I only have a few Steam games that use DOSBox, like Doom for example. Yes it's the same, it just mounts a folder as C, so just copy and paste the folder onto your retro PC 😀

Same goes for the Space Quest and King's Quest collections. I think that's about all the Steam DOS games I have though.

Sweet. Thanks!

Other games distributed on Steam are copies of GoG ones (including those pesky .gog ISO files). So keep those instructions for GoG games at hand.

I wish GOG carried 1942:PAW. There's something about Steam that just rubs me the wrong way. I might just spend a little more money and get real media off of ebay.

clueless1 wrote:

I wish GOG carried 1942:PAW. There's something about Steam that just rubs me the wrong way. I might just spend a little more money and get real media off of ebay.

Absolutely. At least with the DOS games, you don't need Steam 😀

Just copy the files and you are DRM free.

Might have to go the Steam route. Only $7 on there compared to $15 for a bare CD off of ebay and $30-$50 for a boxed copy. Of course, there is no guarantee the Steam version will work in real DOS.

clueless1 wrote:

Might have to go the Steam route. Only $7 on there compared to $15 for a bare CD off of ebay and $30-$50 for a boxed copy. Of course, there is no guarantee the Steam version will work in real DOS.

Check the forums for clues.

I actually bought the Gold cdrom edition of this back in the 90's, and aside from the box still have everything.
I really don't see what all the fuss is about, if You owned it and genuinely lost the media, what's the problem with
downloading it again.
The only game I remember Losing the cd of was Pinball Fantasies. Any others I probably threw out, which is a
different matter of course as far as re-acquiring is concerned.

I'm not making any fuss. 😀 Just asking a question.

I'd rather re-buy (if the price is reasonable) than download a possibly corrupt/modified abandonware version, but I'm not opposed to doing so if it's my only option that won't cost an arm and a leg. It's not even a game I ever played much, but finding the manual brought back enough nostalgic memories that I'd like to give it another go, for old time's sake.

The "Fuss" 😀 comment wasn't aimed at anyone here, just the fact that the subject of downloading/piracy etc can
cause a lot of it on forums, sometimes justified, sometimes not.

If You can find a copy of an original unmolested ISO somewhere, go for it.

Origin/EA also uses modified DosBox for their Dos games.
Their modified dosbox.exe would detect the activation status of origin client app, and starts the client app if it wasn't activated.
But... EA only pointed to original dosbox source and not the modfied dosbox source to give apperance that they're compliant to the GPL2 licensing term, somehow.

Playing a single player dos games that requires internet connection feels weird for me.
So i just replace the EA dosbox version with whichever versions of dosbox that i feel better for the game.

Joey_sw wrote:

Their modified dosbox.exe would detect the activation status of origin client app, and starts the client app if it wasn't activated.
But... EA only pointed to original dosbox source and not the modfied dosbox source to give apperance that they're compliant to the GPL2 licensing term, somehow.

Good old EA...

I understand the version used with Wasteland is heavily modified to permit display of the texts you'd normally have to look up separately.