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[Unkillable Cat]

While I believe that the Gold Box catalog would cause a stress on the GOG servers, I'm fairly certain that it won't be a server crash unless they have the Eye of the Beholder series in there.

We all know how awesome the Gold Box games are, but EotB1 is the second-highest selling title SSI ever relased, second only to Panzer General.

If GOG releases BOTH the Gold Box and the Black Box (EotB series) games at once, then their servers are gonna melt.

 

[Infinitron]

Some oldfag wishful thinking here, I think. No game or combination of games from the early 90s is going to cause GOG's servers to melt, unless it's Super Mario Bros 3 emulated or something like that.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

I'm just going off on the earlier responses in the thread.

It would be cool to watch though, wouldn't it...?

 

[Deuce Traveler]

^
It would be frustrating trying to log into the website and not being able to do so for hours or a day, but then it would put a smile on my face as realization hit me and I saw Released: SSI's Gold Box series on the top of GOG's front page. I would especially like it if that was followed with some fan pages for the FRUA modules. It would give some deserved credit to Ray Dyer and others.

 

[Infinitron]

Anno 1503 and 1701 released:
http://af.gog.com/game/anno_1503_ad?as=1649904300
http://af.gog.com/game/anno_1701_ad?as=1649904300

More Ubisoft...chances of Gold Box increasing?

 

[4249]

The pricing on the Anno games seems a bit confusing.

1602 - 9,09€
1503 - 5,49€
1701 - 11,89€

 

[Overboard]

Inflation.

 

[Rahdulan]

Inflation.

Cheeky bastard.

 

[Anthedon]

Ubisoft weekend promo http://af.gog.com/promo/ubisoft_weekend_promo_140815?as=1649904300

 

[Infinitron]

I wish they'd get the Eagle Watch expansion for the original Rainbow Six already. And Rogue Spear, too, while they're at it. Come on, Ubisoft, since you're releasing games on GOG again, hop to it.

Vote for them here: https://af.gog.com/wishlist/games/tom_clancys_rainbow_six_mission_pack_eagle_watch?as=1649904300
https://af.gog.com/wishlist/games/tom_clancys_rainbow_six_rogue_spear?as=1649904300

 

[Rafal]

I dont understand why people are so crazy about DRM free. And now GOG DRM Free kingdom have they own keys for some games..... Feeling Betrayed? lol
I just love Steam!

 

[J_C]

I dont understand why people are so crazy about DRM free. And now GOG DRM Free kingdom have they own keys for some games..... Feeling Betrayed? lol
I just love Steam!

Joined:
Yesterday

 

[pippin]

 

[Bruticis]

That's not my alt, btw.

 

[catfood]

Cine se scuză se acuză.

 

[tormund]

JudasIscariot Have you heared about this amazing game? Please shed some light on it at the next GOG meeting, and acquire the rights. Kthxbai:

You would be better off contacting Night Dive. They already released bunch of obscure old shooters
http://store.steampowered.com/app/328460/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/351820/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/329640
http://store.steampowered.com/app/329650/

I'm under impression that there isn't nearly as much interest for older FPS games as there is for vintage RPGs or some other genres.

 

[Astral Rag]

Made the mistake of buying "Speed Busters: American Highways". 15 year old me enjoyed this game a great deal, the gog re-release is another bad joke though:





Am I expected to download a crack and fix that sound error myself or what?

 

[:Flash:]

I bought Speed Busters for exactly the same reason (except it was probably 18 year old me). It works perfectly fine for me, but even though I used to be a master of this game I now suck at it.

 

[JudasIscariot]

Made the mistake of buying "Speed Busters: American Highways". 15 year old me enjoyed this game a great deal, the gog re-release is another bad joke though:





Am I expected to download a crack and fix that sound error myself or what?

From your video I can see you're not doing anything unusual as far as running the game. It *might* be something as simple as setting the game's executable to run as Admin as that usually fixes the "Give CD!" errors. In any case, please contact us so we can either get the game working for you or get you a refund in case we can't

 

[Lyric Suite]

JudasIscariot Have you heared about this amazing game? Please shed some light on it at the next GOG meeting, and acquire the rights. Kthxbai:

Decent shooter actually. You had fun powers to play with and gunplay was pretty good. Wouldn't mind playing it again.

 

[Astral Rag]

From your video I can see you're not doing anything unusual as far as running the game. It *might* be something as simple as setting the game's executable to run as Admin as that usually fixes the "Give CD!" errors. In any case, please contact us so we can either get the game working for you or get you a refund in case we can't

I already found a solution. It turns out that the Gog release of Speed Busters is more than a little racist

To our knowledge, this should only happen on French systems. Please download this file and extract the SpeedBusters.exe file into your game's installation folder. You should replace the old SpeedBusters.exe with the new one. This should fix the launch issue.
source

I do have a non-English/ non-Polish Windows but it's not French, using that .exe also fixes the "sound error". Anyway maybe you guys could add that alternative .exe to the game's downloads section...

 

[Neanderthal]

Revenant released.

 

[m_s0]

Fingers crossed it's one of those they actually did fiddle with to make them compatible, and not just one of those they bundled with a crack and called it a day.

 

[Blackstaff]

OK some news concerning the release of the old rpg series. Warning : it's more like hints than anything. Take all that with a pinch of salt, but that seems serious enough to me to warrant being posted here I think.

First there is our resident teasing maniac, Judas :

http://af.gog.com/forum/general/this_weeks_enigmatic_hint/post4553?as=1649904300

"Not a Hint but more of a warning

Prepare your wallets, whether you are on Windows, Mac, or Linux, for August 20th. That is all."

Then there is the planning for GOG twitch streaming on thursday :

THURSDAY, August 20th:
2pm GMT / 10am EDT / 7am PDT: RELEASE STREAM with Classicor
4pm GMT / 12pm EDT / 9am PDT: RELEASE STREAM with MegapiemanPHD
6pm GMT / 2pm EDT / 11am PDT: RELEASE STREAM with Outstar
8pm GMT / 4pm EDT / 1pm PDT: RELEASE STREAM with ScreamingJoypad and MegapiemanPHD
10pm GMT / 6pm EDT / 3pm PDT: RELEASE STREAM with Classicor

At least 5 new releases in a day, eh Smells like a new series entry to me
By the way, the outstar stream will most likeky be the one of SR:HK, and the screamingjoypad and megapiemanphd the trine 3 one. What's interesting with the three others is that classicor generally play old rpg games like ultima and co

What's even more interesting is that three new publishers just made their way in the list of GOG :

Westwood Associates & Strategic Simulations Inc.
Stormfront Studios & Strategic Simulations Inc.
Bethesda Softworks

SSI you say

EDIT : by the way, I don't know what to make of it but Bethesda has two entries now in the gog publisher list...

 

[Alchemist]

What's even more interesting is that three new publishers just made their way in the list of GOG :

Westwood Associates & Strategic Simulations Inc.
Stormfront Studios & Strategic Simulations Inc.

Eye of the Beholder series incoming. As for Stormfront, they did a couple of the later Gold Box games with SSI - so maybe those too.