I have no idea, I don't own the game, but the place to find out are the game speciic forums. Questions posted in general discussion tend to get lost in the mist of flamings and fury. Put a post in the Wing Commander forum and I am confident it will be answered,

Basically: Why?

Give me one good reason why would they do that. It works flawlessly, they have the permission of DosBox creator who even reads the forums from time to time and he gets free games, people who don't understand DOS get to play old games without any hassle, AND the DOS games are compatible with other operating systems than windowns that way.

It's a win-win. Why change something that works?

I'd call that a dos-win :)

I've explained my personal reasons upstairs, and I'm not against dosbox usage for gog games, as long as everyone happy... so... um... I don't think it matter anymore.

okay... and thanks very much for the warm-welcome replies of yours :)

Road rash infact would be great. But i'll see what those two are all about. =)

Oh then i misunderstood your intention badly. I share the same disappointment with your point regarding the dosbox emulated game. For example Pro Pinball Timeshock here is dosbox version which didn't support high resolution and other minor settings.
But in some other case (maybe rare), i read on Earth series forum here, Earth 2140 on DOS work flawlessly compared to Windows version which is offered here. The AI on windows version is completely broken, but i think maybe the developer of the game screwed some other thing. For me it is weird, how the windows version could be so bad compared to the dos version and it looks like still broken to this day.

Well... Yeah, I suppose. Of course you can bundle your games on CDs with DosBox if you have the spare time and will to do so, GoG is here mainly for people that can't work with computers so well and for those who never had those games in the first place (like me, you know, I'm gamer since like 2000 or so :-) ) DosBox bundling is simply the most cost effective solution, GoG even coded a frontend for changing it's settings (I'm just unsure if they're still using it).

Porting those games for Windows would basically mean re-writing huge chunks of the engine, if not actually rewriting it entirely. That's just not the ammount of work any company would put into 6 or 9 bucks title, you'll surely understand that if you ever tried to revise code written by someone else.

And as for some buggy releases, well, GoG releases what they get. It's not in their place to fix bugs, they're just a distributor - and interstate 76 was probably the worst thing to happen to GoG since launch, really. They sort of kind of screwed up there (I mean, if you get a piece of software that just doesn't run properly and try to get it running on system it wasn't meant to run on, it just inevitably leads to disaster)

I've heard that most of the time GOG only gets binaries, no source code. And even then you wouldn't necessarily be able to compile them again, not to speak of making fixes in the code which can take forever if you fight yourself through badly written code, which can happen.

The only thing that should be mandatory to GOG is that they describe the state of their games honestly with all the glitches still inside. So, if e.g. the soundtrack is different, some features of the original game are not accessible or some original fixes could not be applied or incompatibilities with modern systems occur, then that should be indicated clearly, so we can make an informed buying decision.

I fully trust them that they do everything they can to make it as smooth and perfect as possible and I never had real problems so far. So I am a happy user.

Yep, or at the very least write if it's a dosbox release for various reasons.

Can someone please explain how my response was "touchy" because I don't see how it was..

As far as I can tell, all I did was:
1) Clarified what my initial question was for
2) Explained that I wasn't going to jump at them for having pirated the games
3) Confirmed my belief that they aim to buy the games legitimately
4) Encouraged them not to jump to conclusions
5) Mentioned that I think they applied a jaded view (for presuming I would have a go for pirating)
6) Explained how I didn't need to forgive them for sinning (which I presume meant pirating the games)
7) Mentioned that the only thing I could forgive them for so far is being a jerk to me for no reason (which was being continued with the quoted comment). You mean, right after you accuse me of being touchy for responding (not excessively or rudely) to your judgemental - and incorrect - comments? You are the one that detracted from the topic by presuming my question was more than just a question.

If you had just answered me, I'd be trying to help you by now.