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Title: Good Old Games
Post by: david656 on October 17, 2009, 11:54:14 am

I have just come across a website that is selling older games via internet download. http://www.gog.com/en/frontpage/ (http://www.gog.com/en/frontpage/)

I have always been a fan of stonekeep and already own it twice, but whilst in a charity shop earlier saw the 'big box' version and couldn't resist buying it for £1.99! i was quite surprised to open it and find the stonekeep CD+case, as well as another stonekeep CD+case! so i own it 4 times now!

What has thrown me is i use DOSbox to play this game, however that website states it is compatible with XP and vista out of the box for 32bit and 64bit! Seeing as it is a 16bit MS-DOS (with a basic win95 support) how is this possible.     http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/stonekeep (http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/stonekeep)

interested to see if anyone has used their site etc.

Title: Re: Good Old Games
Post by: J_K_M_A_N on October 17, 2009, 12:18:43 pm

I have that game and the player guide. I haven't tried to run it in a long time though. I know I used to run it with a dos box type deal. It was not easy to get running. Fun game though. I never made it all the way through. I may have to dig it out again.

J_K_M_A_N

Title: Re: Good Old Games
Post by: Samstag on October 17, 2009, 09:58:06 pm

The old stuff usually runs in DOSBox.  They set it all up so it'll work flawlessly on pretty much any windows machine.  I've bought 4 or 5 games from them and they all run great in XP/Vista/7 for me.

I definitely recommend GOG.