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2 excellent indies and 8 classic titles join GOG.com Mac catalog!

Mac gamers! We've prepared another set of games for you today. GOG.com is now offering almost 100 Mac titles! As for today's additions, we've got some RPGs, some strategies, a point-and-click adventure, an FPS, and even a space fighter combat sim. Most of today's additions are classic titles, but we also have two indies, that should appeal to old-school gamers nonetheless. Let's have a quick look at the new arrivals, shall we?

Starting with the indies, Legend of Grimrock is one of the last year's most celebrated independent games, briliantly reprising the classic dungeon crawler gameplay in modern visual style. The game comes with an intuitive built-in Dungeon Editor. Only $14.99.

Blackwell Bundle is a collection of four old-school point-and-click supernatural investigative adventures, complete with hand-drawn graphics and top-notch voice acting. A must have for adventure gamers longing for a new story to unravel. Only $14.99.

Moving to the classics, Alpha Centauri serves as a great spin-off of the legendary Civilization series, in a refreshing Sci-Fi setting. The game now comes with a very rare addition, the Alien Crossfire expansion. Only $5.99.

Fallout 2, the larger and even more open-ended sequel to Black Isle's smash-hit RPG will have you exploring the nuclear wasteland, potentially for hundreds of hours. If you're an RPG fan, this game is an obligatory addition to your collection. Only $9.99.

Sid Meier's Colonization, the classic turn-based strategy game of conquest and management, lets you play either the French, English, Dutch, or Spanish colonial powers, each with distinct characteristics and political situations. Only $5.99

Postal 2 Complete, the legendary sandbox of sadistic stunts and mindless mayhem witn no political corectness, comes in a form of gory FPS that will have your soul twitching and your mind screaming. Comes packed with the Apocalypse Weekend and Share the Pain expansions, for only $9.99.

Ultima 7: The Complete Edition includes The Black Gate, Forge of Virtue, Ultima 7 Part Two: Serpent Isle, and The Silver Seed, so you can expect many, many hours of masterfully crafted classic isometric fantasy RPG experience. Only $5.99.

Freespace (+Expansion), the cult space combat sim that casts you as a s a pilot for the Galactic Terran Alliance in the war with the ominous alien Shivans. This edition includes the original Freespace and the Silent Threat mission pack. Only $5.99.

Terminal Velocity is an action-packed fast-paced interplanetary fighter sim straight from the depths of 1990s. Check out the 3D Realms classic for only $5.99.

Conquest of the New World, a historical turn-based strategy title that puts you in control of a native civilization or an expeditionary force from one of five European countries. Complete with the Deluxe Edition features, such as the scenario editor. Only $5.99.

That's it for our January Mac selection. We hope you enjoy it. As you surely know by now, we're continuing our work to bring more titles to your Apple computers. For example, the Mac version of Geneforge 1-5, an RPG series for die-hard fans of the genre: hundreds of hours of gameplay, and unique setting, is coming out next Tuesday. Expect even more good news from GOG.com quite soon.
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dirtyharry50: Too bad about the joystick issue with Freespace. I guess I will still be playing that one within a Parallels WinXP virtual machine then. I must have the joystick for a space sim game.

I imagine this means a gamepad would not work either, right?

I probably should just do the work to install FSOpen but when I looked over the instructions for a OS X install of that I became confused and my head began to hurt so I put it off for maybe/someday.
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crazy_dave: nope, gamepad won't work either

Actually getting FSO to work is not so bad - it just looks worse than it is (admittedly not as easy as the days when Turey's automated installer was working which is when I first downloaded FSO - I believe they are working on a new installer though). Part of the complication is that you have to install GOG's FS2 on your mac using wine first then move the game out of the wineskin. After that it is just downloading items one at a time and placing it in your Freespace 2 folder: download the Freespace app (build 3.6.14 is the most recent one), wxlauncher (the thing you use to launch the game), move some cutscene files around a bit, download the 3.6.12 media_vps (hi_res graphics), et whoa-la! In the launcher, you select the app (3.6.14) and the mod (media_vps) and you're playing a hi-res, native Mac version of FS2. To play FS1, download the FSport mod and in the launcher select FSport-mediavps as the mod you want to play. I had some trouble with the cutscenes for the 'ancients', but those were easily solved by replacing the cinematics FSport came with, with the GOG FS1 versions (different video encodings).
Cool. That sounds so much simpler when you explain it. lol

I will give this a try at some point. It would be nice to have hi-res graphical goodness as well as a native OS X version.
Post edited January 27, 2013 by dirtyharry50
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crazy_dave: nope, gamepad won't work either

Actually getting FSO to work is not so bad - it just looks worse than it is (admittedly not as easy as the days when Turey's automated installer was working which is when I first downloaded FSO - I believe they are working on a new installer though). Part of the complication is that you have to install GOG's FS2 on your mac using wine first then move the game out of the wineskin. After that it is just downloading items one at a time and placing it in your Freespace 2 folder: download the Freespace app (build 3.6.14 is the most recent one), wxlauncher (the thing you use to launch the game), move some cutscene files around a bit, download the 3.6.12 media_vps (hi_res graphics), et whoa-la! In the launcher, you select the app (3.6.14) and the mod (media_vps) and you're playing a hi-res, native Mac version of FS2. To play FS1, download the FSport mod and in the launcher select FSport-mediavps as the mod you want to play. I had some trouble with the cutscenes for the 'ancients', but those were easily solved by replacing the cinematics FSport came with, with the GOG FS1 versions (different video encodings).
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dirtyharry50: Cool. That sounds so much simpler when you explain it. lol

I will give this a try at some point. It would be nice to have hi-res graphical goodness as well as a native OS X version.
If you have any trouble, post in the GOG Freespace forum, I (or someone there) will be happy to help. If you have any real, real trouble, there's the hard-light forums.
Post edited January 27, 2013 by crazy_dave
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dirtyharry50: Cool. That sounds so much simpler when you explain it. lol

I will give this a try at some point. It would be nice to have hi-res graphical goodness as well as a native OS X version.
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crazy_dave: If you have any trouble, post in the GOG Freespace forum, I (or someone there) will be happy to help. If you have any real, real trouble, there's the hard-light forums.
Awesome. Thanks very much!
I am really curious, why GOG's choice is Wine instead of FSopen (where everything works pretty well)? Licencing issues?
Well GOG, I officially love you. I loved you before, but now, with Mac support for some of my all time favourites this week, I love you even more. Well done!
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cyboff: I am really curious, why GOG's choice is Wine instead of FSopen (where everything works pretty well)? Licencing issues?
I imagine it's because FSOpen is a complete open source overhaul of the engine whereas sticking the game in Wine allows the game to play as it would've done originally. Usually GOG is reticent to even add fan patches (though does do it occasionally) never mind complete open source overhauls. Licensing issues may also be part of it.
Post edited January 28, 2013 by crazy_dave
GOG team,

Thank you so much for porting these games over to the Mac. As a mac user, I've long since bemoaned the fact that games like Alpha Centauri and Fallout 2 were never going to be able to be played. But you've made my dreams come true.

Now if you can only get Planescape: Torment...
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Zalrus9: Now if you can only get Planescape: Torment...
You can buy windows version here on GOG and then just download wine wrapper to play it on mac from here:
http://paulthetall.com/page39/page535/page626/index.html

(Instructions are on that page, it is very easy....)