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GOG.com is extremely happy to tell you that while the <span class="bold">very successful "Battle of the Games"</span> has ended, our plans for an exciting summer have only just begun. Following the 66% off Alan Wake series promo, which will be over in two hours, we have prepared something indie fans will love. [url=http://www.gog.com/promo/release_promo_indie_drop]<span class="bold">Today, we&rsquo;re dropping four releases and dropping their prices a neat 50%.</span>

For the next 7 days, four great indie titles: Gemini Rue, DEFCON, Multiwinia, and Uplink are available 50% off. Gemini Rue is a tense, surprising, and challenging sci-fi point-and-click from the publishers of Resonance and the Blackwell Bundle. is a Global Thermonuclear War Simulation in which you prepare your military forces, and nuclear silos, make or break alliances with other superpowers, and finally, fire zee missiles! [url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/multiwinia]Multiwinia is the multiplayer-focused (but not multiplayer-only) sequel to Darwinia, a fantastic RTS with simple game mechanics, but great strategic depth. Uplink is a hacker simulator--not your typical game, but strangely entertaining and believable.

Visit the Summer Indie Drop promo page to get DEFCON, Uplink, Gemini Rue, and Multiwinia for 50% off until Thursday, July 19 at 04:59 AM EDT.
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grviper: You should start picking titles based on how easy they are to dosbox. Stuff like Dementia will never run on anything, but a virtual machine.
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MDyzzle: It's not like we have 1000s of them :) and be like "It doesn't work? OK, gimme another!".
DOS games are one thing and Windows games another--often we have games that had two or three different builds and each of them is dead.
Well I appreciate that you guys don't give up easily, willing to go until all options have been exhausted (for the time being) or the game works.
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MDyzzle: DOS games are one thing and Windows games another--often we have games that had two or three different builds and each of them is dead.
Oh, who needs Windows games, when Legacy: Realms of Terror, games by Mindcraft and Event Horizon Software are still not available?! :D
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tfishell: Well I appreciate that you guys don't give up easily, willing to go until all options have been exhausted (for the time being) or the game works.
GOG testers at work: http://j.mp/OAa9ek
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Foxhack: snip
Torrents sucks just like software pirates .
I think this is the right time to once again bring up the idea for the GOG team to make a short documentary, detailing the process of GOGification - starting from legal battles over licenses, through patchin', fixin' and testin', to the realease. I would definitely watch it :-) And it would be a cool promo material for GOG.
@MDyzzle : I'm not sure if you can really answer this, but I was wondering if GOG is committed to supporting newer games in the same way as the older games. In other words, if Windows 9 or 10 doesn't run Gemini Rue, is GOG committing to keeping Gemini Rue working (just like the older games that are worked on now to work on Win 7)?
Post edited July 12, 2012 by FKSSR
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Foxhack: snip
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ne_zavarj: Torrents sucks just like software pirates .
Actually, this wouldn't be technically illegal, since I already paid for a license for the game through Steam. I'm just grabbing a majority of the files from another place - and telling Steam to download the rest.

This is no different from using your retail discs - you do the same thing, install the game, copy the install files to Steam, uninstall the game, let Steam fix the files.
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ne_zavarj: Torrents sucks just like software pirates .
Cars suck just like hit and runners.
Please do not confuse a technology (cars/torrents) with its abusers (hit and runners/software pirates). Torrents do have quite a few legitimate uses, even if people think that torrents equal piracy.
Hell, Humble Bundle uses torrents as well, are they pirates?
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tfishell: Well I appreciate that you guys don't give up easily, willing to go until all options have been exhausted (for the time being) or the game works.
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MDyzzle: GOG testers at work: http://j.mp/OAa9ek
They're so cute!
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ne_zavarj: Torrents sucks just like software pirates .
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Foxhack: Actually, this wouldn't be technically illegal, since I already paid for a license for the game through Steam. I'm just grabbing a majority of the files from another place - and telling Steam to download the rest.

This is no different from using your retail discs - you do the same thing, install the game, copy the install files to Steam, uninstall the game, let Steam fix the files.
While you are correct, you are also incorrect.

Several anti-piracy legislations don't give a rats ass if you have a license for the software. They just make "acquiring from an obvious illegal source" illegal. And, with torrents, you are also sharing, which is also an issue.

While you have every moral right in the world, you could still get fscked by the internet police. And not in the nice way...
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SimonG: legal thingies
Quick question, but can you press charges against only one of the lawbreakers, or must you charge all of them? So for example, if there is a torrent with 100 people in it, can you only sue one of those 100, or must you sue all 100 of them, either individually or en masse?
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SimonG: While you are correct, you are also incorrect.

Several anti-piracy legislations don't give a rats ass if you have a license for the software. They just make "acquiring from an obvious illegal source" illegal. And, with torrents, you are also sharing, which is also an issue.

While you have every moral right in the world, you could still get fscked by the internet police. And not in the nice way...
I'm in Mexico. There's no such thing as the internet police here... and if there is, they're all bought out by the pirates anyway. XD
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SimonG: legal thingies
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JMich: Quick question, but can you press charges against only one of the lawbreakers, or must you charge all of them? So for example, if there is a torrent with 100 people in it, can you only sue one of those 100, or must you sue all 100 of them, either individually or en masse?
You can sue one and ignore the others. There is no "equality in illegality". Depends on national laws, of course. But basically, "why me but not him?" won't hold in most courts.
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SimonG: You can sue one and ignore the others. There is no "equality in illegality". Depends on national laws, of course. But basically, "why me but not him?" won't hold in most courts.
And I guess having people in that group being in other countries complicates it even more. I think there was a case that basically replied on the summons with "You are claiming I was part of a 6 thousand people group, but you are only suing me, either sue us all or none of us" but it's most probably an urban legend.
Thank you for the legal advise, hope you won't charge me for it :P
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JMich: Thank you for the legal advise, hope you won't charge me for it :P
If I would I charge you for it, I would be liable up to my ass. One of those anti Jew laws of the thirties that never really got repealed. It was used to ban legal counsel by Jew that got thrown out of the lawyer association. Guess the lawyer liked it that only certified lawyers are allowed to give legal advice, so the law stayed in effect...