This one is potentially resolved (let's see what their new solution would be). What's still pending is their TOS problem.

See here: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/please_fix_your_user_agreement_to_allow_reverse_engineering_and_tinkering_when_its_fair_use_to_ret/post1 [External Link]

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There a lot of good games there, but the problem is - they are all in one pile, without any way to sort them by genre.

By the way, to enable better interface in archive.org, open this link: https://archive.org/v2 [External Link]

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I tried a few - they work pretty well! In general I've heard that DosBox in Emscripten is still WIP, but a lot of games work well.

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Good to see them opening it. Let's hope they'll also maintain it going forward.

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The password method was already discovered by the community. This doesn't make it any better however. Tomorrow they can easily change that method without warning. This is DRM in some way.

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A correction, PlayOnLinux doesn't use a different installation of Wine for each game, it uses a different Wine prefix. I.e. binary installation of Wine is the same, but environment of each game can be isolated in order not to affect other games. And PlayOnLinux allows easily switching Wine version for each game prefix (for example when newer Wine comes out) as well as using different versions of Wine for different games when that is really needed.

Essentially PlayOnLinux is useful as Wine manager which allows decoupling prefix from the Wine version and isolating games from each other. I practically never use those installation scripts, and prefer manual installation in PlayOnLinux (since those scripts usually use older Wine than the most recent available in PlayOnLinux). But they are useful to look up some specific settings if default installation doesn't produce useable result.

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Quoting: toni

Quoting: ShmerlCD Projekt Red should hire him to work on porting REDengine to Linux ;)

I'm pretty sure he would love to work on an engine "with linux in mind", and not only porting, even when it was on a not yet released game :)

REDengine has unreleased games - Witcher 2 and Cyberpunk 2077. CDPR just didn't show any eagerness to add Linux support to their engine yet.

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Quoting: CheesenessWhen I spoke to him last week, he said he was looking forward to working with creative people on new projects. I imagine he'll help out with Linux stuff, but it sounds like he's keen to sink his teeth into something that isn't digging through other people's code for existing projects.

CD Projekt Red should hire him to work on porting REDengine to Linux ;)

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Is it going to be DRM-free? KS page doesn't mention it. I'd confirm that before backing the project.

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I wish studios would get enough expertise to develop Linux games in house. All this outsourcing business sounds like second class citizen treatment to me.

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