Posted April 11, 2013
I would be interested in buying Betrayal at Krondor and certain other games if I could download the original DOS versions (with bugfix patches applied, of course).
The reason for this is that it's easier to emulate DOS than Windows on machines that aren't running Windows natively. A Wine (Windows emulator) instance doing just about anything is fairly resource intensive, especially compared to DOSbox or something similar, and it's an unnecessary step to emulate Windows just to run a repackaged DOS application.
It would be fairly easy to do this, I think, since these are the files GOG is brewing its Windows version from. If it were an option to simply download those instead of the Windows installer, surely at least a few people other than me would appreciate it.
The reason for this is that it's easier to emulate DOS than Windows on machines that aren't running Windows natively. A Wine (Windows emulator) instance doing just about anything is fairly resource intensive, especially compared to DOSbox or something similar, and it's an unnecessary step to emulate Windows just to run a repackaged DOS application.
It would be fairly easy to do this, I think, since these are the files GOG is brewing its Windows version from. If it were an option to simply download those instead of the Windows installer, surely at least a few people other than me would appreciate it.
