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Posted February 03, 2020
Good news! As of this day two classic games made by Mike Singleton - The Lords of Midnight and Doomdark’s Revenge - are available on GOG.COM completely free.

Enjoy those breakthrough titles that paved the road for fantasy series like King’s Bounty or Heroes of Might and Magic.
Posted February 03, 2020
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Mike Singleton was a legendary programmer and by all accounts one of the nicest people you could ever hope to meet.
Would love to see more of his games released here such as War In Middle Earth, Midwinter (and its sequel) and Starlord.
Posted February 03, 2020
I wonder if they’re identical enough that my maps from the C64 are still correct.
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Doc0075: Mike Singleton was a legendary programmer and by all accounts one of the nicest people you could ever hope to meet.
Would love to see more of his games released here such as War In Middle Earth, Midwinter (and its sequel) and Starlord.
Don't forget Lords of Midnight: the Citadel, whose the remake, I believe, is still in works (but maybe not for long because of these freebies).
Posted February 03, 2020
Awesome!
Posted February 03, 2020
I didn´t know about these games but i ´ve played King´s Bountty and HoMM so thank you for the freebies.
Posted February 03, 2020
Already own them here but nice for those that dont own them.
also need to finnish the first game and start on the second some day
Posted February 03, 2020
Awesome! Always glad to see more free games. Thank you!
Posted February 03, 2020
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What a great surprise! I had forgotten its existance on GOG store but remembered the vanilla zx spectrum version with love.

They were ahead of its time back in the eighties like every Mike Singleton Game. That guy was a visionary of some kind.

War in Middle Earth, Throne of Fire, Lords of Midnight...

Now It is a great oportunity to try a couple of classics remastered and modernized.
Post edited February 03, 2020 by Gudadantza
Posted February 03, 2020
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Doc0075: Mike Singleton was a legendary programmer and by all accounts one of the nicest people you could ever hope to meet.
Would love to see more of his games released here such as War In Middle Earth, Midwinter (and its sequel) and Starlord.
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Huinehtar: Don't forget Lords of Midnight: the Citadel, whose the remake, I believe, is still in works (but maybe not for long because of these freebies).
I didn't know that a LoM3 remake was being done. If so, that's excellent news!
Can you provide a link of the subject?
Posted February 03, 2020
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Vythonaut: Many thanks to everyone involved to make this offer possible!
^ This. Never played any of them before. so thanks a ton.
Posted February 03, 2020
Never did get very far on the 464 with Lords of Midnight...

...wonder if theres a means to emulate green screen? ;D
Posted February 03, 2020
Thanks, GOG, for bringing them back to life and "free to own"!
Posted February 03, 2020
Well, I already bought them a while back but a nice gesture :)
Posted February 03, 2020
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Huinehtar: Don't forget Lords of Midnight: the Citadel, whose the remake, I believe, is still in works (but maybe not for long because of these freebies).
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karnak1: I didn't know that a LoM3 remake was being done. If so, that's excellent news!
Can you provide a link of the subject?
It is, for quite some time, because the engine devs stopped support, so it was rebuilt in a new engine.
You can have some information on the LoM blog.

And there's a bonus: the Lords of Midnight novel has been released! (still haven't yet, I don't know how it compares to the novellas included in the Citadel's box)
The freebies are actually a good reminder for me to get this novel :p
Post edited February 03, 2020 by Huinehtar
Posted February 03, 2020
(reposting from twitter) Very cool. still wish we could get more freeware releases like Starcraft + Brood Wars (maybe not technically freeware), OMF2097, Halloween Harry, SimCity, etc. :)
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