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Posted August 10, 2010
Hi all,
I have a couple of PCs that can run the DOS games here in native DOS, i.e. I don't need dosbox.
My question is, how do I go about playing the games from GOG in real DOS?
I can copy the contents of the folder from my XP machine to a win98 PC and run a game in DOS, but what about CD music?
Is there a way of converting the .gog files that contain the .ogg music back into CD Audio?
Any other tips on running the GOG DOS games on a real DOS PC?
Thanks.
Posted August 10, 2010
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fahqfahq: Is there a way of converting the .gog files that contain the .ogg music back into CD Audio?

Fire up a CD/DVD writer software, choose audio cd (this is the important part) then just select all the ogg files you want to write to. If the software cannot recognize ogg, then you have to convert them to mp3 or wav first (preferably wav).
CDBurnerXP - which is a free CD/DVD writer - can natively convert ogg files.
Post edited August 10, 2010 by gyokzoli
Posted August 10, 2010
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fahqfahq: Is there a way of converting the .gog files that contain the .ogg music back into CD Audio?
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gyokzoli: Fire up a CD/DVD writer software, choose audio cd (this is the important part) then just select all the ogg files you want to write to. If the software cannot recognize ogg, then you have to convert them to mp3 or wav first (preferably wav).
CDBurnerXP - which is a free CD/DVD writer - can natively convert ogg files.

Any idea how I can get at the ogg files which are embedded in a large gog file?
Your help is appreciated!
Posted August 10, 2010
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fahqfahq: Any idea how I can get at the ogg files which are embedded in a large gog file?
Your help is appreciated!

Gog file? You mean exe? If this is a self-extracting archive then you can just simply doubleclick on it and it will extract itself. Or is it something else? You can open most archives with the free 7-zip, worth a try.
Posted August 10, 2010
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fahqfahq: Any idea how I can get at the ogg files which are embedded in a large gog file?
Your help is appreciated!
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gyokzoli: Gog file? You mean exe? If this is a self-extracting archive then you can just simply doubleclick on it and it will extract itself. Or is it something else? You can open most archives with the free 7-zip, worth a try.

Ok, from looking through the forum and at the config files for games it seems that there's two files, a cue sheet named for example "name_of_game.inst" which contains the following:
FILE "name_of_game.gog" BINARY
TRACK 01 MODE1/2352
INDEX 01 00:00:00
etc...
Does anyone know how to use the cuesheet information to extract the ogg data from the gog file?
Some games don't have MIDI music so having CD audio would be nice.
Posted August 10, 2010
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gyokzoli: Gog file? You mean exe? If this is a self-extracting archive then you can just simply doubleclick on it and it will extract itself. Or is it something else? You can open most archives with the free 7-zip, worth a try.
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fahqfahq: Ok, from looking through the forum and at the config files for games it seems that there's two files, a cue sheet named for example "name_of_game.inst" which contains the following:
FILE "name_of_game.gog" BINARY
TRACK 01 MODE1/2352
INDEX 01 00:00:00
etc...
Does anyone know how to use the cuesheet information to extract the ogg data from the gog file?
Some games don't have MIDI music so having CD audio would be nice.

Ohh ok, then this gog file looks like a CD image. Try to open the cue sheet with the CD writer software. Or just simply try to open it with 7-zip or the cd writer software.
Posted August 10, 2010
I renamed the files to bin/cue and opened the file with ultraiso, works fine.
Thanks for your help.
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