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Posted October 18, 2012
It's official! GOG.com supports Mac OS X.

We're bringing a part of our massive catalog of all-time classics to Mac, starting with an impressive 50 titles for Mac gamers to play and enjoy. 28 of the 50 titles, the best games in history, including , [url=https://secure.gog.com/en/gamecard/ultima_456]Ultima series, or Wing Commander, will be playable on the Mac OS X for the first time ever--exclusively on GOG.com. The complete line-up reflects the diversity of available games unmatched by other distributors: classics like Simcity 2000, Crusader: No Remorse, Little Big Adventure, Theme Hospital mix with Anomaly Warzone Earth, Tiny & Big: Grandpa’s Leftovers, , and [url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/the_witcher_2]The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. Speaking of monster-hunter Geralt and The Witcher 2, the Enhanced Edition of this award-winning mature fantasy RPG was released on Mac just today and is available on GOG.com with a 25% discount (that's only $22.24) for the next 48 hours.

Weeklong Promo: Mac & PC Essentials
We have also prepared a set of specially selected games from various genres that will be available 50% off for the next week: The Witcher Enhanced Edition, Crusader: No Remorse, Theme Hospital, Little Big Adventure, Postal Classic and Uncut, and Simcity 2000 are all available for 50% off--that's as little as $2.99 for unforgettable classics. This promo ends Thursday, October 25 at 6:15 PM GMT. However, The Witcher Enhanced Edition will be available for 50% off only until Saturday, October 20 at 6:45 PM GMT.

Remember, the 50 is just the beginning--we promise to release more amazing games on Mac in the near future. What titles? To find out and play even more best games in history check our website regularly, become a fan on , follow us on [url=https://twitter.com/GOGcom]Twitter, or give us a nice +1 in Google+.
Posted October 18, 2012
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HiPhish: There is a bunch of conf files but no Crusader. Never mind, I'll just stick with Boxer as before, I'm just baffled that GoG would remove features from Boxer.
It's actually in Resources > [game name].boxer > DOSBox Preferences.conf

But you're right, there are a lot of config files. Look at some of these file names: Tie Fighter.conf, I Have No Mouth.conf. A hint of things to come?
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Posted October 18, 2012
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So Mac is what this all "new OSes" was about...

Yeah... Underwhelming to say the least...
Posted October 18, 2012
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HiPhish: There is a bunch of conf files but no Crusader. Never mind, I'll just stick with Boxer as before, I'm just baffled that GoG would remove features from Boxer.
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Darling_Jimmy: It's actually in Resources > [game name].boxer > DOSBox Preferences.conf But you're right, there are a lot of config files. Look at some of these file names: Tie Fighter.conf, I Have No Mouth.conf. A hint of things to come?
I noticed that too ... probably not, but would be awesome! :)
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Skunk: Desura doesn't have a Macintosh client? I didn't really know whether that was so or not. All the same, they definitely sell Windows, Macintosh, and Linux games. Not sure why you'd want to use the client, anyway. It's still pretty damn clunky and buggy, even on Windows.
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Inuboy1000: The reason I'd rather use the client. It serves as a launcher for the games, as do most clients. However I was never sure if they did sell Mac games, it only says on their website that they were working on a version for Mac (I believe they've been saying that since last year, way too long). LOL Not to mention once they were giving away a game for free, but in order to actually GET the game you had to use the client. Which kind of sucked because I didn't get the game... however I later got that exact same game from the IndieGameStand, so no loss for me I guess.
They sell Mac games
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Posted October 18, 2012
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crazy_dave: probably not, but would be awesome! :)
That would mean LucasArts is signed so heck yes that would be awesome! Come on, blue text. Confirm. :D
Posted October 18, 2012
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imAgi: Talk about anticlimax, the book would have been better, Source code and Annotations;) But no Linux? not even for the developers that already fully support it? with Linux you really could have everything you need to play your GOG games, all on a thumb drive. Still, good news for those fortunate enough to have a Mac, hope they appreciate the work which the Linux community started years ago that make todays announcement possible.
I definitely can tell you that I and a lot of other Mac users definitely recognize at least the hard work that the Linux and F/OSS community have given to Mac gaming through WINE; a lot of paying customers of CrossOver are Mac users, and Codeweavers is an important corporate contributor to WINE support and development.
Posted October 18, 2012
Yikes! Just when I've bought my first Mac. :D
Posted October 18, 2012
Some things:

Can we have a Mac games filter, both on the front page and in the games library?
Surprised there's no Gabriel Knight or Ultima VII Mac versions, even though they both run perfectly well on Mac (in Boxer and Exult, respectively)
Posted October 18, 2012
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HiPhish: There is a bunch of conf files but no Crusader. Never mind, I'll just stick with Boxer as before, I'm just baffled that GoG would remove features from Boxer.
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Darling_Jimmy: It's actually in Resources > [game name].boxer > DOSBox Preferences.conf But you're right, there are a lot of config files. Look at some of these file names: Tie Fighter.conf, I Have No Mouth.conf. A hint of things to come?
As far as I can tell, these are just the conf files included with Boxer, which is what GOG is using to run these games. I wouldn't take them as indiction of future plans (sadly).
Post edited October 18, 2012 by johnLongview
Posted October 18, 2012
I also want to make it abundantly clear that I too am very much happy on behalf of all the GOG.com fans that now get to enjoy some of their favorite games on their favorite platform. This is good news, not bad news. However I was just a bit let down by the conference in that there was no actual change to the way gog.com it self works and it didn't take digital distribution to the next level or however they worded that. The whole Mac thing was basically spoiled before hand.
Posted October 18, 2012
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Xinef: I'm happy for all the Mac users who are delighted with these news, and I'm relieved myself that game versions for different OSes aren't sold separately. So overall I'm not trying to criticize anyone or spread hate or anything like that. I just don't understand why GOG.com won't let us handle the support. Everything apart from support/testing is easy to do and would bring them a lot of our money. So... after all, the only REALLY important thing I have to say is... happy fourth anniversary GOG.com!
I can't speak for the small minority of Mac users here, but crazy_dave has the right idea. This may seem like just a victory for Mac users, but it's also another small but important step for Linux users as well. There's enough shared underlying technology between Mac OS X and common Linux distributions, that at least GOG's DOSBox/Boxer-based collection can be opened up for Linux users; the only hold-up I can imagine right now is with support and getting the legal rights to distribute the games for Linux users.

Let it be said I'm wiling to campaign just as hard for Linux compatibility as the other Linux users on GOG.
Posted October 18, 2012
Applaud the move. Would love to see Linux support too, to be the real cross-platform DRM free shop for all the amazing Kickstarter games to choose as their distribution platform.
Posted October 18, 2012
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fredtoy: It would be great. It's very easy to run GOG.com games that use DOSBox or SCUMMVM on Linux systems. The worst part is running the setup with Wine to have the files extracted. Many Windows games available here run flawlessly on Wine too. It would only be a matter to configure something like PlayOnLinux (http://www.playonlinux.com) to run the games. It already supports many GOG.com games. Anyway, congrats on bringing the easy way of playing old games on another OS.
That annoys me too, but we're in luck. First, there's a tool named "innoextract", developed specifically for unpacking the versions of InnoSetup installers used by GOG without needing Wine and it's in Debian and [url=http://packages.debian.org/sid/innoextract]sid. There's also a who's working on a [url=http://library]library to replicate the GOG Downloader's functionality on Linux.
Post edited October 18, 2012 by ssokolow
Posted October 18, 2012
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GOG goes on Mac the locked. Next move: GOG goes on Steam! lol
Posted October 18, 2012
And another one who doesn't bother doing a five-second Google search, because then he'd find out that OS X is more open than Windows and DRM-free.
Posted October 18, 2012
This is great news. My girlfriend likes some of your library but I've never been able to get her anything because of her OS. Now I can get her an account and gift her something anytime. Thanks so much!
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