Go On Gaming? Giggling Old Gal?

Good Old Games?
Patty

Grumpy Old Geezer

Could be the Guild of Greeters, a forum and website of support for URU - Live.

Dadguy

Blsbet, GOG stands for Good old Games and they have a wonderful assortment of games that they remastered to work on XP/Vista etc with no tweaking and at a great price and with no DRM.

You can read more Here.

Ana

Can't resist even though we know what the real words are:

grizzled old gramaphone

grand old goat

greedy old gopher

LOL

Tracy, who has always loved this kind of game

giant orbiting gizzard
gigantic oracular germ
ghastly orange gremlin
ghoulish obstinate grappler

How long would it take to download 2.4 GB. I do have broadband but it isn't very fast.
I'm so pleased I might have the opportunity to play some of these wonderful old games that were around before I ever had a computer.
I'm particularly pleased at the prospect of being able to play the Gabriel Knight games.
What does DRM mean?

Meryl, there is no accurate way to calculate your time to download. It flunctuates depending their servers, how many are trying to download etc. I have times that I can download something in ten minutes or 4 hours and they can be the same size.

DRM is the copywrite protection. These are all free of restrictions.

Ana

DRM stands for Digital Rights Management. Examples are Securom, StarForce and Tages.

Games downloaded from GOG have, blessedly, no DRM whatsoever.

Guess that's why they call themselves Good Old Games.

"Guess that's why they call themselves Good Old Games. "

And what a well deserved title it is !!!!

grungy overcrowded garage

GOG is the single best thing, that has happened to the gamer community in many years - IMHO

Also, their forums are blessedly free of many of those young kids, that only get on to flame or post inappropiate things...

The staff behind GOG are also very nice and work their behind off to try and get what we ask of them.

"The staff behind GOG are also very nice and work their behind off to try and get what we ask of them."

And that sounds like a remarkably familiar set up to another place we all know and love to visit !!


So, are we lucky or are we lucky ????

Just loved your definition of GOG Becky

That's why I love Gameboomers, you guy are always such a HOOT!

Meryl,
I have very slow dsl, but by using GOG's downloader you can pause and come back later. I set mine for 3 games about 7plus gigs and just went on cleaning house or playing a game and even a nap, when I got up they were done. I think probably about just a guess it took me about four hours or more for Gabriel Knight 2 it's 2.7 gigs.

Charllotte

Mr Lipid-

Loved "ghoulish obstinate grappler" !!!!

What a hoot! LOL

Tracy

umm.... ok thanks . I'll check out the site

*blsbet44 is left wondering what she started*

***EDIT
OK This site looks GREAT. BAAAAAAGS

Sheesh Ana you HAD to put the link up, didn't you

My bank account just gave me a LOOK!

Hey are the GOG free games actually FREE? I see that the manual is extra but if it says free it's really FREE?!

*blsbet44 waiting for an answer*

Yes! They are FREE - no charge

kthnx

Just downloaded the first Gabriel Knight at 375 MB or thereabouts and it took over 2 hours. The 2nd Gabriel Knight is 2.4 GB so I think I'll play the first one first to see if I like it.
I'm just about the furthest one can get from the exchange and still have broadband and all my downloads are very slooooow. But it's interesting to hear that it fluctuates and depends on the game server at the time. I didn't know that.
Have to agree that this GOG service is a Godsend at any speed. We are very lucky!
And I wouldn't have known about this or Big Fish or a whole host of other things if it weren't for Gameboomers. So glad I found you all.
love
Meryl

p.s. Can I do other things on the computer while the games download or will that slow down the download?

I think that it would depend on exactly what it is you're doing.
Some programs eat download time while other don't really affect it at all.

that's what I've noticed on my PC