Mike wrote:

The best part about this is that it gives you everything

Not exactly. No in-game CD audio, for starters.

leileilol wrote:

Mike wrote:

The best part about this is that it gives you everything

Not exactly. No in-game CD audio, for starters.

I wouldn't go that far as the CD audio tracks are included in the
gog.com release with OGG format music files, and the
cutscenes are present as well.

Are the videos included? And one thing that's very much needed is, the source code! 😁

temptingthelure wrote:

Are the videos included?

Yep. This surprised most current 'Blood fans' for obvious reasons.

which are?

I will grab this.

Only played the shareware blood never the full product.

temptingthelure wrote:

Are the videos included? And one thing that's very much needed is, the source code! 😁

Eureka and de ja vu 😀 and amen to that 😀 at least the engine source should be released 😀

I had never heard of GOG.com before, but my spouse just bought a downloadable copy of Master of Magic from them, and it works great, without any music glitches or having to load DOSBox first. It sounds like they work with game publishers to get worldwide licenses for old games (so they're NOT an "abandonware" site), which their programmers then tweak so they'll run under XP & Vista -- without having to load DOSBox first. I certainly don't mind paying the modest fee they charge (MOM was US$5.99) to get a "good old game" that runs smoothly on modern computers. Great stuff! 😎

I think you give GOG too much credit. They pre-configure and autoexec the game for you, but it is DOSBox that allows Master of Magic to "run smoothly on modern computers", make no mistake about that.

We thought it was probably DOSBox in there; it's just that with the GOG.com copies, one doesn't have to load DOSBox first, then load the game; also, this way the AUTOEXEC.BAT (or whatever) is preconfigured to run the game full-screen & with the sound just right. An individual gamer could do all this in DOSBox manually (if one already had a legal copy of the game), but it would be more work, plus you'd have the problem of acquiring a legal copy of the game (via eBay?) first. 😅 Downloading it from GOG.com is just way more convenient.

Blood was my favorite game many years ago. So I bought Blood from GOG.com, but....

Fist problem, audiotracks were really badly ripped, at the end of each track is a few seconds from beggining of next track. WTF? That's just amateurism.

Second problem, 96kbps OGG, it's a joke? I don't excepted a WAV or FLAC format, but this is really horrible quality in these days. Why they didn't use some high quality OGG's as a 225 VBR.

This is my first game with auditracks from GOG. If GOG guys usualy uses this horrible quality for their releases, then I don't wanna another game with audiotracks from their shop.

So, I'm really disaponted as an old fan of this game. It's still better to download some 1:1 copy of Blood from warez sites and then manually configure DOSbox than buy this stuff.

Igracek: I have high-quality VBR .mp3's sitting around my hard drive right now that would probably transcode to .ogg's very cleanly. Let me know if you want them zinged your way.

I think GOG is looking into fixing a problem with the ogg files. They too often add or improve the extra content they include with their games, so they might add 128kb OGGs. These games' re-releases are almost a new release by themselves, so they're by the most port a WIP.

Since Blood is on GOG, isn't it time for the Glidos site to remove its modified full version copy of One Unit Whole Blood already?