http://boxerapp.com/
Look at this site. Better yet, look at the "shelf" they have on there. Someone took more than GOG's clean interface, and if I'm not mistaken, some of those covers look exactly like the polished GOG covers.

Howd they get system shock?

That "look" is a pretty standard interface style for game collection management software.

Tyrian 2000 and the DOS version of Ultima IV are both freeware. They're legit downloads.

Yeah I checked Ultima IV it's freeware, my mistake. They are just promoting their Mac DOS emulator. Also they do link to Steam and GOG for DOS games.

And the wood shelf pattern is kind of common. I think it's inside Garage Band on the Mac for example. Rights for what? I can't imagine there being restrictions on demos, and Ultima IV has been freeware for years. Edit: Never mind. Delixe corrected himself before me.

Edit 2: I suppose it's worth noting that Boxer is a DOSBox front-end, and is listed in DOSBox's downloads page.

Damn this quoting shenanigans.

Gonna have to bookmark this and try out some of my games on the G5 I got lyin' around.

Actually, both GOG's web designer and the Boxer dev took inspiration for their vanity shelves from Delicious Library. Windows people are so funny.

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That's the way it seems to usually go. Hence my dislike for the way copyright usually works here in the U.S.

It's too bad the guy doesn't have a Windows version.

He'd probably make about ten times as much money if he did.

I love the way it looks, keeping everything organized and looking nice.

But I thought Boxer is free?

EDIT: I take it you are referring to the Delicious Library instead?

Looks really nice and I dont see how they "borrowed" anything so what's the problem?

Or have you forgotten how GOG "borrowed" Apple's "wooden shelf" for their games? :p

I'll unnecessarily add greater detail to what was previous written. :) Boxer's design inspiration actually came from other Mac apps rather than GOG. Boxer makes it easy for you to display custom icons for your DosBox games - originally the dev simply encouraged use of img2icons to create cover art then those icons would look nice displayed on your shelf. The new version allows you to create game icons from images in the app itself. As stated by other posters, the "wooden shelf" motif goes back awhile as a design on OS X programs - for most programs (like Boxer) it's essentially just a decoration on an otherwise normal finder window. The Boxer-guy pretty much stated right out in one of his early dev-posts in 2008 that he's planning on using the "look" from Delicious Library in later (now current) versions. So probably the similarities in the look between GOG and Boxer are more due to co-inspiration from the same source rather than Boxer getting inspiration from GOG.

I like that both GOG and Boxer make my digital collection of games look like a nice library - it feels somehow classier (for lack of a better word) than the standard little game icons. I actually owe my thanks to a GOGer for my discovery of Boxer. Of course all my DosBox games that I run through Boxer come from GOG. :)

As an aside, Boxer is actually a really nice DosBox frontend. I've not upgraded to version 1.0 though, because he removed joystick support which won't be back until version 1.1. As a heads up: I got unplayable performance on the G5 when I tried to use Boxer v0.87 on it, but I didn't really play around with it too much (and I haven't tried the version 1.0 on a G5), so that may just be my bad experience.