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Posted May 07, 2018
Join the multiplayer, win an autographed copy, play the games at 25% off

Time, huh? If you're anything like us, growing up a PC gamer in the 90s, there's no doubt that Epic's Jazz Jackrabbit and his hare-brained hijinks were a pretty big part of your childhood.





And now, it's been twenty years since Jazz Jackrabbit 2!

We've teamed up with Epic and Jazz2Online – the oldest and undying Jazz community out there – to celebrate 20 years of bun-on-turtle platforming action.
This is a neat excuse to grab Jazz Jackrabbit and Jazz Jackrabbit 2 at 25% off this week, the biggest discount so far!
We'd love to have you for this week's big Jazz Jackrabbit 2: Birthday Hullabaloo: a non-stop multiplayer bash revisiting over 500 of the awesomest home-cooked maps from the past two decades.



You can also win a physical jewel-case copy of Jazz Jackrabbit 2, just like the old days, autographed by one of the founding fathers of Jazz. Details here!





Join us at Jazz2Online to see more of Jazz Jackrabbit 2's 20-year history, the giveaway, and a how-to join the Birthday Hullabaloo.

The Jazz Jackrabbit series discount will last until Monday, May 14, 10 PM UTC.
Posted May 09, 2018
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gregoryopera: I don't know why they didn't to begin with; why port the first game and not the second?
I'm not exactly sure why, but I wouldn't be surprised if it has something to do with the fact that the first game is native to DOS, but the second game is native to Windows.
Posted May 09, 2018
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gregoryopera: Yeah. but that's still not an "official" port for Linux-based operating systems... When GOG.com port Jazz Jackrabbit 2 to Linux-based operating systems (as they did with the first game), I'll buy it...

I don't know why they didn't to begin with; why port the first game and not the second?
As finkleroy pointed out, the first game isn't a native port either & uses a DOSBox wrapper. GOG wouldn't be able to make a native port - as well as getting permission from the publisher/developer they'd need access to the source code and a programmer with the relevant skill & experience to create the port. The most GOG could do for JJ2 is release a Wine wrapper for it as I've done.
Posted May 12, 2018
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adamhm: As finkleroy pointed out, the first game isn't a native port either & uses a DOSBox wrapper. GOG wouldn't be able to make a native port - as well as getting permission from the publisher/developer they'd need access to the source code and a programmer with the relevant skill & experience to create the port. The most GOG could do for JJ2 is release a Wine wrapper for it as I've done.
I meant native as in a DOSBox/WINE wrapper, not native-native (which as far as I am aware, GOG.com doesn't usually do anyway)... And this shouldn't be too hard, seeing as GOG.com have done this with plenty of other games in the past.
Posted May 12, 2018
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gregoryopera: seeing as GOG.com have done this with plenty of other games in the past.
GOG has almost never released Wine games for Linux. The exceptions only serve to reinforce the rule.
Posted May 12, 2018
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timmy010: only problem i have is it is probably dos. and i have had bad experiences with gog's dosboxes. so i'm out
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finkleroy: GOG recently replaced DOSBox with ScummVM for most, if not all, DOS games.
Unlikely, considering ScummVM's support (for different games) is still quite limited, while DOSBox basically supports all MS-DOS games.

But yes, GOG has changed many (not most) games to use ScummVM. This includes both some MS-DOS games as well as native Windows games. Especially with many Windows games it makes sense as trying to use run them natively on modern Windows can be problematic, while through ScummVM they work fine, like some of the Myst series games I believe.

With MS-DOS games the benefit isn't quite similar as DOSBox does very good job running MS-DOS games already.

Here is apparently a full list of games that ScummVM supports. Currently 234 games if I understood right.

[url=http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Category:Supported_Games]http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Category:Supported_Games[/url]

EDIT: Apparently GOG forum is now broken for showing URLs...
Post edited May 12, 2018 by timppu
Posted May 13, 2018
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gregoryopera: seeing as GOG.com have done this with plenty of other games in the past.
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Grargar: GOG has almost never released Wine games for Linux. The exceptions only serve to reinforce the rule.
Well there's a first time for everything...
Posted May 13, 2018
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gregoryopera: Well there's a first time for everything...
Just don't be disappointed if the first time never comes.
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