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System Shock (original) Linux and OSX versions

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System Shock is a DOS game and runs very nicely under DOSBox, so now that the game is here, it doesn't make sense for it to be a Windows-only release.

It's true that the "enhanced edition" does seem to require Windows, and there may be good reasons for that, but there's no obvious reason why the original ("classic edition") DOS game can't be supplied in a cross-platform format, as DOSBox runs just fine on OSX and Linux. The only problem here seems to be the Windows-only installer that GOG is using for the classic edition of the game.

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More likely, it's licensing issues:

1. GOG was probably only able to get the original as a bundled extra under the same terms as the enhanced edition.
2. I'm not sure I've ever heard of a publisher allowing a vendor to license platforms they haven't announced as being in the works, which means no Linux for the enhanced edition.

Nov. 5, 2015
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