here<\/a>, are smaller than a notebooks but larger than a PDA and run a full Windows (or Linux) operating system. The trade-off is that they offer lower-powered processors, less memory and storage, lower resolution (and smaller) screens, and no internal optical drives.<\/p>\nI went through the process of installing a number of games back when I got the HP2133, and ran into the issue of certain games needing a CD in the drive to function properly. Back when I had the Toshiba, I had my first experience with a ‘no CD’ program when I tried running ‘Mysteries of the Sith’. I have told that story before, but suffice it to say that in the last several years I have learned that the primary use of such files had little to do with CD protection or helping out those without built-in CD drives. So I do not use those programs any more on principal … but that left me with the problem of being unable to run the games without the CD. My next step was to do something that I find less distasteful – create a disk image and mount that using a CD emulator program. That takes up more disk space, and works fairly well for many games – so I used that for things like Baldur’s Gate, Divine Divinity and Arcanum. But some other games had problems with that solution, but I worked through most of them and abandoned the rest.<\/p>\n
Fast forward to today: I have sold off my HP2133 and bought a new (and more powerful) Lenovo S10 IdeaPad. So I start again with the installation of software including games … and the fun starts all over again. I begin by installing some staples – Neverwinter Nights with both expansions and all Premium Modules, Divine Divinity, Arcanum, Wizardry 8 and Baldur’s Gate. I also wanted to add Fallout and Fallout 2. But as I started fiddling with getting Fallout 2 installed I ran into problems. Eventually I got it loaded and created a disk image, but couldn’t get it running and didn’t have time – or desire – to fiddle around anymore.<\/p>\n
That was when I made my decision.<\/p>\n
I headed to GoodOldGames, added both Fallouts to my cart and clicked ‘buy’. Very quickly I had two ~500MB downloads working their way towards me. From there, I simply double-clicked and the games were quickly installed. They have a custom installer that checks the install file, then launches into a very simple installer that offers simple options and then quickly – and simply – installs the game. Once installed, there is no special requirement of needing the install file – I actually installed from a USB drive onto my Lenovo s10 without a single complaint.<\/p>\n
From there I was able to start the game from the icons on the desktop and it was just like launching the game any other way – it went through the intro movies and into the game. I have started both games and gotten through the first parts and into the ‘meat’ of the game without any issue. That is just the way things go with these games – I have heard only success stories so far; tales of folks who have had problems installing some of these games in the past but no issue with the GOG installer.<\/p>\n
I encourage you to go take a look – you can grab some great games from the past decade in a simple, single-file, DRM-free installer file for a very reasonable price – in fact, no game is more than $9.99! Take a look!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I love truth in advertising, and the guys from CD Projekt (responsible for bringing us The Witcher) were certainly upfront when creating their new site.\u00a0 The European publisher wanted to make a site that would charge a reasonable amount and give gamers older games that were out of circulation in a convenient, DRM-free package that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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I love truth in advertising, and the guys from CD Projekt (responsible for bringing us The Witcher) were certainly upfront when creating their new site.\u00a0 The European publisher wanted to make a site that would charge a reasonable amount and give gamers older games that were out of circulation in a convenient, DRM-free package that you can download forever.\u00a0 I *know* … so why are you still here!?!?<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/gog.jpg\")
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