I love GoL because it puts up and even encourages me to prattle. :P

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Could be worth a go if the controls are not too hard to wrap my head around.

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Good, good.

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Well, to be perfectly honest I have yet to complete Justine, as I always get ate in the water part. But still...

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I am odd because I finished it? :|

At any rate, it is the same engine as the original game I believe, so it should be properly native. Thank Edward Rudd for his work on that. ;)

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Well, a year behind its original schedule, but the original release plan was madness. Good to see it is trending to a release now though.

I am actually looking more forward to Asylum, but that is probably because I preferred Penumbra to Amnesia anyway, and Asylum looks closer to it than even Frictional's later endeavors.

Still added this to my lengthy Desura shopping cart though. ;)

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Quoting: s_d

Quoting: HamishSo I do not quite get the point of this little lecture here.

Wow.  It seems you've taken offense where none was intended.  I'm sorry, Hamish.

No, I was not offended. Just not sure what point you were trying to make.

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Quoting: ShmerlAnd specialized config files - that's normal. They can simply adjust those for each OS (since there is a difference between Windows and POSIX  path syntax for example), and it should be quite enough to run the game with distros' emulators.

Which would be very complex and increase the chance for error, limit the amount of distributions it will work on, and give GoG less control for little user benefit. There is simply no need to make one emulator install fit all, especially as far as GoG is concerned.

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Quoting: ShmerlDo you mean they distribute modified DosBox and ScummVM? I'm not aware of that. None of the DOS games I got from GOG so far had any problems running in stock DosBox and ScummVM. It's not an indicator of course, since I have just a small subset of their games. But sure, if they need a modified emulator - the only way is to ship it with the game. On the other hand, why can't they submit their patches upstream in such cases?

I am not referring to specific code modifications to either of the emulators (if there were code modifications that were not released they would be in violation of the GPL) but specific tweaks to the emulators configurations and specific parameters that affect how they are launched, many of which can not be done globally for all games. These are necessary but not very flexible parts of many of their products.

Quoting: ShmerlI'm not grateful for them proliferating any DRM on Linux. I'm grateful that they increase interest in Linux as a platform for developers. Credit should go where it's due. And criticism where it is due as well.

Indeed.

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Quoting: SilviuIt's like complaining that you have to log on GOG's site to be able to download games.

What is at issue is the fact that Steam sells DRM enabled games and can be a DRM platform in of itself, not that all of the games it sells have DRM. And both of these issues don't apply to GoG.

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