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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 21, 2019
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Geralt_of_Rivia: Yes. That's not a bug, it's a feature. :-)

The offline installers are supposed to always install exactly the same as Galaxy so you can choose to use (or not use) Galaxy at any time without any change to the games. So when the game changes, even if it only gets new Galaxy only features like cloud saves or achievements, there will be new offline installers.

If you do not care about that feature and you already have the previous installers downloaded and backed up you do not need to download the new installers.
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trusteft: Ah....you confused me.

I am worried about downloading these new installers (and I hate that I don't have the option to download previous versions but anyway) since I heard people having issues with them. I don't care about the client and only want offline installers. As far as I know the client is no longer attached with the offline installers, so...yeah, no idea.
The client itself doesn't come with the non-Galaxy stand alone versions of the games, but there are some files that Galaxy make use of that also comes with the non-Galaxy versions. This is supposedly so that it becomes easy to import the games into Galaxy should you ever want to, and also–I'd wager‒because keeping multiple versions of the games up to date and running without a hitch is a pain in the ass. So yes, non-Galaxy versions of games also contains some Galaxy related files, and when these get updated, both Galaxy bundled installers and non-Galaxy installers becomes updated.
Posted March 21, 2019
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vv221: Usually they do, if you extract the installers contents of any DOSBox Linux game you can find DOSBox source in "data/noarch/docs".
I didn't check Windows installers lately, so I don't know if it can be found in there too.
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squid_80: Yeah, I just checked for myself - source code is there like normal (dosbox-0.74-2.1.tar.gz) and the relevant new stuff is in src/dos/drive_overlay.cpp.
That is correct. Have fun checking it out. (There are more comments in the code compared to normal)

Btw, for all people who have suddenly send me friend invites. Please allow me to politely decline. I hope you understand.
Post edited March 21, 2019 by Qbix
Posted March 21, 2019
The new updates have problems with at least Bitdefender Antivirus. No updated game will start anymore unless you disable Bitdefender and verify the game again.

Edit: SDL.dll and SDL_net.dll in the Dosbox subfolder will be deleted while downloading. Copying them from another game will make the others run again.
Post edited March 21, 2019 by hohiro
Posted March 21, 2019
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hohiro: The new updates have problems with at least Bitdefender Antivirus. No updated game will start anymore unless you disable Bitdefender and verify the game again.

Edit: SDL.dll and SDL_net.dll in the Dosbox subfolder will be deleted while downloading. Copying them from another game will make the others run again.
Verify works as well...

(Click on More, Manage Installation, Verify/Repair... )
Post edited March 21, 2019 by Qbix
Posted March 21, 2019
Are these updated games still compatible with the vanilla dosbox version?
Posted March 21, 2019
thanks !!!!
just thanks for proofing once in a while that gog is stil an awesome place for (drm-declining) gamers !
Posted March 21, 2019
This stupid update has rendered all my DOS games UNPLAYABLE! None of my DOS game will open now!

How do I undo this update?
Posted March 21, 2019
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eiii: Are these updated games still compatible with the vanilla dosbox version?
Yes. The game files aren't modified, just the new dosbox build is configured to put any new/modified files in the cloud_saves directory.
Posted March 21, 2019
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KevinAmedy: This stupid update has rendered all my DOS games UNPLAYABLE! None of my DOS game will open now!

How do I undo this update?
Exit Galaxy, go to the game's folder and run the exe.
Posted March 21, 2019
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KevinAmedy: This stupid update has rendered all my DOS games UNPLAYABLE! None of my DOS game will open now!

How do I undo this update?
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teceem: Exit Galaxy, go to the game's folder and run the exe.
I just tried that on a few games, and I get two error messages.

SDL_net.dll not found

SDL.dll not found

What do they mean?
Posted March 21, 2019
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teceem: Exit Galaxy, go to the game's folder and run the exe.
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KevinAmedy: I just tried that on a few games, and I get two error messages.

SDL_net.dll not found

SDL.dll not found

What do they mean?
On Windows x64?
Try installing this:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13523
Maybe the new Dosbox needs Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable? Would've been nice if GOG mentioned this.
Post edited March 21, 2019 by teceem
Posted March 21, 2019
verify files on galaxy with your antivirus turned off. Or put manually the new SDL files into dosbox folder if you have them.

Some antivirus are deleting those files during installation.

EDIT: For now it is known that bitdefender is one of those antivirus, another is avast in my case.
Post edited March 21, 2019 by Gudadantza
Posted March 21, 2019
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KevinAmedy: I just tried that on a few games, and I get two error messages.

SDL_net.dll not found

SDL.dll not found

What do they mean?
For some reason BitDefender has started detecting these files as malicious and removes them, even though they're exactly the same as the ones included in earlier installs.
Disable BitDefender and verify your games with the galaxy client (look a few posts up for instructions).
Posted March 21, 2019
Amazing!
Well done!
Posted March 21, 2019
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KevinAmedy: I just tried that on a few games, and I get two error messages.

SDL_net.dll not found

SDL.dll not found

What do they mean?
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squid_80: For some reason BitDefender has started detecting these files as malicious and removes them, even though they're exactly the same as the ones included in earlier installs.
Disable BitDefender and verify your games with the galaxy client (look a few posts up for instructions).
I'm pretty sure that Bitdefender just moved them in its "quarantine" area. Just release and whitelist them. No need to disable it.
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