There's (maybe) hope for you my friend (and all others still using XP) ...

I doubted the absence of XP support so I digged a bit in the game forum and at systemshock.org.
The final ignition to buy and try it myself gave plumsinus' review on page 2 in the System Shock gamecard. He/she wrote:
"Despite what the requirements say, it seems to run fine on my ancient 2 GHz single-core machine with WinXP.
Try it at your own risk though."
Which I did, and so far(!) the enhanced edition runs fine on my XP SP3, 2Ghz, 2 GB RAM ...

But, like plumsinus wrote, I have to repeat: Try at your own risk. I guarantee for nothing.

Thanks for the heads up! I'm using Windows XP with SP3 on a 2 x 3 GHz dual core PC with 2,5 GB RAM. But i guess the enhanced edition won't run thanks to my outdated Intel q965/q963 chipset onboard GPU.
But that's no big deal as i can at least play the classic version and enjoy all the extras so i will grab SS1 soon. :)

cool! thanks for sharing. nice family pic. :)

I'm mostly an acoustic man myself. I do own a mexican fender tele. have had it for 16 years now! my only electric. the rest are acoustics (3 acoustics and one classical). i'll have to get a picture of the kids too sometime soon.

Love SS(1), love GOG, love Nightdive's modus operandi for getting old games rereleased (contentious mod issues nonwithstanding)

Instabuy

edit: just learned it's 'notwithstanding' not 'nonwithstanding' and my entire belief system is crumbling around me

Rampancy give a better answer then me.

Pleased to see this make it here to GOG, AND to not be "abandonware" anymore. Hooray!

Have purchased it even though I own a boxed copy and have the free "portable" version.

I think it's fine for tNight Dive to ask that the "portable" version be no longer made available.

Let's remember the reason that version existed - because SS1 was "abandonware" is the reason why. Now that it no longer is - it's very fair to ask that it be made unavailable. Mods aren't being taken down - just a no-longer-necessary free version.

[edit]: typo

to be fair they only asked that portable no longer have the actual game included, it's just the guy behind portable was being a diva and decided to just yank the thing because how dare someone who owns the property dare ask to make money off something they own.

if i'm not mistaken, then its only, not mostly. greed dive didn't pay for any patch, workaround or enchancement.

Source for that? HiPhish already said that ND worked with the modder who created the loader to make the enhanced edition, and I don't think I've seen the contract they signed floating around.

i find your post is made up of arrogance and ignorance.
no i don't have a source, but we have kolya's reaction about the removal. and i find that it speaks a clear language.

And I should add, we likely won't see it since the contract (if any existed) detailing the payment made by NDS (if they made any) would likely be covered under some form of NDA. And besides, is it really our business to know how much someone got paid for a job they did?

if you like it, fine. then its fair for you. don't intend to go on about this. i have posted enough to bring an another perspective to this "happy" occurence. there is enough on the web and i've linked already to kolya's response.

sure, its the same over and over again. as long as you can't proof how they went through hell, i say greed dive went through all the effort my ass!

again the same putative higher minded stuff which leads to nothing, proofs nothing and explains nothing. how about a property shark who buys a real estate and throws poor families out of their homes to rise the value, driven by pure greed.

i've linked this e-mail in my first post in this thread. so i'm aware of it.

Cool streaming session GOG (though I do prefer watching the developer(s) play the game)!

We also have Larry's direct email, too: NDS wasn't seeking to suppress the mod; quite the contrary in fact. All they wanted was for them to not distribute the base game for free from their website. In no way do they say that they wanted them to stop work on the mod, or stop distribution of the mod. If Kolya has indeed pulled the mod in its entirety, then that's on him, not on NDS. And since we're on the topic of Kolya's response: You're kidding me, right? If that's the really the case, then why did Warren Spector and Looking Glass decide to fully market and sell System Shock and its successor (as well as their other games such as the Thief series) as traditional retail products? Why didn't they just release the game as open source or freeware on BBS or Usenet? Why did Looking Glass decide to pursue a deal with EA? Basically a rehash of the old "GOG is just a greedy company making money off of abandonware!" argument. Which is just silly at this point. If you really did care about making sure that the people responsible for System Shock got paid for their work, then you would have figured out some way to arrange some form of reasonable and fair payment in exchange for the distribution of their game. So how much money did you give the original development team? Did you go to the effort to seek them out? Did you buy any/all of the later games that they all worked on? (Fully realizing that even then only a fraction of the money you paid would even go to the developers in question?) Ironic, as they've essentially been leeches themselves by deriving value from something they didn't pay for (in the case of people who didn't have an earlier legal retail copy of the game, and I'd be willing to bet that there was a sizeable majority of people playing/downloading/modding the game who never paid for a full retail copy).

What's the game recommended by Paul Neurath called?