice to see these games here, since many people wanted them. =)
Posted August 21, 2015
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KainXVIII: No Ravenloft - no buy from me.
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Venita: Now, now, there's no need to be hasty. :)
You beautiful motherfucker, give me a goddamn kiss!

No tongue, though. Well, just for a few seconds. Longer than that would be awkward.

Now, you just tell me that the rest of the games - DragonLance, Dark Sun, Buck Rogers, etc. - will get a release & I'll make sure you get a special visit consisting of at least four professional purveyors of exotic pleasures.
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