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Add ReactOS as third supported platform and free and open source option
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shaddim As it was stated by the GOG staff that linux support is too complicated (fragmented platform) and economical no feasible (too small marketshare) a better option as free and open source OS to address could be ReactOS, a Windows compatible OS. A cooperation between GOG and ReactOS could be a fruitful development incubator and could help ReactOS coming out the alpha state in near future. On the GOG side, this could satisfy the long standing user request for a GOG support option of a free and open source OS.
www.reactos.org/
m.gr.b When considering maintaining ports for games, Windows 10 has become a movng target with its constant update policy, whereas the project goal of ReactOS is to implement a certain fixed API. So supporting this project seems like a viable long time support strategy.
erbello Note that ReactOS is not x64 ready yet. Currently, for Open Source gaming, better solution is the Linux+Wine.
panzeroceania I support this. It would allow GOG to be in a free platform, this is a good future for PC gaming
##@@##@@ I have never heard of ReactOS before. But it can't be worse than Windows 10, which judging from reports, is also still in alpha - especially when it comes to gaming support. If ReactOS comes without built-in spyware it should be the better OS for gaming already... ;)
jeditobe www.gog.com/forum/general/the_upcoming_version_043_of_reactos_will_support_gog_galaxy
The upcoming version 0.4.3 of ReactOS will support GOG Galaxy.
StevyB Ich kann gar nicht genug betonen, wie sehr ich ReactOS-Unterstützung für GOG sehen wollen würde und umgekehrt!
I cant say how much I would love to see ReactOS supported by GOG and vice versa!
jorlin Sorry, but I tend to loose interest in an operating system that has begun development in 1998 and is still only in Alpha. Even though things may seem stable, I will not touch it until it is at least in the Beta stage. Alpha's should be internal only, by their very definition. I'll stick with Wine for now.
coopatroopa Agreed. ReactOS is much more stable than it used to be. In the spirit of DRM-free old games, why wouldn't ReactOS be supported? ;)
jeditobe See this videos www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oCpy0c0e5E
Windows 3.11 running in DosBox while running on ReactOS
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WGXGWB3EAw
running MacOS in ReactOS
gonzoMD community.reactos.org/
www.indiegogo.com/projects/reactos-community-edition
shaddim @jpkx1984: no. As Windows itself is doomed to be backward compatible this is a non-issue. Also, companies would love to have viable MS alternative & would support ReactOS actively. ReactOS could have catched up already easily (and maybe even taken the lead) if enough ressources would have been invested. To pull some number out of the nose, let's say 5% what was invested in the linux ecosystem.
jpkx1984 ReactOS is doomed to be eternal alpha. Always behind and playing catching up. By the time ReactOS reaches full XP we will have had Windows 10. It is too incomplete and unstable to be of any serious use.
jeditobe www.kickstarter.com/projects/thorium/thorium-core-cloud-desktop
ReactOS is on Kickstarter now
Sanjuro Да вы издеваетесь...
(You've got to be kidding...)
No, really, how is this going to help expand significantly?
gonzoMD ReactOS has an upcoming implementation of NTVDM which lets the users play good old DOS games. It is still under heavy development but made great progress in a relative short time.
You can say that there is DosBox but there you have to install a completely new program, have to configure it and have to know at least some dos commands. With ReactOS you have just to doubleclick the exe or com file and that's it. (in the future, of course)
As it is open Source everyone can fix problems which ignored for years due to games compatibility.
I tried an actual development snapshot of ntvdm (sadly it's not included in trunk yet) and got for example Arkanoid, Barbarian and Commander Keen 6 to run.
Even some older Windows Games are already running as Diablo for example.
And Wine...
Wine is a Mess as they try to serve all Windows version in one package, what is not really possible as they are too different.
ReactOS has one Target: NT 5.2 that will be used and extended, but not hacked around as in Wine.
Still the compatibility of Wine is bigger as of ReactOS but you have to configure Wine again and again for every Program or Game.
I vote for ReactOS and hope they get Support
CSRedRat Add please.
ATTACUE ReactOS is next generation
linuxmaster Guys, it is good chance for GOG to make competitive game console for all of us.
plus88 нужно
coldreactive @shaddim not to mention unlike Wine for Linux, ReactOS plans to be Driver compatible as well. Wine never will be driver compatible, at least, that's not their plan.
LinusTorvalds Нужно
DEMONiadSE Rave Schepard requires the support of ReactOS!
andysh Хорошая система, верю в её хорошее будущее!
Marshal88 Реактос Рулит!
SERGKO Надеюсь, у Вас всё получится!
shaddim Looks like ReactOS improved recently especially for (good) old games: www.reactos.org/node/728 "Moar games! Moar compatibility!"
shaddim @fabian.troester:
About market-share considerations: would be no issue with ReactOS (in contrast to linux) as it aims for compatibility with Windows. No extra thought end effort needed.
And about point "why windows-like overall?" : windows is a great open platform & OS for the PC, in contrast to the unix-like linux which is server & developer focussed by architecture. My issue with windows is only: it's closed source and under control of a single entity. If Windows would be open source (or a open source alternative available like ReactOS would be available) and developed by a open consortium or community, I would prefer the platform approach of Windows before the unix & distro mess with Linux anytime.
So, ReactOS could be a solution for the FOSS crowd.
JimPhelps What good would that do? Okay, so I voted for it anyway, since I understand the sentiments, but I think it's a bit pointless. Reason: ReactOS aspires to be near 100% binary compatible to Windows (not sure quite which version of Windows, though). If they will achieve that goal (difficult and unlikely) then all the gog games supported on Windows will potentially run on ReactOS.
Since gog's reason -- as you say -- was in part the small market share of Linux ... guess what they'd say about the market share of ReactOS ... ;)
If the aim of this request is for support in terms of help, then that's different and makes sense.
I'd still prefer support for Linux, especially since a lot of the really old games use emulators which are running natively unter Linux anyway (Dosbox or ScummVM). And many of the newer games come with native support for Linux anyway, so that would be effortless for gog. I don't really understand gog's stance not to support Linux.
ReactOS is a great project ... but I still think: the whole point of not using Windows is: not to use Windows -- so ReactOS is not the solution.
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