http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/article/466402/gog_com_challenges_retro_pc_gaming/
A new interview is up, offering some insight into GOG's work on making old games playable again. Sorry if this was already posted somewhere.

http://www.ausgamers.com/features/read/3323745
Edit: And another interview about DRM. Ninja'd by GOG on Twitter.

Makes me wonder if a "WindowsBox" will ever get developed, to emulate games running in early versions of Windows.

"TL: The people who work at GOG are gamers and old-school ones at that. More than a few of us have more than a thousand retail games in our collection. A fun fact is that every copy of Alpha Centauri, Magic Carpet, and Dungeon Keeper that GOG sells is based on copies of the CDs that I brought with me to Poland when I moved out here."

Fancy that! I'm a bit surprised that people who hold the rights to something don't even have one copy of the thing. I suppose I shouldn't be though. I'm glad GOG team have such a wide variety of games in their personal collections.

Thank you for this! As a fan of the Good Old portion of GOG, it makes me happy to hear that they are still willing to promote GOG in that manner. :)

So, all we need in order to know what future releases of old games GOG is after, is to:
1. Get a detailed list of their personal collections.
2. Track down what used retail boxes they buy on the Internet.
3. Identify the GOG community members that offered their own retail version and which one those were.

Simple, isn't it?

You guys don't actually believe that do you? No matter how huge a retro collection some of the GOG guys have, I doubt they have everything. They probably have got some from abandonware sites, after they got the rights from the publisher.

He never said they had everything just a lot of old games. He said they also use eBay and even GOG customers to find old games.

Such sites will rarely have the unaltered game discs which is what GOG would want to start from for best results.

Very nice interviews: We can be proud to support GOG!

GOG is not based in Cyprus...

ReactOS is designed after XP though isn't it? I don't think any XP-based games on GOG have problems, it's the 95/98 and earlier which are the worst.

It's possible to install a copy of Windows 3.x inside DOSBox, and then run that game through a shortcut inside the 3.x desktop (works for Journeyman Project 1 and Shivers) but that wouldn't technically be legal unless Windows gave permission.
Tax evasion :P

This is almost at the level of emulating an emulator

"AusGamers: To Ubisoft’s credit, they released a couple of their more contemporary (albeit not new release) titles on GOG early last year, but none since. Can we expect more titles of that calibre from major publishers on GOG in the near future?

GOG.com: Yes. ;) "
YES, YES, YES!!!
Hoping for Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Dragon Age: Ultimate!

I don't know about those two games, lets not get out hopes up about specific games. But that quote is the best news in GOG's history. That is the direction I want GOG to head in to the extent humanly possible.