According to the readme:

"...This game was made in 1994. In 1999 we thought it might be a good idea to give
it free to the Internet community, especially adventure games lovers. Enjoy!..."

GOG is only 10 years late 😉

Sad thing about the GOG releases is everyone think that GOG made these games free even though they were free and widely available. (Don't know about this game).

For instance the free games @ ScummVM that they crusaded to get free and have been free forever and then GOG provides them and GOG gets the marketshare! heh.

Just like anything it pays to have ignorant users. 😀

I like GOG. Even though most of the frequent posters here are savvy enough to get the game to work, for many people that isn't the case and what GOG do makes these games available for them. They're not charging for the work that they've had to do to prepare the games for easy use and the fee that they charge for the non-freeware games is hardly excessive. Also, no draconian DRM (none at all, in fact).

Perhaps not significant to you and I, but they do provide an extra service for many people and they give stuff away for free. If that directs people to their site who then turn into paying customers, all I can say is: good for them. It's not like anybody's forcing them to publish these games and they're not forcing users to buy anything else either.

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I see they'll be releasing Far Cry as well. I can scarcely believe that it's been 10 years since I worked for Crytek. FC was just in development then. I remember testing the first tech-demos on my then state-of-the-art GeForce 3.
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