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Posted October 05, 2010
Hello all, my first post here cause I'm thinking about getting a few games and I have a question on how these games work on Win7 etc.
I'm familiar with emulation, ScummVM, DOSBOX and lots of other stuff out there and I'm able to get a handfull of old games to work on my own in Win7 64bit. (Diablo, Darkstone etc)

My question is how do the games install that I buy from GOG? Is DOSBOX integrated?
From what I read here in the forums it seems the gog team has their own installer for games? That use DOSBOX or ScummVM etc? Am I right? Sounds pretty great if the GOG team can really get these games to work for the most part.
Posted October 05, 2010
GoG has a custom innosetup based installer with configuration options for path, desktop icon, foxit reader installation, and dosbox installation.

By default the installer will put a local copy of dosbox with the game's configuration file in the game's directory. Shortcuts in the start menu or desktop will launch dosbox with said configuration specified as an argument.

However, you can point the installer to your own copy of dosbox, and the installer will provide a configuration file for that, and all shortcuts will launch the game with that copy of dosbox instead.

GoG's dosbox configurations will always WORK, but they try to keep things very close to the original experience--fullscreen with no filters and low-quality FM synthesis music.

It is often desirable (and very easy) to edit GoG's configuration to make use of high-quality scaling filters, switch to windowed mode, and to change the game's music configuration to General Midi (GM) to make use of your soundcards' (or Windows') midi wavetable.
Post edited October 05, 2010 by xenobrain
Posted October 05, 2010
basically next next finish and doubleclick on desktop shortcut.
Posted October 05, 2010
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xenobrain: GoG has a custom innosetup based installer with configuration options for path, desktop icon, foxit reader installation, and dosbox installation.

By default the installer will put a local copy of dosbox with the game's configuration file in the game's directory. Shortcuts in the start menu or desktop will launch dosbox with said configuration specified as an argument.

However, you can point the installer to your own copy of dosbox, and the installer will provide a configuration file for that, and all shortcuts will launch the game with that copy of dosbox instead.

GoG's dosbox configurations will always WORK, but they try to keep things very close to the original experience--fullscreen with no filters and low-quality FM synthesis music.

It is often desirable (and very easy) to edit GoG's configuration to make use of high-quality scaling filters, switch to windowed mode, and to change the game's music configuration to General Midi (GM) to make use of your soundcards' (or Windows') midi wavetable.
Thanks thats exactly what I wanted to confirm. I just wasn't sure about how they did it.
Posted December 15, 2010
Excuse me for resurrecting an old topic, but an issue that just came up for me seems to fit here best of all.

Has anyone else had trouble getting the GoG installer to pick up an already installed copy of the latest DOSBox when installing one of the games that includes it? I ran into this installing Tyrian 2000 just now; it told me the DOSBox I pointed it at either wasn't there or was outdated, neither of which is true. If possible, I'd prefer to avoid having an additional copy of DOSBox in the game's folder.

Thanks.
Posted December 15, 2010
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KoreanRedDragon: Excuse me for resurrecting an old topic, but an issue that just came up for me seems to fit here best of all.

Has anyone else had trouble getting the GoG installer to pick up an already installed copy of the latest DOSBox when installing one of the games that includes it? I ran into this installing Tyrian 2000 just now; it told me the DOSBox I pointed it at either wasn't there or was outdated, neither of which is true. If possible, I'd prefer to avoid having an additional copy of DOSBox in the game's folder.

Thanks.
If you're trying to point the installer to version 0.74, then yes, GOG installers don't recognise it.
Posted December 15, 2010
D'oh, missed that when searching for already existing topics. Thanks again.
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