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Posted September 27, 2013
Birthday Bullfrog Bonus Bonanza!

GOG.com 5th birthday celebration continues and we have some more gifts for you! This time, it's a nice pack of add-ons to the classic Bullfrog Productions titles in our EA catalog. There's plenty of previously not included content being added as you read this to five prominent Bullfrog games. If you bought them them previously, the updated versions will become available to you shortly. If you don't yet have those memorable classics in your collection, now you have some extra incentive to get them. Let's see what games get the Level-up treatment today, shall we?

Syndicate receives the American Revolt mission pack taking the future corporate executive work to a whole new level of awesome, thus becoming Syndicate Plus. Similarly, the fantasy underworld management game, Dungeon Keeper, becomes Dungeon Keeper Gold, with extra added evil in the form of the Deeper Dungeons expansion. Hidden Worlds have been discovered in the Arabian desert, making Magic Carpet into Magic Carpet Plus. now invites you to the <i>Promised Lands</i> filled with new challenges, and [url=http://www.gog.com/game/populous_the_beginning]Populous: The Beginning has yet some Undiscovered Worlds in store for you.

That's it! Five excellent, content-filled expansions await you in our classic Bullfrog titles. Again, if you bought any of these titles previously, you should now have access to the newly extended version without any additional fee. Have fun!
Posted September 27, 2013
Now all we need is Hi-Octane, Genewars, Powermonger and the Theme Park titles
Posted September 27, 2013
Good to see all the extras for those games. Well done GOG, now about Alpha Centauri...
Posted September 27, 2013
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Hillsy_: Good to see all the extras for those games. Well done GOG, now about Alpha Centauri...
Alpha centauri has its expansion for like a year now :D
Posted September 27, 2013
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Hillsy_: Good to see all the extras for those games. Well done GOG, now about Alpha Centauri...
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keeveek: Alpha centauri has its expansion for like a year now :D
Oooh crikey, I didn't know. Back in a jiffy :) Thanks for the heads up. Off to buy Alpha Centauri :)
Posted September 27, 2013
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serpantino: Edit: Also does this mean that Dungeon Keeper is no longer the inferior DOS version?
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timppu: I just checked it, and the GOG version appears to be the DOS version only, for both Dungeon Keeper, and the Deeper Dungeons add-on. So in that sense it is a bit misleading to call this "Dungeon Keeper Gold", as the Windows version is not included. But all the same levels etc. are (meaning, the expansion pack). I don't quite recall if there was anything else extra in the Windows version. A level editor maybe?

But before people cry foul too much:

- I think the Windows version is a real bitch to get to work on modern Windows/PCs. I think I got the Windows version to work only on Windows XP, no success on Windows 7 64bit.

- I actually prefer the DOS version. The Windows versions seems a bit "jumpy" when it moves between screens (like menu screen, loading screen, intro screen) which looks irritating.

Windows version has Direct3D support which makes things look "smoother" (ie. very fuzzy) instead of pixellated in the first-person view, but in the main mode (ie. the overhead view) it doesn't really look that much better. In fact in the first-person view the 3D accelerated mode lacks certain "lens distortion effect" that the software renderer mode has. So the Direct3D mode is a bit of a trade-off.

Since the retail Windows Gold version also includes the plain DOS version (which basically is what GOG has), that is the version I have been playing with the retail version, through DOSBox.

Naturally GOG could have offered the Windows version too on top of it... but I wouldn't be surprised they just couldn't get it work at all on Windows 7 and 8. So maybe they felt it isn't worth it to make a working installer for the Windows version etc. I am personally happy with the DOS version.
Thanks for that explanation :). Will probably grab 1 & 2 when I have the money now.
Posted September 27, 2013
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Hillsy_: Oooh crikey, I didn't know. Back in a jiffy :) Thanks for the heads up. Off to buy Alpha Centauri :)
If you're wondering, Wing Commander games got their expansions as well ;-)

If I'm not mistaken, now every EA game has it's expansion added, free of charge.
Posted September 27, 2013
Took you guys long enough but you finally did it, congratulations for finally adding the much awaited expansions to beloved EA titles

We can now consider them officially the best possible versions of the games you can find on the net, well done GOG!
Posted September 27, 2013
I'd love to Theme Park added to GoG :)
Posted September 27, 2013
Thanks EA and GOG
Posted September 27, 2013
WOW! Thank you GOG!
Posted September 27, 2013
Damn you GOG I should be working not playing.

Been playing deeper dungeons and I must say I am smarter then I was then when I was 10
Posted September 27, 2013
Thanks!
Posted September 27, 2013
Great ! Thanks a lot !
Posted September 27, 2013
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serpantino: Edit: Also does this mean that Dungeon Keeper is no longer the inferior DOS version?
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timppu: I just checked it, and the GOG version appears to be the DOS version only, for both Dungeon Keeper, and the Deeper Dungeons add-on. So in that sense it is a bit misleading to call this "Dungeon Keeper Gold", as the Windows version is not included. But all the same levels etc. are (meaning, the expansion pack). I don't quite recall if there was anything else extra in the Windows version. A level editor maybe?
Yes, there's a level editor in my old boxed copy of 'Dungeon Keeper Gold Classic'.
Posted September 27, 2013
Hot dang, I have all these titles, so maximum upgrade! Thanks tons, GOG!
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