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GOG are doing another sweet giveaway of some classics for the next two days so don't miss out if you love RPGs. Consider this your quick tip of the day!

The Eye of the Beholder Trilogy with 1991's Eye of the Beholder and Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon plus the 1993 title Eye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth Drannor. If you just want to run on over and grab it, find the page for all three here. The giveaway ends 19th June, 5 PM UTC.

Also now on is a big Dungeons & Dragons themed sale on GOG with some true classics including:

While we have you here, what's your all time favourite PC RPG? Let us know in the comments.

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Mohandevir Jun 17, 2020
Quoting: razing32
Quoting: MohandevirYeah... Talking about old hardware... Did I mentionned that I have played The Bard's Tale and Wizardry on an Apple IIE, with the green monochrome screen?

Anybody on a VIC-20?

Couple questions here :
1.Where do you people FIND that stuff ?!
2.How can you afford that stuff ?

Excellent question! In my case I "exploited" my older brother who bought that computer for his programmation courses. He's 13 years older than me so...


Last edited by Mohandevir on 17 June 2020 at 10:37 pm UTC
razing32 Jun 17, 2020
Quoting: Mohandevir
Quoting: razing32
Quoting: MohandevirYeah... Talking about old hardware... Did I mentionned that I have played The Bard's Tale and Wizardry on an Apple IIE, with the green monochrome screen?

Anybody on a VIC-20?

Couple questions here :
1.Where do you people FIND that stuff ?!
2.How can you afford that stuff ?

Excellent question! In my case I "exploited" my older brother who bought that computer for his programmation courses. He's 13 years older than me so...

What programming course is he taking that he needs an Apple 2 ? Really curios now.
tmtvl Jun 17, 2020
Oh man, Eye of the Beholder, now that takes me back... to Kikoskia's LPs of the series. Sandstar, Rune, Valendra, and Lilanva have become as familiar as Spunty and Archer Jim.
no_information_here Jun 17, 2020
Quoting: MohandevirAnybody on a VIC-20?
No adventure games on mine, that I remember. Only choplifter and a few others on cartridge. My first adventure was Zork III on the C64.
Mohandevir Jun 18, 2020
Quoting: razing32
Quoting: Mohandevir
Quoting: razing32
Quoting: MohandevirYeah... Talking about old hardware... Did I mentionned that I have played The Bard's Tale and Wizardry on an Apple IIE, with the green monochrome screen?

Anybody on a VIC-20?

Couple questions here :
1.Where do you people FIND that stuff ?!
2.How can you afford that stuff ?

Excellent question! In my case I "exploited" my older brother who bought that computer for his programmation courses. He's 13 years older than me so...

What programming course is he taking that he needs an Apple 2 ? Really curios now.

No idea... I was 6 or 7 at the time... Now you know my age.

Basic maybe?


Last edited by Mohandevir on 18 June 2020 at 12:28 am UTC
Shmerl Jun 18, 2020
Quoting: MohandevirTalking about GoG... It seems, but I'm not sure what to make of that, that one of the threads requesting a Linux port of the GoG Galaxy client just got changed to "In progress"... What does that could mean?

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/galaxy/release_the_gog_galaxy_client_for_linux

This has been "in progress" for years.


Last edited by Shmerl on 18 June 2020 at 12:43 am UTC
Mezron Jun 18, 2020
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I don't normally play RPGs but from the ones that I did play and complete my favorites are "Planescape: Torment" on my old Windows 98 SE machine back when it came out and "Saturday Morning RPG" that I picked up on Desura when it debuted. I have fond memories of both. I really wish SMRPG was a bigger hit so that add-ons and mods were available for it.

Going to give this one a shot when I get around to it. I loved playing table top fantasy board games in the D&D universe but not the actual p&p stuff.
Eike Jun 18, 2020
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Quoting: razing32
Quoting: Mohandevir
Quoting: razing32
Quoting: MohandevirYeah... Talking about old hardware... Did I mentionned that I have played The Bard's Tale and Wizardry on an Apple IIE, with the green monochrome screen?

Anybody on a VIC-20?

Couple questions here :
1.Where do you people FIND that stuff ?!
2.How can you afford that stuff ?

Excellent question! In my case I "exploited" my older brother who bought that computer for his programmation courses. He's 13 years older than me so...

What programming course is he taking that he needs an Apple 2 ? Really curios now.

Did you miss this was decades ago?

Which leads me to another question:
Might it be possible that Linux especially appeals to (us) old farts?
Guppy Jun 18, 2020
FYI; The Eye of beholder games can also be run on android units.

I use this dosbox for it; https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bruenor.magicbox.free

but presumably any of them will work.

Not sure if there is a dosbox app for iOS
kurp Jun 18, 2020
Quoting: MohandevirTalking about GoG... It seems, but I'm not sure what to make of that, that one of the threads requesting a Linux port of the GoG Galaxy client just got changed to "In progress"... What does that could mean?

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/galaxy/release_the_gog_galaxy_client_for_linux
I always doubt they'll do this anytime soon. There is no business reason for that. I'm Linux-only user and I think it'd be great to get Galaxy for Linux, but let's face the fact that Steam made a huge progress here, with their one-click SteamPlay. 2 years ago Galaxy for Steam would be nice replacement. Today Steam client is something more for Linux users, it gives you access to almost full library, no matter Win/Mac/Linux official support. I doubt company like GOG would be ever able to deliver this kind of solution for us...
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