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http://www.gog.com (Good old Games) is a site that honestly re-distribute old classic games.
You can vote for games that should be available through their sevices.

So do your duty and vote for all the CK-games. Especially the sixth game since it can't be bought on Steam or any place else i believe(?).

Good for loyal gamers who like to be honest with their gaming :)
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Post by Commander Spleen »

Where does the voting take place? I don't see anything of the like on the site...
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Scroll down the page, and on the right you can click on "jump to wishlist" or try http://www.gog.com/en/wishlist/.
But you have to be a member of their community to vote.
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desperate measures for the universe is toast ;)
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Post by DSL »

Commander Spleen wrote:Where does the voting take place? I don't see anything of the like on the site...
Oh yeah sorry i forgot. tulip explained it all so well though.

jonnyspeight wrote:desperate measures for the universe is toast ;)
Perhaps if the first six games sold good they would consider making TUIT.
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Post by jonnyspeight »

good thinking!! that's why i actually signed up and am planning on voting whenever possible for all of them!!! btw, can you only vote once a day or soemthing?
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Post by Sciz CT »

Not a bad idea, but I'm not certain that it's even possible. Part of being on GOG means being XP/Vista compatible, and for older games that means the GOG team has acquired the source code and recompiled them for modern systems. Unfortunately, no one seems to actually have any of the Keen source code these days.
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Post by DSL »

They sell most of their games preconfigured with Dosbox so recompilation of the source is not nessesary.
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I didn't get anything from steam, but I heard that's how they do it there, just dosboxing it. Anyways, they're already selling Simon the Sorcerer on GOG which dates back to dos days, so I don't think compatibilty is a problem
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tulip wrote:I didn't get anything from steam, but I heard that's how they do it there, just dosboxing it.
Yeah, it's DosBox'd. The only thing that Steams me (pun intended) is that you have to be running steam and be connected to the internet to play it, and I don't see the games physically located on my system anywhere, even though all the scores and saves change when you use a different computer :stunned
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Post by Commander Spleen »

Hmm, one would think that'd be somewhere more convenient rather than buried at the bottom of a single page.

Anyway, voting complete!
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Post by jonnyspeight »

darn, need more votes, looks like you can only vote once...period!!! i'll have to make another account jsut to vote again :p
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Post by Ravey »

Added my vote.

Looks like the more mainstream games are clearly way beyond Keen, they've added some games seemingly at random though, so you never know I guess.
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tulip wrote:I didn't get anything from steam, but I heard that's how they do it there, just dosboxing it. Anyways, they're already selling Simon the Sorcerer on GOG which dates back to dos days, so I don't think compatibilty is a problem
Actually, they're selling the Windows versions of Simon the Sorcerer. But these games can be played with ScummVM anyway.

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