While I am working on a more user friendly version, I hacked together this script which can be v0.0.0 of the XGOG Downloader.

You can download it from here.

Current features include:
* Cross platform
* Auto-resume
* Queued downloads

Installation and usage is.. involved, at least to begin with.

You will require Perl (Windows users should be able to use ActivePerl) and possibly several Perl modules. As far as I am aware, the only non-standard module used is Time::Progress but there may be others (please report if there are, I will add them to the README, which yes, you should read :]).

Hope this helps some people :)

EDIT: By the way, it is licensed under the same terms as Perl itself.

Nice, but I feel like starting a thread called "Can XGOG be trusted?". ;)

I see. Just put add an "X" somewhere in the name and it automatically makes it look better. They did it with boxes (double the x!!), and they're doing it with GOG. Outrageous! I even strained so hard I dropped my monocle.

You dropped your monocle because I shortened "Xyem's GOG" to "XGOG"? Perhaps it needs gluing in...

And of course it can be trusted. Open xgog-downloader.pl in your text editor of choice and check it is behaving if you want :)

Never mind, it's broken now. At least I know who to blame for this travesty. They just don't make good monocles like they used to, you know (if at all).

Try to temporarily disconnect your Internet connection. That puts basically every download manager into tears with GOG files.

Ah, I can't see the smiley. I have images turned off to save bandwidth (mobile broadband) and GOG doesn't have alt-text on images.. (pin the click on the quote button is quite fun!)

It probably can handle normal HTTP downloads but it behaves in a way they is specific to GOG to support the resumable downloads. As far as I am aware, most other downloaders follow the redirect and then regard that as the source, stopping it from resuming without you manually changing the source back.

As I said, this is just a quick release to help those who have issues with other downloaders. Later versions of this will be specific to GOG (allowing you to select things from your library directly from an interface for example).

What exactly do you do for a living? You own most of the GOG catalogue, do weekly giveaways and have plenty of free time to work on web hosting and projects like this!

I think I made a bad career choice somewhere along the line.

Like akwater, he's Batman.

My "job" is very close to "data entry" but that isn't what I actually do while at work. Most of the time I am demonstrating how inadequate our IT department is..

.. which might be why they won't hire me :(

And Batman might be quite accurate.. I have to break the company policy to do a lot of what I actually do but I make my workplace a better place (more efficient etc.) doing so. Everyone, even the CEO of the company, knows I do this, so I must be making a significant enough positive contribution to have a blind eye turned towards it :)

Which is pretty much what I do too! :)

It is a hilarious pastime. My favorite anecdote is when they sent a tech over to defrag my hard drive because my keyboard stopped working. It quickly mutated into "call IT and have them defrag your keyboard" every time someone in the office started complaining about computer problems.

Yeah, our IT Support is outsourced to a well-known IT company, and the people in their call centre clearly don't have a clue about anything remotely IT related. Luckily, I managed to "obtain" the administrator password for the entire organisation, so if people have any problems with their PCs they tend to come to me rather than having to wait a week to fix the simplest of things (correcting the proxy settings in IE comes to mind).

Hahahaha... me too :) our IT always tells me to reboot the computer... even when I exactly told them what is wrong with my computer. Even when I said, that my browser is crashing everytime I open up a specific site (need this side for my work), they only tell me: Reboot and look if it is working now.... hahaha, after about 6 months with the same problem, do they really think I never shut down my work computer? ;)