My question goes like this, "I've got a lot of MS-Dos games lying around in my house collecting dust, and I was wondering if GoG takes donations to help them with their cause to put out these games for other people to play?" (Some games that are not on GoG atm)

I know that they probably have to go through some immense process to get some of these games on this site. License, Abandonware and so on.

Here is just a small list of games.

Quake
Shadow Warrior
Shadow Man
Sin
Sin Mission Pack: Wages of Sin
Warlords Battlecry
Warlords Battlecry 3
Diablo
Diablo Hellfire (Expansion)
Dino Crisis 2
Tactical Ops: Assault of Terror
Outwars
Soldier of Fortune 2: Double Helix

..and much more!

Me and my brother have reach the age where we're too busy to play video games as much as we used to. And when we do play something, it'll be with Steam, Origin, GoG, so on.

Either buy games for yourself, or gift games to others. By buying current games from GOG, we will have more chance of adding to the GOG catalogue.

Thank you for your reply. I'll be doing my part to help by purchasing much older games that I don't own anymore from this site.

GoG = Helps fills the gap of my collection of games that went missing. :)

No problem, and i'm sure you'll find some games to enjoy :)

Alternatively, donating money to DOSBox, SCUMVM and other project related to retro gaming is probably not a bad idea.

DOSBox is all well and good, but development has pretty much died off over the past year or so, and very little beyond the odd minor bugfix has been submitted to SourceForge.

It's good to see qbix still committing to the repo once in a while, but I can well see DOSBox being forked at some point.

As DOSBox is so essential to older games, surely it'd be worth a company buying out and investing in it. Then they could potentially have exclusive infastructure to release those games.

DOSBox is GPL so no, they couldn't really do exclusive architecture.

Hmmm...depends how said company would treat it. If they did nothing but close the source and develop it for internal purposes, we wouldn't be any further than we are now. All that would happen is that someone would fork the last GPL'd copy of the source code.

I think it needs more voluntary corporate sponsorship than to be bought out. In fact, I might be wrong, but doesn't GOG support DOSBox financially?

Yeah, i think that was what i was trying to say. The fact that if progress is slow, we all depend on Dosbox, so any help in making it better would benefit us all.

Well, to be honest, DOSBox is to all extents and purposes usable for its intended purpose. That being said, it could do with a great deal of improvement, and there are so many directions that such a valuable codebase could take, and it's quite frankly being held back by a developer base that seems to have kind of anxiety about expanding DOSBox's functionality.

If those games have their original boxes, I'll buy em. Sin (which I *love*), Shadowman and Shadow Warrior are a few titles which I've been lurking around on eBay for a while for.

Boom!