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With 700+ games discounted up to 90% off, daily special Bundle Deals, a constant stream of exciting Flash Sales, and some fantastic surprise giveaways, we launch into the season of gaming joy!

The biggest celebration of DRM-Free gaming this season is right now, right here on GOG.com! It's warm and nice outside, the summer draws ever closer, so let's make sure it's full of fantastic games. There's no one good way to spend your summer, but we know well that gaming can make every single one of them better. So, whether you plan to stay inside, hike into the wilderness, or take a boat into the calm sea, we'll make sure your laptop is filled with great DRM-Free games you can enjoy anytime, anywhere. To that end, we're holding our [url=http://www.gog.com]2014 DRM-Free Summer Sale!

Each day we'll present you with at least two special Bundle Deals with a selection of of great classics and indies available up to 90% off! As usual, you'll be able to buy just selected titles out of the bundle with a slightly lower discount, or complete your collection with just the ones you're missing, retaining the higher discount rate. Let's take a look at our offers for today, shall we?

Today, we seriously mix things up to bring you both lighthearted comedy as well as dark and morbid horror. The Legacy of Kain Saga is the Full House of gaming with its family themes and colorful presentation. Across four episodes ironically titled Soul Reaver, Soul Reaver 2, Blood Omen 2, and Defiance the series explores the relation between Kain, a authoritative father with obvious god complex, and Raziel, his rebellious son with questionable fashion sense. The story also includes many of their relatives from extended family, that cannot help but to make a mess in their imaginary homeland called Nosgoth. Hilarity ensues! All this cheerful moments for only $5.96 (that's 75% off!). The other of our offers today, is bound to chill the blood in your veins with its terrifying setting alone. The Deponia Complete Trilogy takes place on a distant planet. A planet, that long ago must have been not so different from our own Earth. Yet now, it is a grim and dark place that suffered a tragic environmental disaster. The surface of the planet is now completely covered with waste. Toxic rain flushes the pollution deep into the ground, poisoning it and making the land barren. Way above, there's the remaining enclave of civilization, housing the remnant of the human race. Now imagine one of them, a defenseless girl, falls down to the toxic junkyard below. Even though she doesn't die instantly poisoned with every imaginable toxin, her future looks grim. The wasteland is filled with danger, and soon she'll find out that she is not alone among the towering piles of garbage. What strange mutated monsters could have survived in such conditions? And what do they eat? The horror! All the thrills for just $11.97 (that's 80% off!). There you have it, a mix of laughter and cries of despair to fill your weekend with gripping gaming. Or did we overdo the mixing?

On top of that, almost all of our catalog has been discounted by up to 50%. On top of that, our front page is overflowing with excellent Flash Sales on single games. You can grab them up to 90% as well, but don't take to long, as they come and go pretty fast! Why don't you head out to GOG.com front page, and see what's happening right NOW!
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Tranquil.Suit: Err, any particular reason why so many are expecting Banished to be one of tomorrow's freebies ?
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skeletonbow: Yes, the flash sale was reverse engineered and of the 230+ games determined to be in it, all but 8 of them appeared in the Flash sales day to day. Since then on special days 4 of the remaining games appeared as freebie giveaways as predicted (last Tuesday), one was a discounted DLC for one of the freebies, one was a discounted game, leaving 2 remaining unknowns. Banished, and Omerta Gold or something like that.

So, we predict that /something/ is happening with Banished, either it will be a freebie or a discounted game in the flash sale, or some other unknown but freebie or discount are the most plausible.
For the record, 3 images have not made an appearance...
Omerta: City of Gangsters Gold Edition (There is some debate whether it will or not)
Banished
Outlast: Whistleblower DLC
Earlier this week someone posted a thread asking about people's thoughts of some of the best video game soundtrack music. First thing that came to my mind was one of my personal all time favourites - the <span class="bold">Warcraft II Soundtrack</span>. I listened to the whole thing on Youtube once, and all week ever since then I have the Warcraft II songs permeating my brain and I'm humming them around the house and whatnot. LOL I figured I'd try to corrupt some of the rest of you with it also so I am not alone with it stuck in my head. ;o)
Post edited June 28, 2014 by skeletonbow
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phaolo: Are there gonna be more freebies tomorrow? In the afternoon?
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Getcomposted: No one knows for sure, but I think we're all hoping that Banished makes an appearance as a freebie!
Thanks, but.. I doubt it, unless it's for like 10 copies for 20 seconds XD
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skeletonbow: Earlier this week someone posted a thread asking about people's thoughts of some of the best video game soundtrack music. First thing that came to my mind was one of my personal all time favourites - the Warcraft II Soundtrack. I listened to the whole thing on Youtube once, and all week ever since then I have the Warcraft II songs permeating my brain and I'm humming them around the house and whatnot. LOL I figured I'd try to corrupt some of the rest of you with it also so I am not alone with it stuck in my head. ;o)
Do do do dodo dooo doo doo dooo dooo!

Dun dun dun dundundun dun dun doo doo doo...

Dude I have that sdtrk and haven't played the game in like 10 years XD
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Ragnarblackmane: Do do do dodo dooo doo doo dooo dooo!

Dun dun dun dundundun dun dun doo doo doo...

Dude I have that sdtrk and haven't played the game in like 10 years XD
Yeah, I'd like to go through it and Dark Portal again sometime in the future, it's been probably 8 years since I had a good game of it and much longer since I went through the single player campaigns. A game that never becomes boring. :)

WE'RE BEING ATTACKED!

THEY'RE DESTROYING OUR CITY!

:)
I've a decision to make fellow GoGers!

Both Medal of Honor:Allied War Chest and Shadowrun Returns have been on my wishlist for awhile. Both are massively discounted...yet...I really should only buy one.

Help me decide:)
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skeletonbow: but I have about 19 PCs here which date back to 1997
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TheJadedOne: 19? Eeek! That's a lot! I've only got 5 x86 PCs, the oldest of which is from around 1995 (and 4 non-x86 machines from the 80s, the most expensive of which cost me $130 not including accessories/expansions).

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skeletonbow: which are still technically able to boot and run an operating system although they've mostly not been powered up in well over a decade.
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TheJadedOne: Which means they are "able to boot" in your mind, but reality may be a different story. (Hard drives tend to lose bits over time. When they are in use, hard drives will auto-correct wrong bits they find, rewriting the sector with the correct bits. When not in use, wrong bits will accumulate until sectors become unreadable. SSDs are much, much worse than hard drives. I've read that reliable shelf life for data on a consumer SSD tends to be about one year, and for an enterprise SSD it's about 3 months. Even for a spinny-disk hard drive, 10 years is really pushing it.) Though if you have your OS disks (pressed CD variety) and are prepared to do a clean re-install, odds of success improve greatly (though at some point Windows started requiring validation and I wouldn't count on being able to validate OSes that MS doesn't even support anymore).

Note that 3 of my 4 machines (the other I disassembled/desoldered a long time ago) from the 80s all boot just fine (and they go from 'no power' to 'fully booted' in under 2 seconds). But that's because they boot from ROM -- ROM lasts (practically) forever! :-)

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skeletonbow: I also have operating system media for every major operating system going back to about 1990 either on CD/DVD or floppies
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TheJadedOne: LOL! Good luck with those 10+ year old floppies!

Years back I made an effort to try to get my 5 1/4" floppies (with original source code on them!) transferred to more modern media and into my (now) regular backup regime. Many of those floppies had unreadable bits on them. And those were DD (double density) disks -- higher density floppies go bad even faster. I often think that maybe some day I may make a proper "magnetic surface scanner" -- I'm sure I can recover that old data with a sufficiently high-resolution surface scan and some 2D pattern recognition to tease out the '1's and '0's, but it's hard to imagine when it would actually be worth the effort for me to do that.
I've heard many people talk about the short lifespans of various types of media but I haven't found that to be the case. A couple years ago I went and played with some of the old hardware I kept and I was surprised how little trouble I had reading much of my old media. I set up an old 286 and 486 (technically Pentium Overdrive) and had little trouble reading old floppy disks, CDs, hard drives, etc. The hard drives were mostly in the tens to hundreds of MEGAbytes in capacity and still had all the old data perfectly readable on them. Even most of my old burned CD-Rs were readable and I had a CD burner back when they were quite rare (my first one was a 2x write/ 8x read, caddy load drive). I was even able to reinstall many of my old games from their original floppies.

I did have some issues reading the floppies at first but that turned out to be the drives rather than the disks themselves. I found a bunch of floppy drives that had gone bad but once I installed a good one, all the disks were perfectly readable. Since you mentioned having trouble reading floppy disks, I'd suggest you confirm the drive you're using is still good. If it actually is that the disks have become corrupt, there is an OLD (like late 90's) program called Revive that I've found can work magic on corrupt disks. It may be worth a try.

Now, I can't speak about the longevity of SSDs but 1 year/3 months sounds quite short. I'm also not sure why an enterprise drive would have a shorter data integrity lifespan than a consumer drive. I guess only time will tell but frankly I don't trust SSDs nearly as much as hard drives.
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mortalkombat: or unless the sole 100% OWNER of this material gave up the rights to that material...aka removes the copyright, aka makes it freeware to the public -> you can do almost any use but doesnt allow for usage for gain/profit
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TheJadedOne: That is incorrect. If the owner actually gave up their rights to the material (which in the US can be done by a simple published proclamation that you are placing your work in the public domain), then the material can be used for any (legal) purpose, including for profit.

For example, a data structure I have used a number of times in the past is the splay tree. One of the inventors of the data structure (Daniel Dominic Sleator) created an implementation (code) for the splay tree and placed it in the public domain in 1992 as can be seen this code where they even have a comment in the code saying "Based on public domain code from Sleator.". (Note that they could and probably have also used the splay tree code in their non-open-source code as well, but obviously I can't provide links to that.) I based my splay tree code on Sleator's just as Apple did.

Even if the owner doesn't give up all their rights, that does not necessarily prevent commercial use. Some well known licenses that permit commercial use include the MIT license, the BSD licenses and the Creative Commons 'Attribution' license.
first off, its not my job and do not expect to collaborate on "copyright" and "patent" in respect to "any type of material" or "pc-game" in 2 sentences here.....

now, first off, you refer to US copyright law....
I'm not aware of the law....
secondly, you refer to a part, not the material....

i, for once, never heard someone giving up his rights for a pc-game or a movie, making it public, and someone else taking the movie as is, and selling it for profit....
that doesnt even make sense.....

ps: is not my place to decide or try to figure out, by law, international or regional, if you can take part of something public and use it for profit, either part of it or whole.....

i also know that, the current laws, protect copyright infrignment (aka the rights to the owner) until he gives up, or until an X amount of time passes, which if I recall, time is over 30 years or so.....

but taking the work that someone else created specifically for public use, and selling that work as is, like you are the owner, and you making money out of it??? well,thats something




http://lawofthegame.blogspot.gr/2007/06/copyright-what-every-gamer-developer.html
Post edited June 28, 2014 by mortalkombat
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Ragnarblackmane: I've a decision to make fellow GoGers!

Both Medal of Honor:Allied War Chest and Shadowrun Returns have been on my wishlist for awhile. Both are massively discounted...yet...I really should only buy one.

Help me decide:)
Shadowrun is pretty fun. It's sort of like Xcom. I've never played MoH.
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MWink: I've heard many people talk about the short lifespans of various types of media but I haven't found that to be the case.
Indeed, it varies. Here is the hard disk (a Quantum Fireball 7.6GB) that is and has been running in my router for about 7 years, and was in various machine incarnations before that back to when I bought it brand new around 1997 or so. The drive has no operating system visible bad sectors on it and no noticeable problems and it is around 17 years old and has been in almost constant operation the entire time 24 hours a day:

pts/0 root@router:~# hdparm -I /dev/hda

/dev/hda:

ATA device, with non-removable media
Model Number: QUANTUM FIREBALL EL7.6A
Serial Number: 347816714615
Firmware Revision: A08.1100
Standards:
Used: ATA/ATAPI-4 T13 1153D revision 15
Supported: 4 3 2
Configuration:
Logical max current
cylinders 15907 15907
heads 15 15
sectors/track 63 63
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CHS current addressable sectors: 15032115
LBA user addressable sectors: 15032115
device size with M = 1024*1024: 7339 MBytes
device size with M = 1000*1000: 7696 MBytes (7 GB)
Capabilities:
LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)
bytes avail on r/w long: 4
Standby timer values: spec'd by Vendor, no device specific minimum
R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16 Current = 16
DMA: sdma0 sdma1 sdma2 mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 *udma2
Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
Cycle time: no flow control=120ns IORDY flow control=120ns
Commands/features:
Enabled Supported:
* SMART feature set
* Power Management feature set
* Write cache
* Look-ahead
* WRITE_BUFFER command
* READ_BUFFER command
* DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE



I've had various hard disks come and go during that time from various brands including some Quantums, but this drive just wont stop! I've got some other Fireballs that still work also but they're not in 24/7 operation as this one is. It's not idle either, that is my router but it also is a webserver and holds many other local network functions that utilize the disk throughout the day every day, so it's gotten a real beating over the years no matter how one slices it. :)

I've got about a half dozen or so disks that date back to around 1994 that still work to this day (I know because they were all fully tested in the last 12 months). Wish I could say the same for EVERY hard disk I've ever bought but these ones sure stood the test of time, especially the ones that have been up and running most of this time. :)
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Ragnarblackmane: I've a decision to make fellow GoGers!

Both Medal of Honor:Allied War Chest and Shadowrun Returns have been on my wishlist for awhile. Both are massively discounted...yet...I really should only buy one.

Help me decide:)
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JustSayin: Shadowrun is pretty fun. It's sort of like Xcom. I've never played MoH.
You think it's worth it without the DLC?
I finally have the satisfaction of seeing a "You own everything from this deal :)" badge. :P
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Ragnarblackmane: I've a decision to make fellow GoGers!

Both Medal of Honor:Allied War Chest and Shadowrun Returns have been on my wishlist for awhile. Both are massively discounted...yet...I really should only buy one.

Help me decide:)
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JustSayin: Shadowrun is pretty fun. It's sort of like Xcom. I've never played MoH.
I would choose Shadowrun too - I think it has better replayability. But they are two entirely different games, with totally different gameplay, so you must choose wisely...

If you can wait, i'm sure that in the near future, there will be a bundle with Shadowrun + Dragonfall expansion.. That is, If you can wait.... i know i am. :-)
2-0 final score
Post edited June 28, 2014 by mortalkombat
I went with Shadowrun earlier... Now I broke down and got Dragon Commander on Steam (just came up on sale) since I keep missing it on GOG.... oh well, spread the wealth I guess. Time for bed!