That's the thing though: it's not the game executables that they copy-protected. It's DosBox. They decided that they would prevent people from copying games illegally not by copy protecting the game itself, but the completely free, easily obtainable emulator that runs it. Seriously. That is what …

I just tested it out, and you can run the DosBox executables for each game directly - as long as you're logged into steam when you do it. If you try to run them while you're logged out, then it will open Steam's log in box and make you log in first. However, and here the interesting thing, you do …

Seeing as you just verified that your team wasn't contacted, I apologize for suggesting that it was speculation that your team wasn't contacted. I think your team has every right to be upset then. You should probably start discussing about possible future courses of action with your team now though, …

I think it's too bad that people seem determined to see this in a negative light, instead of as an opportunity. I want to reiterate though, that since all this is STILL UNFOLDING, there is a lot of speculation, and very little fact. All that we really know is that id released some games on Steam, …

Whoa there, buddy. This all just happened today - no one knows what happened. All we know is that id released some games on Steam, and those games use DosBox 0.70 with some critical stuff stripped out. Everything else you've brought up is just speculation. And the reason you should do it now is …

I understand the point you are making, but you shouldn't dismiss this opportunity without even looking into it. It may be that Valve would be willing to take care of the porting into Steam, as long as they had your permission to do so. They are making a profit from every game sold on Steam, and they …

You dosbox developers should take advantage of this situation and negotiate with Valve for a full release of dosbox on Steam. Doing this would provide a lot of benefits for everyone: developers would see that they are able to use dosbox to release old games through Steam, there wouldn't be a need …