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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 27, 2019
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Kelefane: No Ultima 7?
Hopefully in the future.
Posted March 27, 2019
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AndresSM: I tested a few games and it works really nicely.
I hoped it would work for installers and stuff like that, but I guess that's on the pipeline. Anything that creates a dir fails currently.

Anyway this is pretty cool, I hope at some point we can load games for a ZIP (In dosbox, not really for GoG re-releases), that way I could launch my zipped copies and changes would be saved to the overlay, seems like a win-win!
Thanks for trying it out. Quite some effort was done to ensure it works on Linux like systems.

Zip support, sorry, we have no plans for that currently. If you want want save space, maybe use file system compression ?

It's indeed aimed at games that are already installed at the moment. As you noticed that creating dir fails (intentionally, to ensure a good internal state), but hopefully that limitation can be lifted at one point once the feature gets more mature.
Post edited March 27, 2019 by Qbix
Posted March 27, 2019
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MightyPinecone: Wow, you included some games that have been de-listed: awesome!
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faroot: (Presuming that's sarcasm:)
No no no, that wasn't bad of Gog, it's a *good* thing, for two reasons:
(1) some of us bought the games before they were delisted (I did), so adding the feature is still a good thing, and
(2) presumably *some* day the publisher will start selling Duke Nukem 20th Anniversary here on Gog, and then either allow the classics to be relisted, or include Duke Nukem classic versions for free, and meanwhile the save game work is done and ready.
That wasn't sarcasm; but now that you say it, I can see how one could think so.

I have expected de-listed games (and games that have been made a part of the 'goodies' section rather than the main library) to be more or less abandoned, so I was genuinely glad to find that they had included them.
Post edited March 27, 2019 by MightyPinecone
Posted March 27, 2019
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Kelefane: No Ultima 7?
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Qbix: Hopefully in the future.
Thank you.
Posted March 28, 2019
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AndresSM: I tested a few games and it works really nicely.
I hoped it would work for installers and stuff like that, but I guess that's on the pipeline. Anything that creates a dir fails currently.

Anyway this is pretty cool, I hope at some point we can load games for a ZIP (In dosbox, not really for GoG re-releases), that way I could launch my zipped copies and changes would be saved to the overlay, seems like a win-win!
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Qbix: Thanks for trying it out. Quite some effort was done to ensure it works on Linux like systems.

Zip support, sorry, we have no plans for that currently. If you want want save space, maybe use file system compression ?

It's indeed aimed at games that are already installed at the moment. As you noticed that creating dir fails (intentionally, to ensure a good internal state), but hopefully that limitation can be lifted at one point once the feature gets more mature.
Qbix, 100% of these games are no longer playable for me, even after Verify/Repair, even after uninstall/reinstall.

There's no SDL error, the Galaxy play button is just ghosted and there's a disk access error message when it tries to update or repair or install.

I have dozens of these now-has-cloud-save DOS games installed, and they are ALL failing to update, and repair doesn't help, and uninstall/reinstall doesn't help.

So now none of them are playable. :(

I had no problems installing and running them in the past using Galaxy; this isn't a problem on my end, there's something wrong with the update itself -- possibly because my installation is on F:

Windows 7, installation on F:

This is really severe.
Posted March 28, 2019
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Qbix: Thanks for trying it out. Quite some effort was done to ensure it works on Linux like systems.

Zip support, sorry, we have no plans for that currently. If you want want save space, maybe use file system compression ?

It's indeed aimed at games that are already installed at the moment. As you noticed that creating dir fails (intentionally, to ensure a good internal state), but hopefully that limitation can be lifted at one point once the feature gets more mature.
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faroot: Qbix, 100% of these games are no longer playable for me, even after Verify/Repair, even after uninstall/reinstall.

There's no SDL error, the Galaxy play button is just ghosted and there's a disk access error message when it tries to update or repair or install.

I have dozens of these now-has-cloud-save DOS games installed, and they are ALL failing to update, and repair doesn't help, and uninstall/reinstall doesn't help.

So now none of them are playable. :(

I had no problems installing and running them in the past using Galaxy; this isn't a problem on my end, there's something wrong with the update itself -- possibly because my installation is on F:

Windows 7, installation on F:

This is really severe.
You are looking at the wrong person probably.
You should contact GOG and/or Galaxy support, as this sounds like a problem that your PC has with Galaxy.
Posted March 28, 2019
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faroot: Qbix, 100% of these games are no longer playable for me, even after Verify/Repair, even after uninstall/reinstall.

There's no SDL error, the Galaxy play button is just ghosted and there's a disk access error message when it tries to update or repair or install.

I have dozens of these now-has-cloud-save DOS games installed, and they are ALL failing to update, and repair doesn't help, and uninstall/reinstall doesn't help.

So now none of them are playable. :(

I had no problems installing and running them in the past using Galaxy; this isn't a problem on my end, there's something wrong with the update itself -- possibly because my installation is on F:

Windows 7, installation on F:

This is really severe.
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Qbix: You are looking at the wrong person probably.
You should contact GOG and/or Galaxy support, as this sounds like a problem that your PC has with Galaxy.
Right, sorry, it's just that (A) as a programmer the symptoms make me think that the code is at fault (like having "C:" encoded in the source, perhaps), not my system, and (B) last time I filed a bug report it took 6 months to get 1/3 of the issue resolved (and a year since then nothing further has been fixed).

It was a long shot, I know you're the wrong person to talk to. I'm just feeling fatalistic that my 127 DOSBox games will ever work again.
Post edited March 28, 2019 by faroot
Posted March 28, 2019
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Qbix: You are looking at the wrong person probably.
You should contact GOG and/or Galaxy support, as this sounds like a problem that your PC has with Galaxy.
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faroot: Right, sorry, it's just that (A) as a programmer the symptoms make me think that the code is at fault (like having "C:" encoded in the source, perhaps), not my system, and (B) last timI filed a bug report it took 6 months to get 1/3 of the issue resolved (and a year since then nothing further has been fixed).

It was a long shot, I know you're the wrong person to talk to. I'm just feeling fatalistic that my 127 DOSBox games will ever work again.
Well, having a C hardcoded in my code is unlikely as it works pretty good on linux as well.

Maybe try an offline game installer and see if the new DOSBox works at your PC. If that works, then the problem is really something you should take up with the Galaxy team.

If it doesn't work, please post again and we can try to figure out why the new DOSBox doesn't work.
Posted March 29, 2019
I have an issue and I'd love if some good folks or the dosbox techs could provide help.

My netbook has a small screen, so I prefer to play with the stretched full-screen, and not the "regulated" screen with the black bars on the side.

I know that if we change the dosbox config, it can do the trick. Like :

Full resolution = desktop
to
Full resolution = original

But is there a way to enable this option just by using the dosbox graphic display tool, instead of editing the config file?

I've tried to change the graphic tool, and use almost every option available, but I always seem to get the same resolution with the vertical black bars on the side.

Thanks in advance for any help.
Posted March 29, 2019
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elcook: As for the current list of DOS games supporting cloud saves, they are:
... Al-Quadim: The Genie's Curse...
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faroot: *snip*
A couple notes:
- Death Gate was only available for a couple months in early 2018. It got pulled on March 20, 2018.
- Softporn Adventure was bundled with Leisure Suit Larry, but is not listed on the game's page. May have been removed (not really the kinda guy to buy LSL, so I'm not checking).

Just in case further clarification is needed.
Post edited March 29, 2019 by Crisco1492
Posted March 29, 2019
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faroot: *snip*
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Crisco1492: A couple notes:
- Death Gate was only available for a couple months in early 2018. It got pulled on March 20, 2018.
- Softporn Adventure was bundled with Leisure Suit Larry, but is not listed on the game's page. May have been removed (not really the kinda guy to buy LSL, so I'm not checking).

Just in case further clarification is needed.
Thanks, that's appreciated. I added your info to my notes -- there's no sign that gog themselves made use of or cared that I dug all that up about the DOSBox games. :(

But at least it's there for readers of this thread.
Posted July 07, 2019
Hello.
For master of orion 1 , cloud saves don't work because the line mount c".._cloud_saves t overlay ect... has been forgotten.

You must update the game please.

Thanks you.
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