If you download the game rom's Iso from a dedicated emulation site, get yourself a highly rated PS1 emulator and download the bios, calibrate the plugins and optimize the settings manually, well, technically, you should have Blood Omen "available for PC"...

I would love to buy it as a normal game, though, especially on GOG, doubly so when they tweak it well enough to run on modern systems.

Okay. I was referring to the most comments I've seen asking for specifics games, and many of them have been for Bethesda/id games not yet here.

If you download GOG games from torrent site, well, technically, you should have complete GOG catalogue "available for free".

As I remember there's a fan-made patch around which fixes all the problems which the PC version of Blood Omen has, in particular it re-encodes the movie files to a different format which makes them work on modern systems. I don't seem to have the bookmark of the site anymore... but I believe it was a russian site

EDIT: Here it is: http://www.nosgothica.org/index.php?id=files_eng

Not all. As I mentioned above, the popups (such as road signs) do not display properly with these patches, at least on my system. Also the frame rate the game gets locked at with these patches isn't the correct one, apparently (the PSX runs much more quickly).

1) GoG doesn't have (or any other service) Blood Omen 1 for sell. Due to copyrights.
2) You confused something here. I said EMULATOR + ROM. I never said anything about torrent.
3) You can't read? PS1 i said, not PC. Emulator OF PS1 FOR PC!
4) I didn't say pirate, torrent or anything of sort. Where have you been, in which cave? Haven't you heard about emulation, emulators, roms...? Anything? 15 years ago when it started happening, all old gamers were shedding tears of joy!
5) Please, make a small effort to actually READ that to which you are replying.

I have Blood Omen PC running on two of my PCs, on my old Windows XP desktop, as well as my work laptop (Windows 7). I don't recall exactly what 3rd party fixes I applied to either installation, but both seem to work fine as far as I can tell (not sure about the post sign pop up problem that someone mentioned).

I've played it somewhat on the XP machine, but I got distracted. I don't quite understand everything about the game (I seem to get items I am not sure what they're for), and I kinda dislike how the areas sometimes branch out, and I am unsure which is the main path and which a side path, and if I will miss some goodies or something if I continue with the main path without searching the other paths first.

So far the game seems... ok... So far it hasn't hooked me though.

I haven't tried the Playstation version, is it significantly different from the PC version, or same same? Same question about Darklight Conflict, if anyone knows. :)

It has a Zelda / Metroidvania structure. Not only can you always revisit earlier locations, with the abilities you obtain later on you can reach new places from already visited locations (you probably have to do that several times although I'm not positive since it's been more than ten years since I beat the game). Like in many games of this kind there is a point of no return later on but it's quite obvious.

I didn't get hooked the first or second time I tried it either but one day I really got into the story and spent several weeks only playing this game until I beat it, exploring almost every inch of the game world (and still missing a few spots - I actually did not have all the spells described in the manual).

As far as I know it's identical, the PSX version just has higher quality cutscenes without scanlines (which you can get with one of the community patches for the PC version anyway). Other than that it just runs a little more quickly than the patched PC version but has noticeable load times.

Having now played the game a bit on two different Windows 7 laptops:

NVidia Geforce GTX 670M GPU: I get that same issue you described.

Intel HD 4000 GPU: No issue with this, I see the road sign pop-ups fine.

There is another minor visual glitch with Intel that I don't see on the Geforce, namely in the menus the mouse pointer causes some flickering across the screen, as if there are several mouse pointers side by side. It's not a biggie though, you can still easily tell which is the actual mouse pointer.

Also for some reason the graphics are stretched to 16:9 widescreen on the Intel HD (4:3 with black bars on the sides on the Geforce, ie. the correct aspect ratio), but maybe this can be changed somewhere in the driver's settings. Then again I think in other 4:3 games I do get the correct aspect ratio...

Other than those, they seem identical. Maybe I'll play it on that Intel HD 4000 then, just to see those signposts, albeit so far they usually don't seem to have anything really important.