My prediction: GOG will become exclusive publisher of "The Bard: Saviors of Queens" to be developed by CD Projekt.

Isn't that the truth? Weeks of hype will lead to something about as important as announcing GOGMixes. Huzzah? :)

"The effort that goes into making old games run on new machines and the amount of flak we get from people who can't get the games to run on their machines has simply gotten to be too much. So instead of sticking with what we have become known for everywhere online, we're going to just focus on DRM-free new games and leave that other stuff in the nursing home. Today's special releases: EA's Syndicate (2012), Amnesia: The Dark Descent, and Bejeweled 3, all DRM-free! All DLC 50% off, too, for the next 3 hours."

http://i.imgur.com/XNhfI.gif

Nice. Looks interesting.
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Keep for me a sit just next to you...We will 'booooo' together every time game 2K+ will be annouced :-P

Althought I keep my fingers crossed (and wallet ready) for the next wave of EA classics - I don't think there will be anything really cool about classics this time.

Ha ha. ;) (We'll see if I have access to a computer or streaming media when this happens; I may have to get the "play-by-play" from a forum member.) I guess last week got me a little crotchety. I mean, 2000-2004-ish I can handle, but just a 2008 game? I was disappoint on Thursday with Blitzkrieg 2 and nothing older.

I'd love to see something about EA classics too for sure, but release of the expansions for current games is quite important to me, too.

That sounds the most probable of the actually remarkable changes.

However, what I'd really like it to be would be some kind of emulator or virtual machine for running older GOG Windows games hardware-independently, a bit like DOSBox. Some people are already working on getting Win9x (and Win9x games) to run inside DOSBox.

If it needs real Windows (files) to run, that may not be quite feasible due to Microsoft. Unless it would be something like WINE?

Wine would certainly work... just as soon as someone manages to get in running on Windows.

Reinventing the wheel just to have a new piece of software to do the same thing (especially such an advanced piece of software) is hardly feasible, better to build on the base that's already there.

Yes, the only thing I'm excited for, are the upcoming new releases they are planning to announce. I hope they are getting in some of the newer games, DRM-free, but that might be a little wishful.

I already did... sort of. :)

http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/icewind_dale_vistax64_compatibility/post137

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwamV1fbYQk

I thought this was about the Quest for Glory kickstarter. But then I realised that is October 19...

I'm prepared to be underwhelmed again. I'd love to be proven wrong though.

There are actually quite a few projects that could contribute to establishing a full Win9x-compatible environment. DOSBox and WINE are just two - Bochs and ReactOS could also offer a few interesting things.

Part of the problem with DOSBox is that the DOSBox authors seem extremely resistant to the idea of running Windows 95 or 98 in DOSBox, constantly seeing the need to remind people that it wasn't designed for that although it is more or less in keeping with what DOSBox was designed for - running old games.

WINE could be interesting though if the actual execution could be modified to run on a virtual machine à la Java with a fully emulated processor as opposed to the native hardware.