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General discussionI buy games from GOG... and they work!!!(37 posts)(37 posts)
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Posted September 08, 2019
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Darvond: I doubt you had to suffer though tape drives and having to manually wind things to the data track then.
I have indeed used tape drives, but that has nothing to do with my point. They were slow and inconvenient, but they worked as expected and you didn't have to spend hours hacking your computer just to load a game.
Posted September 08, 2019
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Darvond: I doubt you had to suffer though tape drives and having to manually wind things to the data track then.
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eric5h5: I have indeed used tape drives, but that has nothing to do with my point. They were slow and inconvenient, but they worked as expected and you didn't have to spend hours hacking your computer just to load a game.
Worked as expected meaning 5 minutes into loading, there's a read error at 2300, thus start again?
Posted September 09, 2019
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XYCat: I buy games from GOG too and they also work. We can be friends as we apparently have much in common :D
I guess a lot of people here can join our club :P... with a few exceptions.
Posted September 09, 2019
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Darvond: Worked as expected meaning 5 minutes into loading, there's a read error at 2300, thus start again?
Sounds like a faulty drive or tape, still nothing to do with not having to spend hours hacking your computer to get a game working.
Posted September 09, 2019
In the last couple of years I haven't installed a GOG game that didn't work flawlessly out of the box. I did have one problem with my antivirus deleting the executable, but that was easily solved by the gracious help of the community. I might find trouble some day, but isn't that why Support exists?
Posted September 09, 2019
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Darvond: Worked as expected meaning 5 minutes into loading, there's a read error at 2300, thus start again?
Never forget to calibrate the tape drive's head to the tape you want to use... tiny screwdriver ftw...
What a relief it was when I got a floppy disk drive - the calibration program could always run off a disk, otherwise you had to try-and-fail until you managed to load it from your tape, then switch to the other tape and re-calibrate for that one.
Posted September 09, 2019
There is a good few out of my list that straight up don't even work no matter all the fixes I try but I lived to accept it, hopefully they will work down the road with a Microsoft update. Seems to be the case with a lot of my other older games, they don't work and next update they do lol. as for the tinkering, I got a major handful that need it like swat 4 and unreal tournament 2004 as mentioned. Tbh I love this as it teaches you about how to work around some games and fix them and gets you to be a little more tech savvy.
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