Sorry if I'm posting this in the wrong forum section.

Could we see the Wizardry series coming to GOG anytime soon?

I see Ultima 1 - 7 is on here for sale

I realize I stll own all the original Wizardry discs but it's near impossible to install and run on Windows 7 64-bit

Thanks!

Wizardry is owned by some Japanese company I believe, so we'll probably never see them.

/me stomps on your dreams.

Hmm? Would it not be possible to run your discs with DOSBox?

This, pretty much. I'd like to see them here though, hopefully it can happen somehow.

http://captainsubtle.com/articles/creating-a-virtual-floppy-drive-on-windows-7-x64.html

Use D-Fend Reloaded to create an image of your floppy and mount it as such within DOSbox. You don't actually need DFR to mount the floppy (you can do that in dosbox.conf), but it's a lot less hassle to create the image.

If you have an aband*cough*re version of the game, you can mount the folder with the game files as a floppy using DFR or in dosbox.conf.

Works for me. If I remember correctly, that's how the Ultimate Wizardry Archives CD did it. I'll have to dig it out at some point and have a look.

Sticky threads. Go.

The same thing was said about EA and Activision years ago, and I still don't see pigs flying.

Beside, they're making new games. They don't repackage the old ones anymore.

The issue isn't with mounting the game files, those are on the hard drive already. The issue is with the game refusing to save or load savegames to a destination that isn't a floppy drive. Mounting a normal folder and setting it as the A:\ drive just causes it to freeze. For some reason, the game wants an ACTUAL (or virtual) floppy drive for saving and loading, and it can tell the difference between mounted images and "real" drives.

Dosbox doesn't mount drives the way the game wants it to, and D-fend is just a graphical UI for Dosbox, so I doubt it would do any different.Yeah, that's the guide I used to get it working on my Win 7 machine. But it's still a hassle, and the DSEO program is essentially just making the computer run in Test Mode anyway. It works, but it's a "dirty" solution.

Doesn't GOG deal with the Japanese? Why does this make the series unlikely to be sold here?

Japanese companies in general are very wary of DD as a concept. Not all of them, of course, but as a general rule it's a lot more difficult to get them to agree to release them digitally. Only the largest companies have even experimented with it so far. I'm sure they'll join in eventually, but it may take a while.

That's strange because they used the concept back at the time of the NES (with an add-on for the Famicom (Japanese NES)). And seeing how Sony is generous on the Playstation Network, I don't think it would be too much of a strech to see the Wizardry games on GOG.