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Posted February 02, 2013
I'm impressed with the amount of Mac games, but it would be fantastic if Gog could create some Mac installers for other DosBox games, such as Gabriel Knight 2, etc. All of the DosBox titles should run on OSX.
Posted February 02, 2013
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andrew84uk: I'm impressed with the amount of Mac games, but it would be fantastic if Gog could create some Mac installers for other DosBox games, such as Gabriel Knight 2, etc. All of the DosBox titles should run on OSX.
I'm sure they're working on it right now. We have new batch of MAC titles every month :)
Posted February 02, 2013
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andrew84uk: I'm impressed with the amount of Mac games, but it would be fantastic if Gog could create some Mac installers for other DosBox games, such as Gabriel Knight 2, etc. All of the DosBox titles should run on OSX.
The thing is GOG has no decision on what games get a MAC release or not that is up to whoever owns the games, since GOG has to acquire a whole new licence for said game which depending on who owns it may take awhile.
Posted February 02, 2013
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andrew84uk: I'm impressed with the amount of Mac games, but it would be fantastic if Gog could create some Mac installers for other DosBox games, such as Gabriel Knight 2, etc. All of the DosBox titles should run on OSX.
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DCT: The thing is GOG has no decision on what games get a MAC release or not that is up to whoever owns the games, since GOG has to acquire a whole new licence for said game which depending on who owns it may take awhile.
I don't think that is actually correct in the case of games GOG sets up with DOSBox or WINE. They are selling the same game to everyone, only their installer and what they add to it differs. I might be wrong there but I don't think so. I can understand how this would not be the case for a native Mac title since that is actually a different release from the publisher.

I'm sure many more games are going to release in the coming months this year and beyond. It is pretty good actually that they are getting 10 out at a time considering the work involved. They have to setup and test the games with Boxer or WINE and they do this on a variety of Macs with multiple versions of OS X. Then they have to create the actual installers and test those too. Lastly they have to update the store pages and the shelf pages and set them up to be purchasable and downloadable. So it all takes some time. They are doing a great job with this so far.

Personally, I am really looking forward to seeing all the Might and Magic and Heroes of Might and Magic games released for Mac as well as many more but I'd love to see those sometime soon. The Infinity Engine games setup to run with WINE would be very sweet too but I'm not sure how well those work or if that will actually happen. It would be nice though if possible.
Posted February 02, 2013
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DCT: The thing is GOG has no decision on what games get a MAC release or not that is up to whoever owns the games, since GOG has to acquire a whole new licence for said game which depending on who owns it may take awhile.
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dirtyharry50: I don't think that is actually correct in the case of games GOG sets up with DOSBox or WINE. They are selling the same game to everyone, only their installer and what they add to it differs. I might be wrong there but I don't think so. I can understand how this would not be the case for a native Mac title since that is actually a different release from the publisher.

I'm sure many more games are going to release in the coming months this year and beyond. It is pretty good actually that they are getting 10 out at a time considering the work involved. They have to setup and test the games with Boxer or WINE and they do this on a variety of Macs with multiple versions of OS X. Then they have to create the actual installers and test those too. Lastly they have to update the store pages and the shelf pages and set them up to be purchasable and downloadable. So it all takes some time. They are doing a great job with this so far.

Personally, I am really looking forward to seeing all the Might and Magic and Heroes of Might and Magic games released for Mac as well as many more but I'd love to see those sometime soon. The Infinity Engine games setup to run with WINE would be very sweet too but I'm not sure how well those work or if that will actually happen. It would be nice though if possible.
I'm going based on what they said on their Youtube when someone asked why certain games that run in DOS aren't released for the MAC.
Post edited February 02, 2013 by DCT
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