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First post, by DosFreak

Posted on 2012-08-07, 23:44

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http://www.glidos.net/blood.html

I found this thread where it was noticed back in 2007: DOSBox and Glide
but I don't know if anyone has ever mentioned it to Paul or not.

I can understand providing an easy method to get Blood working under GliDOS but it isn't exactly legal and makes GliDOS look bad by providing warez on the site especially so now since you can buy it for $5.99 from GOG http://www.gog.com/gamecard/one_unit_whole_blood

and it also looks pretty strange providing a warez copy of a game but then asking $10 for GliDOS....

It should be a simple matter of changing the site to link to Blood at GOG and then providing a seperate download of the files needed to copy over for Glide to work.

Thoughts?

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Reply 1 of 6, by leileilol

Posted on 2012-08-07, 23:56

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It looks like you finally caught on to this! I pointed this out back in 2007.

leileilol wrote:
DosFreak wrote:
err, I believe the copy on the GliDOS site is the shareware version of Blood.

Nope. It's the "One Unit Whole Blood" bundle with Plasma Pak and Cryptic Passage, modified to promote a shareware product.

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Reply 2 of 6, by sliderider

Posted on 2012-08-07, 23:58

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If GOG has the distribution rights, then legally nobody else can host it so it should be taken down.

Reply 3 of 6, by Daedolon

Posted on 2012-08-07, 23:59

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And here I have been trying to contact all the official parties all these years, at least someone other than myself finally acknowledges it.

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Reply 4 of 6, by Zup

Posted on 2012-08-08, 08:35

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???

The download is only 27Mb, too small to be a "complete" Blood. Maybe it's only Glidos+Dosbox special build+Blood executables (that's still not legal).

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Reply 5 of 6, by robertmo

Posted on 2012-08-08, 08:39

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are you trying to start a project listing all this type of games on different sites? I guess many old games fans will help you. Maybe start a wiki page for that...

Reply 6 of 6, by leileilol

Posted on 2012-08-08, 10:52

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Zup wrote:
The download is only 27Mb, too small to be a "complete" Blood.

No movies.

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