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Images of Original Installation Media
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Pseudoman It would be nice to include the images of or at least the files included on the original installation media the games came on. That way, nostalgiacs could burn their own facsimiles... everybody loves tangible media.
seasicksailor I'd love this, and it should be fairly low-effort by GOG with minimal QA needed beyond checksums of the generated image files. One example of a game with a complex installation and configuration process is Ultima VII, which plainly won't run unless you install it in the right way. The packaged version on GOG today won't run on a real MS-DOS 6.22 system, and can't be recovered to the best of my ability. I hate to have to fall back on abandonware sites to play the games I've paid for.
SuperBetter1 I think there is a workaround to get an original image out of installation files, at least for some games, but it would still be neater and more transparent this way.
mm201 It would also be nice to have a minimally modified installation media that only removes the DRM for games where that's relevant.
Froyton I got myself a vintage DOS laptop. I would love if I could download the original setup files of DOS games and copy them over to floppy.
anakinao it would be nice to start dos games via dosbox turbo on android devices!
jorlin I like this for use in emulators of my own choice(not forced DosBOX or ScummVM) , however: many of the original media had DRM on them. Besides, gaming companies are bought and sold so quickly that this quite difficult to achieve legally.
GremlInterplay This would be great and is probably what quite a few people think they're getting when they first sign up, or even until they look into using GOG purchases on a retro machine they may build later on.
In short it would be more faithful to old gaming.
kastevalssi It drives me mad so much that (at least some of) the games I've legally purchased DON'T HAVE all the files that were originally included with the games. GoG tries to be "helpful" and the games come pre-configured without the Install.exe files. I want to configure the games myself to my heart's content, without resorting to manually editing the files or downloading from abandonware sites. Just give me the full, intact ISO or BIN/CUE files, dammit! I know perfectly well how to handle them!
ZFR I got an old IBM 486 running, and I'd love to have the original DOS discs files for older games. I know they have to be bundled with Dosbox and use gog installer for new PCs, but it would be great if the original is there so it could be played like it was meant to on older computers.
IRS I'd really love this feature. Especially for games that has a minimum install option.
This is the only reason I haven't bought Wing Commander 3, as my flight controllers are game port devices and the fact that my old desktop is running out of hard drive space. The other option, installing on a network drive, can sometimes be a real pain.
phaolo I agree with this, I'd like to be able to collect images of the original games too! (I mostly like single ISOs, when possible)
Please, avoid new installers with unaccessible files inside (unless it was so) or packing different titles\episodes together in single releases! :|
I can accept, however, some modifications like compressed cda tracks or custom folders\archives with new patch\fix\addon files.
aleksej Yeah, some games have .gog files (renamed bin) + .inst (renamed cue) with .ogg files as CD tracks. For what? For smaller sizes? In 21st century? WTF! GOG crew, please, add original non-altered media for all DOS games (iso, img atleast just zip archive with workable DOS copy of game), please, please, please!
Pseudoman I wasn't aware about the .gog files. I guess you learn something new everyday.
Kuroko First of all, sorry for understanding you wrong. And secondly, some games already come with them. Not all though. The Filetype is .gog but they're just standard ISO disks you can mount and burn after changing the file type to ".iso". For example Gabriel Knight is such a title. :-)
Pseudoman By "images" I mean binary images of the original discs. ISO and IMG files. The files included on the original compact discs and floppy disks. Not pictures of what came in the box, but the data that what was included on the discs.
Kuroko It might be a fun addition. However why would Gog.com do it when you can hunt them yourself using for example Google image search? It isn't the easiest thing to do either to find pictures of the original installation media. I'd rather see more game related high quality artwork instead of the pictures of the original installation media. And even that I can search from the web myself.
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