I just checked and not all versions archived.

For instance, let's take deus ex. Here we can see it supported XP (2016)
https://web.archive.org/web/20160411155337/ht … om/game/deus_ex

But the archived versions only go back as far as 2019

10: Version 1.112fm(Revision 1.6.1.0) - 2021-03-03T14:42:23+0000 (Gen 2) (Build id: 54183086456810330)
21: Version 1.112fm(Revision 1.6.0.0) - 2020-11-17T16:01:24+0000 (Gen 2) (Build id: 53875944507521917)
32: Version 1.112fm(Revision 1.5.0.0) - 2020-01-09T12:23:02+0000 (Gen 2) (Build id: 52968090535826348)
43: Version 1.112fm (Revision 1.4.0.2) nGlide fix - 2019-11-21T08:06:44+0000 (Gen 2) (Build id: 52825525431736346)
54: Version 1.112fm(Revision 1.4.0.2) - 2019-01-15T10:36:55+0000 (Gen 2) (Build id: 51927099871058007

Getting downloads for the older versions will require some lobbying.

I think they should at least offer the original disk images. That wouldn't be hard for them.

First I thought buying on GOG was the only alternative for online-retro.gaming.
But gog tend to have the same issues as Apple-MAS, Steam and other online-services.
You have to have to upgrade the machine you are playing with. For me as a retro-gamer a NO-GO!
I tend to play OLD-GAMES on OLD-MACHINES. Because you can never rely on the infos they post on their pages, I stoped buying their stuff.
I went back to original CD/DVD with No-CD/DVD.

dr.zeissler wrote on 2025-08-20, 09:35:

First I thought buying on GOG was the only alternative for online-retro.gaming. But gog tend to have the same issues as Apple-MA […]
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First I thought buying on GOG was the only alternative for online-retro.gaming.
But gog tend to have the same issues as Apple-MAS, Steam and other online-services.
You have to have to upgrade the machine you are playing with. For me as a retro-gamer a NO-GO!
I tend to play OLD-GAMES on OLD-MACHINES. Because you can never rely on the infos they post on their pages, I stoped buying their stuff.
I went back to original CD/DVD with No-CD/DVD.

It's just a matter of expectations. GOG was never about preserving old games for old systems. It was about preserving old games on new systems.

Yes that is true, but they should keep those installers/games that were sold/promoted as winXP kompatible.

I've been looking into this for a while. Feels like we might need to keep around those old NoCD exe files to replace these recompiled GOG ones.

Really annoyed by the fact that GOG modifies their files to the point that some of those retro games no longer work under XP or older OSes.
I think the "preservation" part needs to be addressed. Preserving something means keeping it in its original form. They need to provide a way for every installer to be able to rollback their changes. I know they can't provide every version of an installer for $$ reasons but at least give us a script to revert back. For years i wanted to revive my old Athlon XP 3200+ from 2005, this year finally made it work again. I have a K8N4-E Deluxe motherboard with 3 gigs of ram and a Geforce 6600LE 256 megs of VRAM. I really want to do a hybrid retro machine with it.. i have 12 slots for harddrives (4 IDE and 8 SATAs) with a silicon image raid chip onboard capable of doing hardware RAID5 and RAID10. I always wanted to build my own NAS to store my 1050 games from gog to preserve them locally. I was thinking of keeping my XP on a drive and using another drive for Linux + Open Mediavault. Creating the raid from XP (cos the documentation stated that under Linux the raid utilities only let you create 2TB volumes but under XP you have unlimited Volume size). After creating the raid both Open Mediavault and Windows XP can see the RAID to store all kind of crazy shit (i'm a digital hoarder).

PS: A cool idea could be that GOG uses something like Github for versioning so they can put the original games on that repo .. work there to make it future proof but at the same time being able to pull (on demand) the original unmodified files. Makes it easier to roll back bad changes also. I really don't know how they do things.

There is a simple solution. Avoid GOG und use ARCHIVE.ORG . Beside that I really think that the amount of available Gams on GOG has declined, or am I wrong here?

Purchased and tested some Games with my T42 WinXP R7500 today. All neogo (emu?) games do not work! MetalSlug Series, LastBlade, FatalFury2, KingOfFighters,ShockTroopers. They were relatively cheap so I don't mind thinking about a refund. Perhaps I can figure out what GOG has been broken on them by deleting or renaming files.

By the way, expendable works, but is not patched for EMBM support. If I copy these patched files over the game breaks.