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Indiana Jones® and the Fate of Atlantis™, a classic Lucasfilm adventure game starring the fan-favorite action hero, is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux on GOG.com, for only $5.99.

In Indiana Jones® and the Fate of Atlantis™, you play the role of Indiana Jones, famed archaeologist-adventurer, as he attempts to discover and explore long-fabled Atlantis. Nazi agents, eager to unleash the powers of Atlantis against an unsuspecting world, are hot on Indy’s heels… or have they already passed him? Here’s where you come in: you direct the actions of Indy (and, occasionally, his one-time colleague turned psychic, Sophia Hapgood) in his search for Atlantis. Periodically, Indy will be called upon to drive a car, ride a camel, pilot a balloon, operate a submarine, and repair and use Atlantean machinery. Beyond that, there will be a heap of mysterious puzzles to unravel and a slew of dangerous encounters to survive. With the help of your wits, your fists, and your trusted companion, you and Indy will eventually discover the true Fate of Atlantis!

Point’n click your way through fistfights, puzzles, balloon rides, car chases and Indy one-liners in Indiana Jones® and the Fate of Atlantis™, for only $5.99 on GOG.com!

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LentFilms: GOG has a history of needlessly compressing audio like this. The 7th Guest and Gobliiins met similar fates, with OGG/MP3 compression done to the Redbook tracks.
It really bothers me knowing that I'm receiving an inferior product then what was released original, all for a pathetic improvement in download speed.

I made a community wish list to try and fix this issue a while back but no one seems to be biting...
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/remove_lossy_compression_from_games
Upvoted and I totally agree. Any arguments about negligible differences in quality is really beside the point, we should get the games in their full quality as they were originally released. If I wanted to download compressed or compromised rips of games I'd use a time machine and go back to 1999.

I can see for a few rare games it might be difficult to source an original, undamaged CD to extract the redbook tracks from, but this is hardly true for most of the games with ogg-compressed audio on GOG, and definitely not true for Indy 4, since the Steam release has the original MONSTER.SOU. I'm not really a forum regular so I don't know for sure, but it seems to me GOG rarely asks for help in locating original materials/language versions/etc. either, it's always some user who has to offer it where they feel something is missing.

So yeah GOG, I wish you would add the option for uncompressed/lossless FLAC installers where applicable.

With regards to Indy 4, since I already own it twice over from before I'm actually tempted to try the 30-day money back option citing technical difficulties that no matter what I do I can't seem to get the original quality audio from the game, but that would probably be a bit immature. Needless to say I won't be re-buying any of the other upcoming LucasArts adventures if they're going to be affected by similar shenanigans.
Post edited November 01, 2014 by Pyoko
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Pyoko: It's compressed using OGG, if it were FLAC the file would have been called MONSTER.SOF[..]
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LentFilms: GOG has a history of needlessly compressing audio like this. The 7th Guest and Gobliiins met similar fates, with OGG/MP3 compression done to the Redbook tracks.[..]
What kind of music does Indy4 have? The original dos version only had midi (great tunes).
Have these been recorded (like those remade by the authors with good synths for free) or are the tracks completely new?

Also, what you mean with Redbook.. those games with cda tracks?
They only work with a faitful CD image copy (not to .iso), but GoG doesn't seem to like it :\
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LentFilms: GOG has a history of needlessly compressing audio like this. The 7th Guest and Gobliiins met similar fates, with OGG/MP3 compression done to the Redbook tracks.[..]
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phaolo: What kind of music does Indy4 have? The original dos version only had midi (great tunes).
Have these been recorded (like those remade by the authors with good synths for free) or are the tracks completely new?

Also, what you mean with Redbook.. those games with cda tracks?
They only work with a faitful CD image copy (not to .iso), but GoG doesn't seem to like it :\
I think it's the digitized sound (e.g. voices and sound fx) that has been compressed. The music should be rendered via MIDI and thus unaffected.
Post edited November 01, 2014 by Pseudoman
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phaolo: What kind of music does Indy4 have? The original dos version only had midi (great tunes).
Have these been recorded (like those remade by the authors with good synths for free) or are the tracks completely new?

Also, what you mean with Redbook.. those games with cda tracks?
They only work with a faitful CD image copy (not to .iso), but GoG doesn't seem to like it :\
The music is midi as it's always been but that's not the problem here, in this case the issue is that they've only provided the file with all the speech and sound effects in a modified, ogg-compressed version.

Yes, redbook refers to the CD audio tracks.
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Pseudoman: I think it's the digitized sound (e.g. voices and sound fx) that has been compressed. The music should be rendered via MIDI and thus unaffected.
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Pyoko: The music is midi as it's always been but that's not the problem here, in this case the issue is that they've only provided the file with all the speech and sound effects in a modified, ogg-compressed version.
Thank god that at least Indy4 still uses the original music (even if the remade tracks would be very accurate).
I don't know about voices&fx, because I only tried the talkie version once, but how much space is saved with lossy and is the sound much different from lossless?